They won’t let you watch TV now? What if a Tom Cruise movie is on?

I know that this was a “happy” ending on paper, but I wish they’d made the characters seem more happy about it.

Yep.  I had no idea about the show going into National Anthem except a good friend told me I absolutely had to watch it.  Blown away.  Then watched Fifteen Million Merits and was kinda underwhelmed so didn’t return to it for a few months.  Waldo Moment is definitely the worst but Fifteen Million Merits isn’t much…

I knew very little of Black Mirror before getting into it (right before season 4 was released), and being the color-in-the-lines guy I am, I started at season 1 episode 1. The only thing I knew was the show had to deal with technology and it usually didn’t have happy endings.

I mean, she’s right in the strictest sense, but the word “indefinitely” in terms of music tends to be understood as “me/my band is done unless/until something changes” instead of “hey, going on a standard between album/tour break”.

It’s a strange use of the adverb “indefinitely”, but I’m glad she’s just taking a break!

The kids goes to really extreme lengths, hence Jerome Flynn’s skepticism about the blackmail material being sufficient. The reveal at the end makes it fit better.

I love Metalhead too, but I can understand people who enjoy Black Mirror mainly for the pop philosophy aspect of it, not liking it. There is very little of that; it’s basically an action movie. An extremely well made action movie of the type that scores highly with movie critics: taut editing, minimal dialog,…

San Junipero calls its shot by showing the server room during the upbeat ending; I don’t get the impression it’s saying “this is actually sad,” but more just reminding you that this happy, vibrant couple driving into the sunset are actually just some ones and zeroes. Feels more like it’s saying “does it matter that…

That’s one of the things I really liked about the episode actually. The happy ending is undercut by the thought of the “cookies” being tortured forever. The ending of San Junipero is similar. It’s happy, but you realize that they’re just ones and zeros on a server somewhere so does it actually matter?

Hang the DJ is real lousy. Especially when, in the same season, the idea that cloning a consciousness and throwing it into a simulation for your own romantic fantasies is real messed up (SS Callister), it’s weird that “we created a bunch of you’s to torture through dissatisfying love lives so you can have a pain-free…

I puzzle over whether “Shut up...” is really what I’d call a happy ending. I mean, those “people” in the simulation seemed to be conscious entities, invoked into life, and made to suffer and struggle, BY A FUCKING DATING APP! How is that any better than the life for those on board the Callister?

I’m getting the feeling that, like the MGS games, this will be a game that’s more fun for me to watch than to play.  I don’t like doing that most of the time, but the MGS games are fun as hell to watch and shitty to play(in my opinion anyhow).

While recent events have definitely made Waldo Moment more memorable, it’s still a surprisingly shoddy episode that critically lacks a proper main character and kind of just fizzles out it’s fairly simple premise. The dystopia ending was particularly jarring.

I dunno; prophecy isn’t in and of itself a measure of quality. Yeah, Trump and Brexit and all, but “The Waldo Moment” is still pretty flawed. 

I feel like “The National Anthem” should rate higher. As a statement of intent for what was then a brand new series, it’s jawdropping: the dramatic equivalent of walking into a bar and immediately punching the biggest guy there. And then it actually pulls it off.

My top five in some order:
Fifteen Million Merits
Be Right Back
San Junipero
USS Callister
The Entire History of You

My bottom five in some order:
Crocodile (without a doubt, the worst episode with the stupidest twist)
The National Anthem
The Waldo Moment
Arkangel
Playtest

I agree that the tone of the movie felt completely wrong. It made me appreciate the shoestring 1980s BBC production, which at least felt right. Merge the BBC tone with the movie actors and maybe it would be been special.

I heard somewhere that KM stormed out of the Showgirls premiere and said purple monkey dishwasher.