Oh honey.

That's only that episode. That episode is an outlier

The rest of the show is pessimistic dystopia at best.

Oh I hadn't seen those, good to know!

Hang the DJ just makes me wonder how much was spent on data centres compared to swiping left/right

There needs to be more mention of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate

Had it happen with love death and robots too. I think if there's a new season out it starts you on the 1st ep of the newest "complete" season, which is really annoying.

Its probably because she was episode 1 of a different season not season 1

edit: actually you may be right others are saying similar stuff

The first episode for me was the VR fighting game (to avoid more spoilers), which didn't exactly motivate me to watch more

Honestly, the second episode "Fifteen Million Merits" was the most soul crushing thing I had ever watched, the first episode paled in comparison. Then again, I'm not a pig so clearly Peppa would be a little more traumatized.

It's like Requiem for a Dream. Great movie, would recommend it to anyone except my elderly mother, am not gonna fuckin ever watch it a second time.

It used to be dark scifi, now it's horror.

The one with the pig.

And not just the chat.

I think it was writer Daniel M. Lavery who described Black Mirror as, "What if cell phone... but too much!"

To me that’s always been the point of the show.

Take some real world thing and push it to the point of being dystopian.

In the “Facebook likes” one, you can make a connection to social credit systems IRL.

The explanation is applying a “slippery slope” fallacy for pretty much every single concept.

FWIW, showrunner Charlie Brooker says that the starting point for every episode is finding an idea he thinks is funny

The explanation of “how we got there” is all around you. Every day.

and what a fantastic first dystopian scifi those first seasons were (for me)

They are but since we don't get a lot of true scifi media ( I would describe most as space fantasy ) I'll take what I can get

Are you familiar with the idea of parables? Sometimes people just want a way to present their ideas without having to go full-Tolkein and go into WAYYY much more detail than is strictly necessary or believeable. You're entitled to your opinion, I'm not gonna be offended or anything that you clearly don't like a show I personally haven't watched in years, I just think that Black Mirror is (most of the time) clearly more concerned with "what if" rather than "how would"

Black Mirror is about placing the mirror to society (hence the title). If you find the show childish, maybe because humans are childish?

there always seemed to be significant obstacles in getting there from where we are that are never explored or explained away.

Just my opinion but i don't think it matters. Since the show is about putting the mirror onto society and how immature (and cruel) we are, my impression is that getting to the dystopian aspects is because we dropped the ball and allowed ourselves to submit to the darker and physical manifestation of our psyche, which we see in technology spying or trying to kill us, or torturing a person over and over just to feel good about ourselves by inflicting what we perceive to be "justice".

The author said in an interview that it was a filter to get the public he wants for the series. No idea if that's post-facto rationalization, though.

Anyway, Netflix changed their entire system so that they could order that one show differently. It's the last episode there.

Literally watched it when it first aired. Never watched another episode after even though it's the kind of thing that should be my cup of tea and I hear so much good about it. Whenever I hear people talk about it I think I should try it again, then forget about it.

Doesn't convey any meaning whatsoever??

what did you watch it?