NP - Black Mirror Season 3

[David Morris]

Wow! Your take is WAY more than mine.  Yes. It is our Twylight Zone, which
was always spotty. And TZ was usually best as a spoof, not as IMPORTANT.
The universal plastic surgery episode was an exception.  The "Nose Dive"
premier was a big riff on Facebook, Twitter, et al, ubiquity, extended to
its rule of the world of commerce with a single ruler become law (a dubious
premise, at best). Still, it worked, but was too long.

David Morris



On Monday, October 24, 2016, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:

> You have got to be fucking kidding me.
>
> This series has included some of the most vital, successful, and I
> would (and will) argue IMPORTANT works of fiction produced so far in
> the 21st century. They will be milestones and touchstones by which
> future generations will mark, measure and compare all future works of
> socially aware speculative fiction, not unlike the way Twilight Zone
> informed so much that succeeded it.
>
> I mean, there's a reason why the contemporary Chinese intelligentsia
> have taken to it like no other Western product before
>
> Anybody else here have an opinion on Brooker's incredible series? And
> has anybody here other than myself seen his series Nathan Barley,
> which was equally groundbreaking? Unlike Black Mirror, which is
> heralded, Nathan Barley was ignored. I think mostly because it was a
> slashing expose of the kind of people who review such things for a
> living, but what do I know? I was only one of them at the time...
>
> yer old pal Jerky
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:32 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > No Black Mirror episodes wear well, except maybe the pig-fuck one. All
> are
> > essentially morality scolds masquerading as insight.  But what really
> kills
> > them for me is that they are all half-hour stories stretched to a full
> hour,
> > making them extremely predictable and very boring.
> >
> > David Morris, constantly fighting fast forward urge.
>
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