hydroazuanacaine
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this is on netflix. looks like the first season came out in 2011. i started hearing about a couple weeks ago. my siblings watch it, the youngest one told me it's really good but i wouldn't like it because it's pulp. he's right; it's garbage. i'm going to be embarrassed in a week or two when i tell him i've watched them all.
it's moral tales about technology and the lack of self-awareness it facilitates. black mirror, like a screen/monitor (see irony here). the messages are all really basic. things people know are wrong but continue to do anyway. such as over-indulging in escapism, popularity-fueled vanity, and cruelty perpetuated by diffusion of responsibility. so it being any good depends on its iteration or "update" of these morals.
it embraces this post-modernism. clearly paying ode to The Twilight Zone. but the stories are bad. cheesy and predictable. keeping in vein with The Twilight Zone. something about it is very watchable. it does have defined style and tone. maybe it's going for mastery of form. i've only seen a few episodes so far. but i think it's just a trashy albeit entertaining show. similar to genre-horror in that it's going for an almost tactile sensation, like your spine is cold. that the cast and story a fresh each episode is a big help. because you're done by the time each one is over. they're longer than the usual tv show, but shorter than a movie -- adding to the watchability.
anyone else watching or through the series? i'm not watching them in any order. someone mentioned something gross that's included in the first episode, so i skipped it and have been all over the place since. just finished the one about the boy who's blackmailed. probably the silliest one yet. on to the next.
it's moral tales about technology and the lack of self-awareness it facilitates. black mirror, like a screen/monitor (see irony here). the messages are all really basic. things people know are wrong but continue to do anyway. such as over-indulging in escapism, popularity-fueled vanity, and cruelty perpetuated by diffusion of responsibility. so it being any good depends on its iteration or "update" of these morals.
it embraces this post-modernism. clearly paying ode to The Twilight Zone. but the stories are bad. cheesy and predictable. keeping in vein with The Twilight Zone. something about it is very watchable. it does have defined style and tone. maybe it's going for mastery of form. i've only seen a few episodes so far. but i think it's just a trashy albeit entertaining show. similar to genre-horror in that it's going for an almost tactile sensation, like your spine is cold. that the cast and story a fresh each episode is a big help. because you're done by the time each one is over. they're longer than the usual tv show, but shorter than a movie -- adding to the watchability.
anyone else watching or through the series? i'm not watching them in any order. someone mentioned something gross that's included in the first episode, so i skipped it and have been all over the place since. just finished the one about the boy who's blackmailed. probably the silliest one yet. on to the next.
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