I know you’re being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but I disagree. Black Mirror isn’t a post-singularity series, there’s no HAL or Skynet. The villains are very much human.
“Hang the DJ” is probably the other episode for you.
Was that a thread here, or was it on the main article itself? (I looked for one here, but thanks to the amazing and intuitive layout of Kinja, good luck finding anything except bargains on socks, underwear, and bluetooth shit.)
I wish he had quit a decade ago as well. I love Letterman, and have since I was a kid. But I got so burned out on the late night format that from about age 16 onwards I pretty much never watched. (Ditto for Colbert’s show—he’s great, but late night is just not the best use of anyone’s talents, except maybe Jimmy…
Forget novelty flasks. They’re never convincing, and people will wonder why the hell you have binoculars anyway. Metal flasks are also a no-go; they’ll clank at inopportune moments, and the sound of the screw-cap is a dead giveaway. Plastic flask, if you must, but if anyone spots it, there’s no denying it.
They certainly didn’t help.
Sounds easy enough, but then they throw in anxiety at no extra cost, to sweeten the deal, and I defy ANYBODY to say no to that.
I struggled for a long, long time. Post elementary school, I don’t honestly think I can point to a time where I didn’t have depression. I didn’t know anything else, so I just kind of assumed that’s how everybody felt and was supposed to feel. People who claimed not to were either lying or oblivious, and people who…
Of course not. By then he would be collecting his pension and chasing squirrels at an unnamed relative’s upstate farm.
The Death of Stalin finally, surprisingly came to my suburban multiplex. I enjoyed it immensely. It took a few minutes for the lack of Russian accents to not seem weird (just because it’s convention, not because Russian characters speaking English in a Russian accent is actually any less weird), but it was clearly the…
What’s the point of a world safe for democracy if it’s also safe for instant coffee?
This loses all the complex eroticism of the un-remastered original.
Don’t get me wrong, even though it doesn’t really affect my use case, it definitely sucks. I will certainly bump into that wall eventually.
I was a little bummed when I got the big “YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN THIS MOVIE” gray-out. Then when I thought about it some more, the only movies I’ve re-watched in the last year were Dunkirk & Blade Runner, and both of those my second viewing was at an IMAX, which was never covered anyway.
My favorite part of “Are You Lonesome Tonight” is that the soprano backup singer doesn’t miss a beat, and thr band keeps going, which just seems to make Elvis lose it all the more.
I personally don’t buy the “communal experience” argument. I think it’s just one of those things that networks insisted on, since no one was ever going to get fired for doing what had always been done. M*A*S*H famously lobbied against a laugh track but was overruled, and that’s going back to the 70s. I’m sure they…
Louder + Faster = I’m Dying Up Here
