There is an English folk story called Lady Godiva, in which the titular noblewoman makes a deal with an evil lord to riide naked on her horse through the streets of London in return for taxes being waived for the poor. In the story Lady Godiva was so loved and respected by the common folk that, despite her famous beauty, everyone stayed indoors to avoid seeing her naked, letting her maintain her dignity. IMO "The National Anthem"" episode is an inversion of this story. People were asked not to watch the broadcast, but everyone did. And because everyone was watching it, no-one realised the hostage had been released until it was too late for the PM.

@kevdoe3360

Ай бұрын

Isn't that where "peeping Tom" comes from? A guy taking a peep at her?

@yvonnesanders4308

Ай бұрын

Internet has become the new knitting gallery at the guillotine

@YearRoundHibernater

Ай бұрын

Lady Godiva was a real figure in history, although the riding naked through the streets likely never happened. She was wife of the Earl of Mercia like in the story and was known for caring for the poor, several monasteries have records of donations and gifts from her helping them recover from Viking raids. The story is she rode through Coventry naked to stop her husband raising the taxes, everyone looked away apart from one of the townsfolk and that's where the phrase peeping Tom comes from.

@sleeper-cassie

Ай бұрын

The story includes one citizen named Thomas who cheated and looked at the nude Lady, which is where we get the phrase “peeping Tom”. In the version I heard, he bragged about what he saw, so the town formed a mob and blinded him.

@sarahhughes4437

Ай бұрын

You left out that she fucked horses

The real genius about Black Mirror is that no matter the fancy tech it introduces, the stories are always ultimately about the flaws of humanity, not the technology. I can’t wait to follow you through the series of this amazing show. I really hope you do the Bandersnatch one too!!!

"What the fuck is wrong with people?" You've just asked the question that is the backbone to this show.

Can't wait for Simone's reaction to USS Callister.

@Scoobay

Ай бұрын

Me neither. It’ll be a minute, though they’re just about to start season 3 and then a new TV show after.

@COFF2HIGH

Ай бұрын

I love Jesse Plemons in that.

@jculver1674

Ай бұрын

That one and White Christmas are the ones that really get me.

@Moritz19081980

Ай бұрын

By far the best episode.

@TheDramakiddo

Ай бұрын

completely agree. my favorite episode

George "The phone screen is a black mirror?? Like when it's turned off? Why would anyone do that??" Exactly the type of guy this show is made for 😂

@jhornacek

Ай бұрын

Mostly when the phone is in locked-mode, not just turned off.

“I really don’t trust this show”. Good instincts

One really interesting bit in The Entire History of You that I'd never noticed until this reaction is how Jonas's girlfriend, the one without the "Grain", has trouble getting the cops to come to the house when he's assaulting Jonas. After calling them to say she's witnessing a serious assault, in the background she says "I don't have a Grain Feed to throw you! I told you, I don't have Grain." 48:00. It sounds like when you call 911 they would automatically just want you to show them what you're seeing, which makes obvious sense, but also seems to mean they won't believe you so easily if you can't show them.

@matthewfarrer8395

29 күн бұрын

And rather prescient about the way the tech seeps into every aspect of life, until something that seemed like an optional luxury at first becomes indispensable because so many other parts of life just assume you have it and act accordingly. Like a business or service saying “we don’t bother with a shopfront or website, just use our app on your phone!”.

@trappestarrgaming3422

29 күн бұрын

Honestly I think that's a good thing 2 many ppl filing fake reports and stuff

@mattgarrett2583

29 күн бұрын

@@trappestarrgaming3422 Dude, someone can force you to delete an event.. so the woman without the grain is the only witness if both parties delete it.. so you purge a guys memories after robbing them, then purge your own after you leave 500 bucks in your coat pocket then you're that guy that just randomly forgets they have 500 bucks in their pocket every single day they go outside and can't figure out why their knuckles are always broken

@trappestarrgaming3422

29 күн бұрын

@@mattgarrett2583 ok but you still have the memory of sumbody making you delete the other memory tho so their still evidence. Not 2 mention if you delete the memory of putting money in your pocket that's more of a you thing. If the person refuses to delete it what are u gonna do kill them? That leaves more evidence and I'm sure he givt has ways to get that shit back even if your dead. No way any govt would allow this witout some type of control. Plus u gotta hope nobody sees you doing it. 1 person walks by they can zoom in and clean up the picture it's so much they can do

An extra bit of possible tragedy to The Entire History of You: the lady at the dinner party was said to be lucky she didn't go blind when her grain got ripped out. Then he rips his out at the end and it cycles through a bunch of images and cuts to black. Maybe cause it was the end of the episode and that's how episodes end. Or maybe cause those were the last things he ever saw.

Simone's looks of horror during the first episode were gd hilarious

Can't believe that first episode is nearly 13 years old. Love Black Mirror. Simone, there's a certain forth season episode I'm sure you'd enjoy.

@AFMountaineer2000

29 күн бұрын

USS Callister?

@that.ll_do_pig

29 күн бұрын

That episode is definitely in my top three ​@@AFMountaineer2000

@firstsurname7099

27 күн бұрын

Forth or fourth (and forth)?

Holy shiiiid.. I can't believe someone is finally reacting to this. This show is clearly one of my favorite anthology TV shows. The special guests. The characters. The twists. The tech... and especially it's consciousness and ability to satire on current topics with just a pinch of near-futuristic ingenuity. A pleasant afternoon click!

Commenting of the line "if it gives brings you joy, its not wasted" regarding buying virtual stuff for avatars. I think the episode is questioning why it gives you joy. Is it actually joy or a empty dopamine rush meant as a distraction. I'm not singling out game purchases the same could be said for most consumerism.

Best part about this series is that Charlie drops hella breadcrumbs that proves [even tho he insisted at first that each episode is an anthology] that this universe IS related almost in every episode... for instance the news ticker thingy in the pilot mentions cutting edge things that are coming up, then in a future episode that very same cutting edge thing is featured... makes rewatching fun, because how would you know when it's the first time you've seen the show. All part of his marketing plan I'm sure.

I’m so unbelievably excited to start this journey with y’all (as a KZread subscriber) thanks for uploading this on KZread guys!!

@kayleemariee239

Ай бұрын

right?! my fav reactors watching my fav show 💕💕 love it !!

@xXBenutzer235Xx

29 күн бұрын

They are starting Season 3 on Patreon in 2 days. Cant wait for it, its easily my favorite Season :)

@Invinci-NeD

29 күн бұрын

@@kayleemariee239 and now we get s2 right away aswell… WHATTA WIN!!!

@Invinci-NeD

29 күн бұрын

@@xXBenutzer235Xx I think I’d 100% agree (my favourite episode is Playtest)

@xXBenutzer235Xx

27 күн бұрын

@@Invinci-NeD I gotta go with Hated in the Nation I think. Incredible Episode but I think all Episodes in S3 are insane.

This isn't the easiest show to try and guess/predict your way through. You'll be exhausted before the season is half over. Best to watch and just let it happen.

@existenceisrelative

Ай бұрын

It's bri'ish though, so their seasons don't use halves. It's all metric. Best you can do is estimate a good 9/16ths of a season, and _then_ be exhausted.

@nutjobification

Ай бұрын

They won't. All reactors do is try to guess what's going to happen next

@hrishikeshXXV

29 күн бұрын

George cant handle that. He has to show off how his "quirky" brain works and how he's intelligent. Typical pseudo-intellectuals lmao

@David-cg1lh

29 күн бұрын

​@@hrishikeshXXVwhat do you mean?

@TheSofkujepanen

29 күн бұрын

@@hrishikeshXXVyeah, god forbid this youtube reactor dares to open his mouth and tell us what he’s thinking. It’s not like that’s pretty much his job. You’re so right, it would be so much better if he just shut up and watched this in silence while sometimes saying “wow” “damn” “that’s crazy” “ok”! We’re here just for the most braindead and surface level commenting with minimal reacting!

for me, the time adjustment in White Christmas is what gives me nightmares still

@zhen3142

28 күн бұрын

Best episode of the series

@LethalWalou

27 күн бұрын

The actual scare part is that they are trying to make that happen now in real life too, for criminals to serve their sentence in seconds.

@BClarke

16 күн бұрын

Yes! That one really affected me. So many episodes circle around the feeling of helplessness, and that moment at the end of "White Christmas" was the crystallization of that fear, compounded by the unforgiving element of time. Gives me chills even now.

I remember back when this first came out, when it was just a new Charlie Brooker show on Channel 4, before it became a big worldwide Netflix thing

@aidanrock8719

Ай бұрын

"I member back in my day" ahh post I joke though I am the same way, it was great trying to explain the first episode to people

@RBernsCarter

Ай бұрын

It is honestly one of the greatest television shows to ever come out of the UK

@TheCulturalBomb

Ай бұрын

Brooker is still 🐐. Miss his wipe shows

@Cynicayke

Ай бұрын

And that's why the episodes are split into parts, because it used to have ads in between acts!

@ge2719

Ай бұрын

back before it turned into total crap.... i member

Charlie Brooker: "Here's the dream tech you thought you wanted...oops, it's nightmare tech!".

Dear Simone, we all are thankful for your current existence!

Yeah, when I first started watching the Entire History of You, I assumed it would be like a more depressing version of Minority Report. Turns out, it was a more depressing version of Eternal Sunshine.

I love the final irony from "The entire history of you", where the man who can see it all rathers to be blind.

CineBinge drop 1st Black Mirror reaction and Me get big dopamine hit. Yay

I love the actor who plays Liam, if you want to see him in another thing watch Dead Man's Shoes - it's a British crime film with Paddy Considine!

@deathrowslag78

Ай бұрын

Awesome film like all things Shane Meadows but Dead Man's Shoes is probably my favourite

Charlie Brooker is great fun. He was a video games reviewer for PC Zone in the 90s, which had a really irreverent sense of humour, and that vibe has been a part of everything he's done ever since. His first show, Dead Set, is about a zombie outbreak at the Big Brother house. It's worth checking out.

@notjustforhackers4252

Ай бұрын

+1 for Dead Set.

@Warlock_UK

Ай бұрын

Dead set was so good!

@davidmcleod5133

Ай бұрын

I didn’t know he did Dead Set! It’s so obvious in hindsight though.

@dwaynehusbands6960

Ай бұрын

he also was a founding member of the CEX stores in england

@Warlock_UK

29 күн бұрын

@@dwaynehusbands6960 Holy shit, I didn't know that! :D

Black Mirror is a double entendre. The first meaning -- you're right Simone -- refers to the screens (phones and computers but originally TVs) before they are turned on in which we see ourselves. On a deeper, psychological level It also refers to that reflection of who we are but the darker aspect of our natures. Given that mirrors can also be scrying devices it has a note of the oraclular to it, as well.

Brooker is very into calling out spectatorship as collusion and accessory to crime, and if you think about it, we are not that different from the audience in National Anthem. Some of us watched in glee to see if the PM would really go through with it, and others of us were sickened from the start but still watched to see if it would happen -- and are we ever sorry for it now! 😂

Sometimes i feel like im living in an episode of Black Mirror

@nickinskeep

29 күн бұрын

It's the prime minister episode isn't it

@vighneshpillai7996

29 күн бұрын

😂​@@nickinskeep

@liquidpza

28 күн бұрын

It's far worse than you suspect.

@IgnisKhan

27 күн бұрын

Only sometimes?!

OMG!!! I love that you guys decided to post on KZread, especially as a binge! This is so exciting omg

"I immediately dislike everyone in this room except for him" Oh, it'll be everyone inside this room soon enough

Toby Kebbell, the star of Entire History of You, is a tremendous VO actor almost on the level of Andy Serkis.

Entire History of You is my favorite episode. Seeing a man's slow descent into madness and a woman's lies slowly unraveling. It had me at the edge of my seat the whole time

my favorite episode is "Shut up and dance" i am waiting for you guys to reacting to that however long i have to wait 🤣

@Shyknit

29 күн бұрын

Mine is hated in the nation

@TwinStripe

28 күн бұрын

Shut up and dance has one of the best 'rollercoaster drop' moments I've ever seen in a TV show - when you realise how wrong you've been reading it all you get a horrible empty feeling in the pit of your stomach. Awesome storytelling

Im super excited to see you get into Black Mirror! It's one of my favorite shows ever. It's cool how the fans have so many different favorite episodes. I hope you'll enjoy all of it! I think it right be right up George's alley.

The Entire History of You is one, if not the best episode of the series

@meu02136

Ай бұрын

The series of three yeah?

@GrumpySoth

Ай бұрын

I was confused, for a second I thought it was Rishi Sunak

@charlieg2262

Ай бұрын

I think it's my favourite Black Mirror episode (idk if thats what you meant, or if you did just mean series 1)

@memecity9849

Ай бұрын

@@charlieg2262 lol I should have said show. I forgot that places like the UK say series for seasons

@bidishah

Ай бұрын

The way that episode hit me…

There's a really cool detail I never noticed before. In the first episode, when the PM is woken up, there are cigarette burns on his night robe, on the lapel and shoulder. Tiny thing, but really cool.

What a treat to see you guys react to this. I'd always just assumed you'd already seen it.

Welcome to Charlie Booker s mind, the man is the best commentator of this modern distopia we live in

I’m so excited to watch this with you guys. I hope you continue through the entire series 🙂

oh wow can't wait to relive David Cameron rumours 😭💀

@adamroodog1718

29 күн бұрын

rumours?

@jannneumann5766

29 күн бұрын

@@adamroodog1718 Supposedly Cameron did the deed with a dead pig's mouth. It was an upper class frat boy student thing. The story was all over the UK media in 2015.

@HaloOverOurDemise

29 күн бұрын

Rumours? He definitely did it

@lesshero9982

29 күн бұрын

In 2015, a story began circulating that while at university, David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, did…something to a dead pig. Just search pig gate.

oo yay! it's my birthday today so this is extra fun :) excited to watch the whole show with you!

@SkwithOv

Ай бұрын

gotta be honest, i don't like the first episode and i think it would have been better to put a different one first in the series :/ i know some people started that one and didn't like it so they never watched the rest

Toby Kebbell the lead in the last one was brilliant in _Dead Man's Shoes_ next to Paddy Considine. It's a huge film over here and should come up in your list at some point.

sooo excited for these reactions omg. i used to be obsessed with black mirror

Glad that you're reacting to these - they are so original and unique.

I love the episode with the social media thing everyone uses. Can't wait to see you watch that one. And the episode "hang the dj." That one is really sweet.

*The Entire History of You* is, to this day, one of my absolute favorite episodes of TV in general. The idea that our technology advances so quickly and becomes so prolific that our human culture (the nature of our traditions, our psychology, our inherent tendencies and how we interact with each other and engage with ourselves in private) simply cannot adapt in time in a healthy way. The idea that as an audience we get caught up in the "oh my gosh, did he kill him?" because we're _an audience,_ that we forget that the black mirror is a reflection of ourselves and our relationship with our technology. When our screen is off, we'd see our reflection. When the screen is on, we're engaged and indulging in the content, able to avoid reflecting. In this episode, we are witness to inescapable reflection with such scrutiny that the conflict of simple technology with our chemistry clashes in ways we weren't designed to navigate -- that we haven't taught ourselves how to navigate. We're _supposed_ to be able to let time soften the edges. We contemplate, and we reason, and we rationalize, and we grow, and our perspective changes, and we can _try_ to heal from wounds of our past. We can't grow, otherwise, as individuals or within a community. The Entire History of You wields our nature against our inclinations, and these simple conveniences of technology could unravel us. It's one of the first pieces of sci-fi that really helped me comprehend the idea that there might be some things that we simply cannot navigate without the cost simply being too great... And we wouldn't, maybe even _couldn't_ recognize that pitfall until we're already trapped in the hole.

If you like this, you will love Love Death & Robots. It’s also an anthology series about bleak futures, but the episodes are short (most are less than 20 minutes) and most are quite funny.

@anonymes2884

Ай бұрын

LD+R is great IMO but it's _mostly_ a very different type of show (it's often _not_ about "bleak futures" for instance). It's more just an anthology series adapted from SF&F short stories. But if someone likes "Black Mirror" _because_ they like SF&F then for sure, they may well like "Love, Death + Robots" too.

@Sgroh87

29 күн бұрын

@@anonymes2884 You don't think that, for example, Sonnie's Edge, Three Robots, Suits, Yogurt, Aquila Rift, Helping Hand, Zima Blue, and Alternate Histories - all Season 1 episodes - fit the "technology has led us down the wrong path" thematic concept that Black Mirror espouses? I guess it's unfair to say that the series are as similar as I implied, but reducing it to "just a [sci-fi and fantasy] anthology series" takes away from the similarities that are there.

I’m incredibly ecstatic to see you guys reacting to this show!!

A lovely surprise not having to wait until monday night for my dose of cinebinge. Great stuff guys

I am soooooo happy you are watching Black Mirror!!! Can't wait to go on this journey with you!

You wait till you get to "White Christmas", brilliantly messed up.

@finsternis1986

Ай бұрын

"White Christmas" is definitely one of the darker ones, and I'm gonna have to throw "Crocodile" in there too.

@paulmatson661

29 күн бұрын

"Shut Up and Dance" kept me up nights, unable to sleep, just feeling awful for and about people.

@finsternis1986

29 күн бұрын

@@paulmatson661 Yeah, the reveal on that one is a gut punch, 'cause you spend the whole episode feeling sorry for the protagonist, and then... 😬

"It's biggest weakness is people's weakness" - remember this.

Can't wait for y'all to watch all the seasons!!

The thing I love about black mirror is how it works in the grey areas. And how the black mirror....shows us what we are or could be.

I love the way this show encourages important discussions about our present and future.

The 'End of Part one' and 'Part Two' screens are the buffer screens each side of the commercial breaks in the original broadcast of the show on Channel 4 in the UK. This was obviously before Netflix took over production.

Really taking 'I can't forget about them/I can't get them out of my head' to the next level there!

yes please keep uploading these to youtube!

David Cameron is that you???

The first 2 series and the Christmas special were shown on Channel 4 here in the UK which has adverts, that's why you see "End of Part 1" and so on. Another fun fact, Jordan Peele wanted Daniel Kaluuya to be in Get Out because of his performance in this.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHOW?" -Simone @ 3:03

@exscape

Ай бұрын

It's a fair question when you've only seen 5 minutes of episode 1! I really don't like how they placed it first, probably turned a lot of people off of a great show.

@anonymes2884

Ай бұрын

Fans of the show: "Yes".

@shortdrink873

29 күн бұрын

@@exscapeit’s designed to dare you to keep watching. Putting it first is a statement of intent

So excited that you're watching these!

I’m so excited to watch you two react to this! I grew up on 80’s and 90’s horror anthologies, and nothing has ever quite unsettled me the way this show does. Season 3, episode 1 gives me waking nightmares, because I see it coming true daily.

Shows on British commercial TV have title cards at the start and end of commercial breaks. Hence the End of Part One and Part Two interludes.

This is amazing you guys are doing these from season 1!!! This shit blew my mind, so well done, so interesting

Jessica Brown Findlay did Hamlet a few years ago, the girl in the second episode. Her interpretation of Ophelia is my absolute favorite I have ever seen and I've seen a lot. Not an obsessive amount but enough to have thoughts on Shakespeare interpretations :). It always seemed very hard to me to make one of Shakespeare's female roles stand out but she nailed it. Up there for me with Emma Thompson in Much Ado About Nothing. If you can find it. I implore you. If you have any interest in Shakespeare at all, or even if you don't. Find it and watch it. Her and Andrew Scott in the "break up" scene, their acting got so stuck in my head I think I watched that scene daily for almost 3 months. The nuances from them both was just epic.

Black Mirror is such a GREAT show. And this first episode realy sets the tone for it. Also might be a small dig at Cameron and the story about him at the Piers Gaveston Society at Oxford, but also about how as Geroge talks about how people love to see people fall down and how we all watch social media

You’re right that usually technology is not good or bad until people’s personal choices intervene but when it was designed a decision was made about what to incentivize. The grain episode makes us think about how harmful memory access could be but we don’t have to stretch our imagination that hard because we already have an early version of that in the conversations we keep in our messaging apps and we already see it being used in negative ways

Toby Kebbell (the main character from The Entire History of you) also plays Koba in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

One thing I love about Black mirror is that so many of the episodes make you step back and actually think.

I dislike the recent discourse online that pre-netflix Black Mirror is 'bad' or technophobic. Pre-Netflix bleak Black Mirror is the best, and its least regarded episode, The Waldo Moment, is the most prophetic. Also, the White Christmas special is peak bleak and I've never been able to rewatch it.

Toby Kebbel from the third episode is the actor who portrays Koba in the Planet of the apes movies. He also plays (young) Kong in skull island (part of the Monster-verse with the Godzilla movies). In Godzilla vs Kong, Andy Serkis portrays Old Kong and also played Ceasar in the Planet of Apes movies with Kebbel

@vicvinegar4540

Ай бұрын

He also brilliantly plays the brother in Dead Man's Shoes. A film that George and Simone absolutely have to watch.

@TrickyDicky2006

Ай бұрын

@@vicvinegar4540 I've been meaning to mention that (along with This is England) Another channel has just watched them both in recent weeks. There is also the follow on TV series for this is England too.

By accident I watched season 3 episode 1 (titled "Nosedive") of Black Mirror first, and absolutely loved it, so that got me into the series. If I had seen season 1 episode 1 (The National Anthem) first I don't know if I would have wanted to watch more. Just brutal, and unfortunately not separated from reality enough to make it less disturbing. While also brutal in its way, Nosedive remains as my favorite Black Mirror episode.

@atomic_hok

Ай бұрын

Season 3 is definitely the best season in my opinion. Nosedive, playtest, shut up and dance and san Junipero are all really damn good episodes

@realsies9387

Ай бұрын

The same thing happened to me. I saw the show on Netflix and just pressed play and it played the first episode of the latest season for some reason and it got me hooked. Once I realized it was not on season one I went back but yeah, if I hadn’t seen that episode first I probably wouldn’t have kept watching.

@lashier13

Ай бұрын

Yeah, that's always been my theory as to why Netflix presents them in the way that it does, most recent first. Probably correctly assuming that an episode that, ahem, climaxes with a PM fucking a pig would turn off most normal folk. I watched National Anthem first and immediately binged the other 5 episodes that were available at the time. But I guess I'm just not like other girls. (Nevermind that I'm a guy.)

@davidmcleod5133

Ай бұрын

Same, re. Nosedive. It is the one that is closest to our current reality in my opinion, which makes it the most frightening to me.

@atomic_hok

Ай бұрын

@@davidmcleod5133 closest to our current reality you mean already happening in China

Awesome Really hope you continue I’m not completely caught up but have seen 4 or 5 seasons

"What is wrong with people!?" That sums up the Black Mirror series.

@runninginharran

28 күн бұрын

"What is wrong with people?" It's called psychopathy. The world is flooded with psychopaths.

@christopherplummer1299

28 күн бұрын

@@runninginharran Yup, just add new technology and what can possibly go wrong? 🤣😂😅😨😱

It's called Black Mirror because it's meant to be a dark reflection of our own reality

@rabbitandcrow

Ай бұрын

Plus screens.

@jhornacek

Ай бұрын

It's about the black screen of your phone that shows your own face reflected back to you.

@anonymes2884

Ай бұрын

It's both. The "black mirror" itself _is_ screens (that's beyond contestation, Brooker's said it in interviews) but the conceit of the show is dark reflections of our _technological_ society.

@jhornacek

Ай бұрын

@@anonymes2884 The creator of the show has literally said (multiple times) that the title is a reference to the black screens of our smartphones that reflect our faces back at ourselves. It's not about any new technology introduced in each episode - it's about the people and how they use/react to it.

@LezArtist5iG

Ай бұрын

Everyone is wrong in these comments. Black Mirror is a dark side remake of Outer Limits

Yeah, this show took a massive swing right out of the gate with that first episode. Incredibly ballsy to lead off with The National Anthem as your series premiere.

I remember when this first came out, the first two series will always be my favourite. Its so jarring.

The Entire History of You is one of my all-time favorites from Black Mirror. So damn haunting

Thank you guys for releasing this on youtube. I hope you do the other seasons as well. I haven't seen the later seasons myself so I probably won't watch them until I can catch up but I know you'll like the second and third at least. And while each episode is kind of standalone there is some slight overlapping in technologies, we see this technology being used in another episode I believe Also I didn't realize on my first watch through, but watching this now Liam seems so familiar and I had to look him up and I just realized he played Koba and the asshole with the gun in the second planet of the apes movie (war?) It was only fresh in my mind because I just watched Alex Hefner's reaction 😂

The show gets a lot less depressing when it stops being a British show which I think was mistake, but every season has at least a couple of phenomenal episodes

There's at least one episode later in the run that has a ton of Easter eggs for previous episodes in it leading some people to think that the stories might be a shared universe.

Black Mirror representing a screen with no signal is new to me and it's intriguing, thanks Simone.

You've narrowed in on one of the subtler themes of the show - In the majority of episodes it isn't technology that is the main driver of the conflict, it's people and the problems that we've been struggling with since time immemorial. Technology in the show is generally only a facilitator or an amplifier of those problems.

Hope George is recovering well from his surgery 😊

I wish I could re-watch the first ever episode of this show for the first time again. Something changed with what TV could be when this show got commissioned.

While black mirror might refer to screens, originally the term was about actual black mirrors, often made of obsidian used for "scrying", where you stare into it to get visions of the future. Same idea as a crystal ball. Staring at shiny surfaces for a while can induce illusions, due to the brain getting fatigued of processing the same input or something. Staring at your face in a mirror without moving will cause the face to distort after a few minutes for instance. Try it.

What a wild first episode. But it gets better. A lot of crazy good episodes to come

that second episode DESTROYS ME EVERYTIME

I personally think that was a brilliant choice for the first episode of the series. We all watched just like everybody in the episode glued to their TV and we came back for more of the show even after _that_ .

An underrated gem from Charlie Brooker was A Touch of Cloth. It's a spoof he wrote about British cop shows but you don't need to have seen any to find it funny

@phueal

Ай бұрын

The Piers Morgan scene of that show is one of my favourite TV moments.

@Deimos2k5

Ай бұрын

@@A-small-amount-of-peas "He's down at Dat Dere Yoot Centre"

@A-small-amount-of-peas

Ай бұрын

@@phueal 🤮

Black Mirror will always be my all time favorite show. The early seasons are some of the best you will ever watch. I just remember when I first discovered it back in 2014 I was so mind blown and intrigued I couldn’t stop watching it. I never took it as hard as they did because I like grim shows. I don’t remember it having parts though? Where did that come from?

I've been waiting for this for so long.

The reason there are breaks in the programmes is because there were advertisement breaks at these points 👍🏼 🇬🇧❤️🇨🇦

Black Mirror is genuinely one of the best TV shows ever in my view. Every episode is completely different, but there are threads that do track through episodes. Like the song the sings in the Credits episode, and some names and places. It's really creative.

“White Bear” on season 2 is phenomenal. Probably my favourite episode of the show.

@mr_k4tz

29 күн бұрын

Definitely a standout episode

The first episode TRAUMATIZED ME, I felt sick for a few days when I thought about it (and I tried very hard not to think about it lmao).

Jessica Brown Findlay (of Downton Abbey fame and Harlots) is so good in episode 2.

The mere fact you're discussing the moral, ethical and social issues means the show did exactly what it was made to do.

Just because you are paranoid does not mean you are wrong.

@BarryHart-xo1oy

29 күн бұрын

True.

@hippiecheapskate

29 күн бұрын

Doesn't mean you are right either. Paranoia is only evidence of paranoia

@trappestarrgaming3422

29 күн бұрын

Some ppl wanna be right so bad they dnt care wat it takes or destroys

one of my favorite shows of all time