06-23-2023, 03:39 PM
Black Mirror Season 6 is pretty good... I assume 
because S5 was pretty mediocre and people bounced off?
I'm just gonna give vague overall thoughts on the overall series so nobody is spoiled, will give spoilered individual episode thoughts if a conversation happens.
because S5 was pretty mediocre and people bounced off?I'm just gonna give vague overall thoughts on the overall series so nobody is spoiled, will give spoilered individual episode thoughts if a conversation happens.
- I think it benefitted from going away for awhile and getting some fresh ideas. Its also moved to something more of a general anthology than a specifically 'hard' sci-fi anthology, but where it got a little formulaic to the point other comedy shows were taking pot-shots at it just being "technology bad, future sucks" its always been about humans being humans, and how new technologies facilitate that in different ways.
This season leans into that side of things more than the 'technology' side, to the extent there are a few episodes explicitly set in the past and using older technology.
- It also abandons 'sci-fi' as a principal guiding theme entirely, and moves 100% into 'horror' and supernatural stuff, and not in the 'sufficiently advanced technology' sense.
I'm fine with this, seems like it annoyed some folks
- With the exception of one episode which I think kinda drags a little and could have been edited down further, but I guess wanted to give the plot some room to breathe so as to justify the ending, this is all really good compelling TV, and I would be 100% on board a companion "Red Mirror" anthology series.