NP - Black Mirror Season 3

[Mark Thibodeau]

"Shut Up and Dance" is an absolutely devastating meditation on the use
and abuse of shame by agents of radical transparency in an era of
omnipresent technocratic surveillance. A jet black, synapse-scorching
satirical masterpiece.

Jerky

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:31 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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> 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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