2016 has been shit. Decipher the why’s for yourselves, but there are plenty of them. Due to this-perhaps inspite of it-more and more we have turned to entertainment to keep the demons at bay and distract our mind with television…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×06 “Hated in the Nation”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Hated in the Nation places its deterministic death grip on the internet mob mentality—a “real world” issue that deserves at least some discussion. The final episode of Black Mirror, a police procedural, is an investigation…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×05 “Men Against Fire”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Men Against Fire proposes one of the most unique, non-literal interpretations of warfare within the last 5 years—it’s a shame the episode seems work better on paper than it does in execution. Black…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×04 “San Junipero”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Up until watching San Junipero I would have used words like “futuristic” and “modernistic” to describe Black Mirror, this time around the one word to describe it would probably be “retro”. In the nightclub scene of…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×03 “Shut Up and Dance”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. There’s an outrageousness to Shut Up and Dance that makes it both easier and more difficult to enjoy. It’s the most suspense-driven and conventional of the third season, but it’s also the most…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×02 “Playtest”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Black Mirror’s second episode Playtest brings to mind the type of virtual reality stories (think The Matrix, Existenz and Sword Art Online) that made ‘video games’ alone a popular subgenre in mainstream science fiction. Wyatt Russell (who you…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×01 “Nosedive”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. With its premier episode airing so close to Halloween, a day where our fears of the unknown become their most pronounced, Black Mirror steadily reminds us that the things that should scare us…