Black Mirror: Season 4. This is the definitive ranking of the episodes by quality.
Spoilers, so beware.
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Number 6: Crocodile. Bad science, bad noir. Worst episode of the season. Minimal characterizations, no real investigation. Just ever increasing stakes and bad action.
Number 5: Metalhead. Enjoyable, but didn't tell us enough. No real investigation into humanity, just -- RUN. Loved that it was black and white, and shiny and chrome.
-- Episodes beyond this line are frightfully good. ---
Number 4: Arkangel. Good, solid Black Mirror Episode. Delved into helicoper parenting, and how technology warps our relationships. Exactly what I want from BM. Ending was too neat.
Number 3: USS Calister. A star trek homage with toxic masculinity? Yes, please. Ending was too happy for Black Mirror. Bad guy is punished, our protagonist and new friends are free and have a ship.
Number 2: Hang the DJ. What's that, a society that digitally simulations millions of sentient people as a dating app? I adored this episode, every single moment.
Number 1: Black Museum. This episode had everything, even our cowgirl riding off into the sunset on a white steed. References to other episodes, the suggestion that the fall from goodness is an invisible slope and that science creates monsters. And, we know what'll happen when our protagonist disagrees with her copilot... and that monkey won't be happy for long ....
You are allowed to disagree, i suppose. And to discuss. With spoilers.
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On the USS Calister ending; they are stuck in a universe full of gamers, so perhaps not that happy an ending.
ReplyDeleteTrue, and they are apparently the only conscious AIs, made by a dead man who could replicate consciousness from a few strands of DNA.
ReplyDeleteYou are incorrect
ReplyDeleteCare to tell us more, Jason Morningstar?
ReplyDelete(I'm just kidding around; I disagree with your subjective ranking in the strongest fanboy terms!)
ReplyDelete(right, I figured we can both take media seriously with out claiming objective reality. I'm curious about your ranking and thoughts.)
ReplyDeletePrimarily I thought Black Museum was a terrible talk-don't-show example of lazy writing and would put it at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteI don't even know what to say to that. Mu, i suppose.
ReplyDeleteI can't rank them because I loved them all for their own reasons. I noticed in the conversation from the other day some people seemed to feel that certain things needed to be in a BM episode for it to be of quality (e.g., that the technology in the episode must be relevant to the plot). I don't have any such metrics. I just look at the show and decide if I liked it.
ReplyDeleteI've loved every episode this season.