No spoiler tags here for anything in this season or before.
Episode 1 was the standout for me. The rest had some good acting but overall the stories not as good as previous seasons. Still better than most stuff out there but we expect more.
for me goes like:
- Demon 79
- Beyond the Sea
- Joan is awful
- Loch Henry
- Mazey Day
Does anybody know the reason to move away from technology based storylines and have more paranormal stuff?
It must be hard to come up with the calibre of idea they normally do, and it’s their show to run with how they like, but as a Sci fi fan I was a little dissapointed with the move.
Not a major issue as each episode was a good stand alone production.
Brooker was apparently planning a spinoff or something called Red Mirror for which the Demon 79 and Mazey Day were written for. He talks about it in some interviews and there’s plenty about in on the Wikipedia page for the new season/episodes. He goes into further detail, but honestly it just sounds like they couldn’t make their mind up or ran out of ideas and came up with a bunch of backpedaling and excuses about how the people act and react the way they do because of technology or lack of it. In Mazey Day the technological/sociological aspect is supposed to be how society has changed since the hey-days of paparazzos and how everyone is a paparazzo now or some such. He just wants to explore different things now I guess.
I agree they work as stand alone things, but neither you or me are clearly not alone feeling that it’s not quite Black Mirror - even though I could live the rest of my days without a single goddamn werewolf story, especially one as generic and plain as this even if it was a decent production.
