The pause before remembering that Wild exists is my everything.

Dead people haunting the living in hallucinations or dreams is such a tired narrative device. Six Feet Under was the only show to do this where it didn’t remind me of American Werewolf in London.

sooo........

precisely what i was thinking.

I found social frats to be very useful in college, in that it made it easier for me to spot tools and morons.

Funny how the hammer came down on an Asian-American fraternity when all of these white boys are out here violating the rules of their colleges and fraternities left and right.

See this is exactly why my partner (full-time gamer) flat-out refuses to watch it, and in his case I find it pretty eyeroll-worthy. Really? You’re gonna miss out on some pretty spectacular, emotionally impactful storytelling . . . because you feel personally defensive when old people complain about kids and their…

Arkangel: Sara was part of the testing group for Arkangel, and the psychologist Sara sees when she’s nine or so says that the program never got off the ground, because it caused the kinds of problems in other test subjects that Sara was seeing him for in the first place. So there is no generation of kids who’ve grown…

I have friends who watch their kids through GPS when they drive and shows them what web sites they visit during the day. It’s not too far of a leap to go from where we are now tech wise to the kind of technology in Arkangel and the desire for people to use it.

I agree! I think they started to touch on this when the kid was at school and the other kids would ignore her because they knew her mom would be watching, but I was hoping they’d go in the direction of what a society would look like with a generation that had grown up not being exposed to stress/danger/unpleasantness.…

What I liked most about “USS Callister” is that, in the end, the group is set-up in the classic Star Trek scenario: nothing but a vast, unexplored galaxy to venture into. That by being such a merciless control freak, Daly was missing out on truly living the Space Fleet experience, and his former captives go on to live…

I have heard parents say things that lead me to believe that they think their children should never experience anything negative—no one should tell them no, they should never be scared, never cry, nothing. I be some of them would love a version of this technology.

Metalhead was just bad. No idea what the world was meant to be or what happened, just that some weird small dog robots were somehow invincible killing machines even though in the end they’re easily killed by a standard shotgun.

I could totally see some of the parents at my kid’s school implanting that device in their child’s head. They seem to be obsessed that little Aidan or Maddysyn will be abducted if they let them out of sight for more than 3 minutes. I’ve stopped attending PTA meetings because of these worrywarts.

Loved “Hang the DJ.” It was surprisingly moving and poignant to me.

I didn’t think Arkangel was a particularly strong episode but it did get me thinking about the nature of fear and children. The “content blocker” feature seemed so dangerous. Fear keeps you alive! I want my toddler to be scared of things like vicious dogs and train tracks. It’s your brain saying “Stay Away! Stay…

This series of the show wasn’t very good with Brooker clearly not having had the time to do his best work (I’ve outlined its troubled development and some other thoughts here: http://observationdeck.kinja.com/thoughts-on-black-mirror-series-four-1821682617).

Metalhead lost me with the final reveal. Risked three people’s lives for that? Bullshit.

Those pills can be obtained over the counter in many places these days. So yes her mom could probably go get whatever the near future necessary dose needed is. In this fictional universe it probably could be effective in a smoothie. If her child surveillance app can detect narcotics in a moment I’ll believe her doctor…