Black Mirror(UK) Season 2
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Definitely trying to split the middle in satire with a level of realism, and the realism side was so realistically far-fetched it was not plausible. The population would sway their opinion to hope the PM would fuck a pig on live TV? Right. Even as satire it was definitely not a shining example. Was able to get in half of the 2nd episode, it did seem better.
edit: Fucking David Cameron. Ok fair enough. Regardless, the idea that the incident would play out the way it did on national television is ridiculous. Even good satire needs to hold to realism, or there is no buy in. In this day and age of terrorism there is no way the government would let their Prime Minister do some shit like that.
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The following episode,15 Million Merits, is probably the best of the entire series.
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more parables.
have people not heard of The Twilight zone, The Outer limits, or Tales from the Darkside?
Exercises in exploring human nature, and morality.
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I don't even get the problem. If that same thing happened in America, I guaran-fucking-tee every single one of us and every single person we know would watch it on tv and think it was hysterical, at least until it started actually happening. That's kind of the point, it's a funny joke that is actually horrifying in reality.
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My issue lies more with the fact that with the way we treat terrorism, it would never happen in the first place. To me it was completely, unrealistic. I don't see any major government ever caving to something like that. The actual act of him fucking the pig I didn't really find "haunting". Rather hilarious, just because of the situation as a whole. Probably comes from the fact that I could never imagine that happening.
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That Terrorism style episode was really twisted. The one where the girl wakes up in an apartment then has to run for her life from these crazy people in masks and stuff.
This show is frightening, if you think about things like that happening in a "real life" situation.
This show is frightening, if you think about things like that happening in a "real life" situation.
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It is one-offs. There has not been (up to this point, who knows what the Netflix long season will do) any sort of story that is told between the episodes.
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It's always kinda funny when you spend so much time watching an actor and have no idea that he was English after watching him in a movie (main character in second episode, American accent in Sicario). Remember telling a family member that Idris Elba was indeed English. Blew his mind after seeing him as Stringer Bell forever.
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