Originally Posted by Fish:
Watched the very first episode, National Anthem, and thought it was the stupidest thing I'd seen in a long while. The entire premise was just so ridiculous and unbelievable, I didn't want to continue with the rest of the episodes. Painfully stupid and disgusting.
Synopsis, if you haven't seen it and don't care about spoilers:
Spoiler!
So the princess of England is kidnapped. The kidnapper gives his demands, which is only that the Prime Minister of England had to fuck a pig on live TV and it had to be broadcast on every station, and he had to "Finish". And for some reason, every single person in the country is like "Sorry, dude you have to go through with it and fuck that pig on worldwide TV because it's the princess." Nobody but the Prime Minister seems to give a moments pause that they shouldn't give in to terrorist demands or anything. Nope, just pig fucking. No choice, just get on with it.
Yep. I heard this show was good and watched the first episode.
Nobody but the Prime Minister seems to give a moments pause that they shouldn't give in to terrorist demands or anything. Nope, just pig ****ing. No choice, just get on with it.
That's not true at all.
Spoiler!
Everyone at first told him not to, they even went so far as hiring a porn guy to attempt to CGI the act so the PM wouldn't have to.
Hopped on Netflix to check out Black Mirror due to this thread. LOL, it showed that at some point I had watched maybe 10 minutes of the 1st episode and turned it off. It must have been bad as I don't even remember starting it. Watched the 2nd episode and am now fully enjoying it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KCUnited:
Hopped on Netflix to check out Black Mirror due to this thread. LOL, it showed that at some point I had watched maybe 10 minutes of the 1st episode and turned it off. It must have been bad as I don't even remember starting it. Watched the 2nd episode and am now fully enjoying it.
I know several people who've said the same thing. Shame, I think a lot of people who would love the show can never make it past episode 1. Kind of wish the show didn't kick off with that one. I didn't mind the episode. I thought it was thought provoking [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fish:
Watched the very first episode, National Anthem, and thought it was the stupidest thing I'd seen in a long while. The entire premise was just so ridiculous and unbelievable, I didn't want to continue with the rest of the episodes. Painfully stupid and disgusting.
Synopsis, if you haven't seen it and don't care about spoilers:
Spoiler!
So the princess of England is kidnapped. The kidnapper gives his demands, which is only that the Prime Minister of England had to fuck a pig on live TV and it had to be broadcast on every station, and he had to "Finish". And for some reason, every single person in the country is like "Sorry, dude you have to go through with it and fuck that pig on worldwide TV because it's the princess." Nobody but the Prime Minister seems to give a moments pause that they shouldn't give in to terrorist demands or anything. Nope, just pig fucking. No choice, just get on with it.
Same here. But I started watching the choose your own ending show and it was kind of fun. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
Great list. Check these episodes out, Fish.
All right, I'll give it a chance. Thank you guys for the explanation. I didn't necessarily realize that each episode was a completely individual universe/plot. That changes everything.... I'll try again.. [Reply]
Originally Posted by AssEaterChief:
One of my favorite shows. Every episode is a different story so I wouldn't get discouraged by the 1st show.
My favorites are:
Shut up and Dance
Playtest
White Christmas
Hang the DJ
Black Museum
Men Against Fire
San Junipero is very thought provoking too even though I had to watch it 3 or 4 times to really appreciate it.
I got hooked after Fifteen Million Merits. It just had such a claustrophobic and immersive feel and just the mystery as to what the hell the people were doing there in the first place just added to it for me. [Reply]
Probably just a coincidence, but in 'Hang the DJ', notice how the initials of the two main character's names are the beginning and end of the six letters used in hexadecimal.
