NP - Black Mirror Season 3

[David Morris]

It dawned on me that this kind of writing is very, very similar to
Pynchon's self-disparaged Mercy and Mortality in Venice.  Very immature
morality scold masked in potentially deeper concerns.  Maybe called Satire
because it has a mix of a "funny but dark" punchline ending.  There is a
very good reason that Pynchon renounced MMIV.

I much prefer the funny/dark of Flannery O'Conner... And GR.

David Morris

On Monday, October 31, 2016, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Once again "Shut Up and Dance" a massively ham-fisted morality scold that
> DRAGS one painfully, slowly through its predictable paces in barely
> believable scenarios.  At most, it should have been cut in length by half.
> I HAD to fast forward past about half of it.  Do you really call this good?
>
> David Morris
>
> On Monday, October 24, 2016, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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