Other media are suggesting that it’s set in the Ozarks, and Ali is playing an Arkansas detective. Which is it?

Do Americans have some sort of hang-up about Indian food? I've always wondered. It's a go-to joke on shitty sitcoms (and every Seth Macfarlane show) that Indian food smells terrible and completely wrecks you. Living in Australia, it's a pretty normal thing - you get it in the food court for lunch at work; you eat it…

Not wanting to nitpick, but I'm pretty sure The Phantom Menace was the highest grossing film worldwide in 1999.

It's definitely Australia. The landscape, the trees, the accent - plus the church was marked Mary MacKillop Anglican Church, which is confusing because MacKillop is an Australian Catholic saint, not an Anglican.

Also, for a way more interesting take on 'climate change has ruined the world and corporations run rampant', check out The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Boy, this really looks like it has everything I hate about this kind of sci-fi. But what it especially has is one of those way-too-rigid class divides. The real world doesn't work that way and it never had. Even in really class-dominated society, lines still blur - people move up and down the social ladder, and mix…

I guess we remember Lost differently, because I thought seasons 4 and 5 of that show were its high point.

I think this episode suffered a little bit by shifting out of Black Mirror's comfort zone. The show is called science fiction a lot, but it's not really - there's nothing futuristic or otherworldly about episodes like 'The National Anthem' or 'Shut Up and Dance'. And it's not about technology as a whole, really. It…

I personally think it's a little more bittersweet than sweet. Yes, Yorkie and Kelly get to live and love in San Junipero. But they also kind of don't - the episode shows us that very clearly. They're just blinking little lights in some impersonal, robot-controlled server farm in the middle of nowhere. Kelly and Yorkie…

I'd say it's top 3 for me, along with 'Be Right Back' and 'The National Anthem'.

What struck me is how easily it could have become a typical Black Mirror episode - it could have focused on the people at the Quagmire, and what a mixed blessing immortality (or more specifically, an afterlife) can be. It could have pulled the rug out by having Kelly die in the real world before she could pass over.…

Yeah, maybe. In Australia, IPAs are pretty much synonymous with craft brewing. So if you're into anything other than mass-produced lagers, you're into IPAs by default.

The strong dislike for IPAs here feels weird to me. Is it an American thing?

I wonder if this episode would have been better if the entire thing was a build up to Cooper being plugged in - way more about he mystery of the game itself, and the horrors it might contain. And then his phone goes off and renders him braindead, and that's just the whole thing. As it was, it felt like the sort of…

I don't see a lot of overlap between the game in this show and the one in Rick and Morty.

I agree very much, but as against that, that's kind of the same ending as Inception

I think the series works better if you pretend that each installment is inspired by the others, but that they exist independent of one another. Trying to match them all up can only lead to ruin. Like, wasn't Big Boss originally meant to be a US operative? But then suddenly it turns out that he was a mercenary for most…

Eh, I don't know. The whole Metal Gear series is so confusing and overwritten (both in the sense that it's verbose, and in the sense that the internal continuity is being constantly changed by newer installments) that missing a bit off the end didn't really bother me all that much. Looking back, while the series was…

Hmm. That still doesn't make a lot of sense, but okay.

I'm more impressed at how many different crime syndicates have managed to infiltrate the NYPD without there apparently being much overlap.