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Can't have that anymore because of woke

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago

Wot if yer roomba had a knoif?

[-] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

Wot if yer mum was a computah?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Wot if yer fone new ya name

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

Wot eef there was an app on your mobile that summoned a weasel or a stout of your choice to bite your nippies until they're all gone? People would have few nippies left on account of they're always on mobile while standing on queue

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

Wot if they replace Big Ben with a digital clock?

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

Season 1 and 2 + the Xmas Special are solid gold. It was a straight BBC joint then.

The themes and direction were clear and the show did what it set out to do. I enjoyed that. There are plenty of fair criticisms of the show, but pre-Netflix-collaboration Black Mirror has to stand alone.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

It always had a weird incel streak to it. I remember the creator something like "yeah I like to portray women being evil because something something maternal instinct". The episode where the guy's exwife cheated on him was classic incel bait.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Wot if your mate wrote a transcendental musical thst swept all of britannia and when the queen came to see it, his Xbox came on stage and said it had written the tune? That'd be a real trouser pinch

[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's amazing how 100% of the first season episodes were about people cheating on their partners. Also how obsessed the author seems to be about women cheating on their partners and having a mixed race baby. Oh yeah, i just remembered the "what if you could become a woman in a videogame and let your mate hit it?" episode.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

"Bro? Is it gay to have sex in a video game with your best bro if you're playing as a brah?"

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

"what if you could become a woman in a videogame and let your mate hit it?"

Well, whom amongst us hasn't fantasized about that?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Tbh if someone made VR tech that let me feel what sex is like for a woman, I'd sign up immediately.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Yeah there’s a clear drop in overall quality and curiosity between the original Channel 4 run and the Netflix episodes.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I could never get into Black Mirror because every episode felt like a poorly edited pilot, where the actors weren't into their roles yet and never would be since it was a one-off and they'd stretch like at most 15 minutes of story out into an hour of not particularly good filler that went on way too long. Like I felt like Love, Death, + Robots and Black Mirror were functionally the same thing and both had about the same amount of story and content per episode, but where LD+R trimmed it a little too tight Black Mirror would just keep going and going without anything there.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

You might find Inside No. 9 a better anthology series to watch. Less “wot if your phone was evil” and more surrealist cross-genre drama. It has a consistent cast and while one or two episodes are weak, overall it’s quite enjoyable.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Wot if there was a microchip?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

At's prahpuh scary, innit?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Could be good, enjoyed it back in the day, but on reflection its kinda mid. Cyberpunk anthology series could have its day if writers generally understood "its not about how technology makes us bad, but using stories about technology to critique modern society". Also stop having man main characters where the main tragedy is how the cute girl at the coffee shop won't date them.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Wot if, a British bloke made a tele show bout how his dame done cheated on em with a cellular?

Blimey that's literally the show you made Charlie innit?

Oh, right-o

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

You should watch Channel 4's Utopia. Dystopian scifi. It's about a comic book fan club that is being pursued by a fascist deepstate. It was canceled after 2 seasons for being too violent. It has great visuals and a banger soundtrack too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnN3WMwDsk

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

It's a shame the premise is basically just accepting ecofash assumptions in order to be provocative, but the style and acting is great.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

From what I remember, the ecofash are the villains. The villians has some ecofascist beliefs and are motivated by those beliefs, but I don't think that the show itself accepts ecofascism. To me it was pretty clear that the show was saying ecofascism is bad.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

I thought it was about what if technology but scary

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Remember the episode about the "Cockroaches"...

I know people complain about stories when they aren't subtle but sometimes its nice when you're beat over the head with the "point" a story was trying to make instead of having to "read the bones" and hope you stumble on a somewhat close answer.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Always hated it. Charlie Brooker made a parody of the concept years before making the show and also I fucking hate British people ~~attempting social commentary or humor.~~ They're all smug little shit eaters who are way too proud of how fucking clever they are.

Wot if ya pens got warm eh?

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

I have to say I really dislike black mirror. It feels so proud of itself for basic social commentary. Look at Twilight Zone, including the reboot, the story serves the commentary, instead of the story being the commentary stated over and over and over. BM just feels depressing and not in a Come and See way, but in this nihilistic sense.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

It's like the TV equivalent of a Banksy

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Ok but san junipero

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

the pig fucking episode was its peak. even the rest of that first series was not good

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Of season 4 I only saw the Jesse Plemons, neonazi from breaking bad, die in the game die IRL one. If there are any after that worth watching I'd like to know.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

The only Black Mirror I found genuinely disturbing was White Bear.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

White Bear

I also found that episode weird.

spoilerLike... what's the whole premise behind this show? I get "the message" about social media allowing people to get off on punishing people, and how it's pretty sadistic even when the people deserve it. But who the fuck would pay to go to a park to mildly harass a woman who doesn't even recall the awful crime she committed? For most of the whole affair the lady is out in the woods and none of the cell phone gawkers could even see her. Who designed this weird ass scenario? What's the point? Wouldn't it just be more efficient to just torture her to death on live TV or something?

Like I got the concept but I found the details were really weird and I spent more time thinking about that than the message.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Once again the very clear message of "British people are inhuman monsters who delight in the suffering of minorities" is squandered on deaf ears

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

"Be Right Back" from season 2 was really good, and incredibly prescient given recent developments in AI. It predicted Replika, or rather Replika was partially inspired by that episode - a real "we created the Torment Nexus" moment.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wanted to make a joke about pig fucking and woke, and people in the comments are earnestly discussing the show

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Welcome to Hexbear lol

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Wot if the pig was a computah?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Wot if your computer was an hyena and it voted Tory?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Well that only happened because of that bri'ish politician who fucked a pig

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Piggate was 4 years after The National Anthem aired.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

wait, what the fuck?! I thought that episode was genius satire, and it was just a fluke?! That's insane.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

yup, the show willed it into being. I remember the showrunner being flabbergasted

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah, suddenly it's palid and has no bite.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

the first two or three (can't remember) seasons were good then Netflix bought it. as usual you can thank the Americans for making it shit

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

That show's still fucking going?

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