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I’m late! I know I’m late. But Black Mirror season 3 happened, and it was everything I feared and hoped for. Six episodes. Six, whopping, episodes. And can you believe I watched four and a half in one night? Let me tell you, it was stressful. But oh, was it worth it. Before Nosedive I didn’t know you could rate your uber driver. Let me tell you this has ruined my life. I tried to bump this lady that took me to work the other day down, like it would actually change her life. She was a 4.7 y’all and I don’t know how she got there but let me tell you I wasn’t having it. I’ve told everyone I know to watch San Junipero; who’d have thunk that the most depressing, unsettling show would have a wonderful and wholesome interracial women love women relationship- WITH a bisexual and a lesbian no less. This show is a blessing and a curse and by the time I finished episode six I didn’t know what to do with myself (and that one was so good guys, even Kat got caught up in the DRAMA of it all). If no one listened to my last nonsense post about this show, please listen to this one and watch. It’s great: well made, well written, well acted, and very very real considering the subject matter. I kind of want to watch it all again already.

Note: if you have a fear of spiders maybe skip Episode 2- Playtest, they play (get it??) a major part in it. It’s pretty gross. It changed me in a bad way.

Black Mirror is now a Netflix original, all three seasons and the Christmas episode are available now!

 

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Have you ever met a handsome stranger (a bouncer) in some shadowy place (a bar you frequent) and on one magical night he changes your life? I have, and the most wondrous part is that we still talk! “What’s this fantastic life change,” I hear you all wondering, but I have bad news: I still don’t know if the change was a good one. You see, he got me hooked on something. A little UK show called Black Mirror. So I’m gonna talk about it today, and I hope you all watch it and hate me a little bit for this thing I’ve done. You’re welcome.

So, Black Mirror. It’s a show with some downs, some ups, and a lot of WTF moments. It’s set up like a miniseries– three hour and a half episodes per season– but none of the episodes are directly related. Each has to do with the general theme of technology being the end of us all, which, isn’t that fabulous? Each episode falls into one of three categories: technological advances, the power of social media and the internet, or the downfall of viral fame. They all have a kind of creepy voyeuristic quality and is ultimately made worse by the fact that most of it seems to take place in a not so distant future.

I was going to try and go ahead and write out about each episode and….I guess review? But two things ended up happening: I, first off, realized that this show is something that has to be experienced. I could not, in good conscience, ruin some of the great thinking moments of the show because let me tell you, a lot of deep introspection happens. The other thing, is that I started screaming into a pillow because there’s literally no way to explain what happens on this show. I think about it all the time; it stresses me out. Sometimes I want to text the guy who told me about it and say “Look here, ya jerk,” and thank him for ruining my life. (Real talk though, we have conversations about it every few months because I literally am always thinking about it).

This show is a wild ride, and I need for the next season to happen immediately. Has it shaken my worldview? Yes. Do I not completely trust my own cell phone? Yes, of course. But am I also feening for this show? ABSOLUTELY. I’ve got the shakes y’all. I’m scratching. I need it in my life. Come over to the dark side, we know how technology will turn on you and we have bomb shelters.

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Two seasons and a Christmas episode are currently on Netflix. (I beg you, talk to me about this show if you go ahead and watch it, we can wear matching tinfoil hats!)

For more information on Black Mirror and show creator Charlie Brooker, check out Channel 4.

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