I search on Bing all the time. My phone makes me search for Google on Bing before I can search on Google, so usually I don't bother.

Certainly it is, and my eleven year old loves it.

Certainly it is, and my eleven year old loves it.

Very interesting theory! I've been operating under the assumption that there are actual fluctuations in time, but what you are describing would indeed fit.

You're reading it right, but someone who found this project to be heinous could also pay the admission fee and purposely try to interfere, in the same way as those protestors who throw cream pies or hold up banners at various events. How would they be able to tell one paying customer from another?

Why would that lessen the impact? I think just the opposite—making it more real and nuanced would have increased it. For Brooker to advance the thesis "everyone would be totally on board with this" invites people to object "waitasec, hold on now".

My initial reaction was to really love it, but I think you do make a good point. If they showed that at least some people were protesting, interfering, etc., it would have been more nuanced and much stronger.

That's fascinating, because pre-twist I thought it was kind of cliched and not up to usual Black Mirror standards. It was the twist that made it, for me.

Yeah, as I said upthread they should have at least shown that the park was controversial, that some people protested it. We live in a world, after all, where executions of the most heinous criminals are protested by candlelight vigils, and a state like Nebraska of all places just outlawed the death penalty.

I gave the episode an A, but in fairness I think judgment does have a point. Wouldn't there be people protesting this "park"? That probably should have been shown, at least briefly.

"Of course it's wrong to torture a woman who is basically a babe in the woods and who seems not to have an evil or deranged bone in her body."

I didn't see a twist coming either. Which meant that, like Jane Simon of the Mirror, "about a third of the way through I found myself thinking it really wasn’t up to Brooker's usual sky-high standards." If the plot was just what it seemed to be, it was kind of a cheesy, tired trope. Yet it wasn't so lame that I was…

The showrunner insisted in an interview I heard that everything will be explained. Some are even saying this will happen by episode five.

Ehhhh…those are both at one end. The wrong end, over with Battlestar Galactica and Siberia (am I the only one who watched that all the way through?).

Ahhh….right.

That one's not ringing a bell. Which episode was it from?

This is the right answer. She doesn't love or despise him. She thinks he's really weird, and I don't think she's attracted to him; but she does feel pity for him from time to time.

Yeah, I fear this could be like "Californication": a perfect one-season show that comes back and taints its legacy. But I will still probably tune in if it does ever come back (the renewal announcement was almost a year ago, and I see no premiere date at Wikipedia).

So it's never okay to critique the media's influence on adolescents and young adults? For example, the use of extremely skinny models and Photoshop, that destroys young women's self image? If that's your stance, I simply disagree.

Agree about the Remnants, and the stupid "spin the bottle" app. A point in Sonia's review that I particularly liked, on that subject: