I knew nothing about the show but the theme music, so any nostalgia I had for it was immediately satisfied. It was something like a 30-year gap from show to first MI film so from my perspective it was as much an “inspired by” as any sort of feature treatment using a well-known established property.  Given the series’…

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Exactly. GWH had the locales including the Baskin and Robbins (you like apples) in Harvard Square that (sadly) no longer exists. I mean Will Hunting rode the Red Line on the T. You could have told me (beyond the terrible accents) that The Departed took place in any other city (Chicago, NYC, LA, etc.) and I would have…

I thought the exact same thing. If you’re gonna also-mention Mystic River, you have to include GWH. 

GWH is definitely more “Massachusetts” than The Departed, which was only partially filmed in the state. 

I skipped right over Massachusetts. Holy shit. That’s *egregious.*

I’d put in either The Florida Project or Red Rocket for Florida, because those are really great movies and legit Florida.

it came out last year didn’t it?

I thought Terrifier 2 was nowhere near as good as 1, BUT as far as this list goes, it came out last year.

The story of the Titanic is often portrayed as being a parable of Man’s hubris and how they arrogantly declared that the ship was unsinkable doomed it.

What do you mean, not run by smart people? The people running this company are rich. You can’t get rich unless you’re really smart.

The great jazz singer Tierney Sutton recorded an entire album of Sting covers, and she explained in a concert I attended that she was reluctant to do “Every Breath You Take” for the “creepy/stalking” vibe of it, and how would a female singer deal with it? And one night she was talking with her band, and they’re all of…

The conventional take on “Every Breath” seems to have gone from “It’s so romantic!” (It’s supposed to be creepy, you idiot) to “It’s so creepy!” (It’s supposed to be, you idiot).

I made it to the second to last episode of the first season and I just couldn’t anymore. And I never quit on shows before I give them a full season.

“It’s just you and me, Clovis” is the closing line of the terrible Sleepwalkers and one I say continually knowing that I’m the only one who recognizes it.

I came to comment the same thing.  Event Horizon is a classic, in the pantheon of space horror movies.

I literally did my dissertation on White Bear (and almost Shut up and Dance) and massively agree with you. They’re perhaps the most confrontational and complex episodes of the series - and that’s why they work. Saying that they have no moral centre is absolutely ridiculous - just because it doesn’t exist in the world…

For me “Shut Up & Dance” and “White Bear” are the most Black Mirrorish episodes they’re certainly the two that lingered with me the longest after watching.

I don’t understand the hate for “Shut up and Dance” and the meh-ness for “White Bear.” To me, these are the best because they ask you to spend an entire episode sympathizing for these people who are going through something grueling. They’re being tortured but an unseen force while you get more and more invested in…

metalhead is one of the worst black mirror episodes and national anthem is way to low on this list.