Black Mirror : Season 1 | Canadian First Time Watching | TV Reaction | Review | Commentary

Simone & George are reacting to Black Mirror for the first time! Canadians React!
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00:00 - Episode 1 : The National Anthem
15:25 - Episode 2 : 15 Million Merits
34:19 - Episode 3 : The Entire History of You
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[@GuyWithACamera23]

"What the fuck is wrong with people?" You've just asked the question that is the backbone to this show.

[@dmore]

The real genius about Black Mirror is that no matter the fancy tech it introduces, the stories are always ultimately about the flaws of humanity, not the technology. I can’t wait to follow you through the series of this amazing show. I really hope you do the Bandersnatch one too!!!

[@ProgressiveRoxx]

There is an English folk story called Lady Godiva, in which the titular noblewoman makes a deal with an evil lord to riide naked on her horse through the streets of London in return for taxes being waived for the poor. In the story Lady Godiva was so loved and respected by the common folk that, despite her famous beauty, everyone stayed indoors to avoid seeing her naked, letting her maintain her dignity. IMO "The National Anthem"" episode is an inversion of this story. People were asked not to watch the broadcast, but everyone did. And because everyone was watching it, no-one realised the hostage had been released until it was too late for the PM.

[@kevdoe3360]

Isn't that where "peeping Tom" comes from? A guy taking a peep at her?

[@yvonnesanders4308]

Internet has become the new knitting gallery at the guillotine

[@YearRoundHibernater]

Lady Godiva was a real figure in history, although the riding naked through the streets likely never happened. She was wife of the Earl of Mercia like in the story and was known for caring for the poor, several monasteries have records of donations and gifts from her helping them recover from Viking raids. The story is she rode through Coventry naked to stop her husband raising the taxes, everyone looked away apart from one of the townsfolk and that's where the phrase peeping Tom comes from.

[@sleeper-cassie]

The story includes one citizen named Thomas who cheated and looked at the nude Lady, which is where we get the phrase “peeping Tom”. In the version I heard, he bragged about what he saw, so the town formed a mob and blinded him.

[@sarahhughes4437]

You left out that she fucked horses

[@srpratt1]

Can't wait for Simone's reaction to USS Callister.

[@Scoobay]

Me neither. It’ll be a minute, though they’re just about to start season 3 and then a new TV show after.

[@COFF2HIGH]

I love Jesse Plemons in that.

[@jculver1674]

That one and White Christmas are the ones that really get me.

[@Moritz19081980]

By far the best episode.

[@TheDramakiddo]

completely agree. my favorite episode

[@phueal]

One really interesting bit in The Entire History of You that I'd never noticed until this reaction is how Jonas's girlfriend, the one without the "Grain", has trouble getting the cops to come to the house when he's assaulting Jonas. After calling them to say she's witnessing a serious assault, in the background she says "I don't have a Grain Feed to throw you! I told you, I don't have Grain." 48:00. It sounds like when you call 911 they would automatically just want you to show them what you're seeing, which makes obvious sense, but also seems to mean they won't believe you so easily if you can't show them.

[@matthewfarrer8395]

And rather prescient about the way the tech seeps into every aspect of life, until something that seemed like an optional luxury at first becomes indispensable because so many other parts of life just assume you have it and act accordingly. Like a business or service saying “we don’t bother with a shopfront or website, just use our app on your phone!”.

[@trappestarrgaming3422]

Honestly I think that's a good thing 2 many ppl filing fake reports and stuff

[@mattgarrett2583]

@@trappestarrgaming3422 Dude, someone can force you to delete an event.. so the woman without the grain is the only witness if both parties delete it.. so you purge a guys memories after robbing them, then purge your own after you leave 500 bucks in your coat pocket then you're that guy that just randomly forgets they have 500 bucks in their pocket every single day they go outside and can't figure out why their knuckles are always broken

[@trappestarrgaming3422]

@@mattgarrett2583 ok but you still have the memory of sumbody making you delete the other memory tho so their still evidence. Not 2 mention if you delete the memory of putting money in your pocket that's more of a you thing. If the person refuses to delete it what are u gonna do kill them? That leaves more evidence and I'm sure he givt has ways to get that shit back even if your dead. No way any govt would allow this witout some type of control. Plus u gotta hope nobody sees you doing it. 1 person walks by they can zoom in and clean up the picture it's so much they can do

[@2nd3rd1st]

George "The phone screen is a black mirror?? Like when it's turned off? Why would anyone do that??" Exactly the type of guy this show is made for 😂

[@jhornacek]

Mostly when the phone is in locked-mode, not just turned off.

[@weirds0up]

“I really don’t trust this show”. Good instincts

[@lashier13]

An extra bit of possible tragedy to The Entire History of You: the lady at the dinner party was said to be lucky she didn't go blind when her grain got ripped out. Then he rips his out at the end and it cycles through a bunch of images and cuts to black. Maybe cause it was the end of the episode and that's how episodes end. Or maybe cause those were the last things he ever saw.

[@nickinskeep]

Simone's looks of horror during the first episode were gd hilarious

[@Invinci-NeD]

I’m so unbelievably excited to start this journey with y’all (as a KZbin subscriber) thanks for uploading this on KZbin guys!!

[@kayleemariee239]

right?! my fav reactors watching my fav show 💕💕 love it !!

[@xXBenutzer235Xx]

They are starting Season 3 on Patreon in 2 days. Cant wait for it, its easily my favorite Season :)

[@Invinci-NeD]

@@kayleemariee239 and now we get s2 right away aswell… WHATTA WIN!!!

[@Invinci-NeD]

@@xXBenutzer235Xx I think I’d 100% agree (my favourite episode is Playtest)

[@xXBenutzer235Xx]

@@Invinci-NeD I gotta go with Hated in the Nation I think. Incredible Episode but I think all Episodes in S3 are insane.

[@brom00]

Can't believe that first episode is nearly 13 years old. Love Black Mirror. Simone, there's a certain forth season episode I'm sure you'd enjoy.

[@AFMountaineer2000]

USS Callister?

[@that.ll_do_pig]

That episode is definitely in my top three ​@@AFMountaineer2000

[@firstsurname7099]

Forth or fourth (and forth)?

[@spencerarnold669]

Commenting of the line "if it gives brings you joy, its not wasted" regarding buying virtual stuff for avatars. I think the episode is questioning why it gives you joy. Is it actually joy or a empty dopamine rush meant as a distraction. I'm not singling out game purchases the same could be said for most consumerism.

[@gigimc]

Best part about this series is that Charlie drops hella breadcrumbs that proves [even tho he insisted at first that each episode is an anthology] that this universe IS related almost in every episode... for instance the news ticker thingy in the pilot mentions cutting edge things that are coming up, then in a future episode that very same cutting edge thing is featured... makes rewatching fun, because how would you know when it's the first time you've seen the show. All part of his marketing plan I'm sure.

[@ahabkapitany]

for me, the time adjustment in White Christmas is what gives me nightmares still

[@zhen3142]

Best episode of the series

[@LethalWalou]

The actual scare part is that they are trying to make that happen now in real life too, for criminals to serve their sentence in seconds.

[@BClarke]

Yes! That one really affected me. So many episodes circle around the feeling of helplessness, and that moment at the end of "White Christmas" was the crystallization of that fear, compounded by the unforgiving element of time. Gives me chills even now.

[@tonygriffin_]

Charlie Brooker: "Here's the dream tech you thought you wanted...oops, it's nightmare tech!".

[@chrisnorman1902]

I remember back when this first came out, when it was just a new Charlie Brooker show on Channel 4, before it became a big worldwide Netflix thing

[@aidanrock8719]

"I member back in my day" ahh post I joke though I am the same way, it was great trying to explain the first episode to people

[@RBernsCarter]

It is honestly one of the greatest television shows to ever come out of the UK

[@TheCulturalBomb]

Brooker is still 🐐. Miss his wipe shows

[@Cynicayke]

And that's why the episodes are split into parts, because it used to have ads in between acts!

[@ge2719]

back before it turned into total crap.... i member

[@jancw]

This isn't the easiest show to try and guess/predict your way through. You'll be exhausted before the season is half over. Best to watch and just let it happen.

[@existenceisrelative]

It's bri'ish though, so their seasons don't use halves. It's all metric. Best you can do is estimate a good 9/16ths of a season, and _then_ be exhausted.

[@nutjobification]

They won't. All reactors do is try to guess what's going to happen next

[@hrishikeshXXV]

George cant handle that. He has to show off how his "quirky" brain works and how he's intelligent. Typical pseudo-intellectuals lmao

[@David-cg1lh]

​@@hrishikeshXXVwhat do you mean?

[@TheSofkujepanen]

@@hrishikeshXXVyeah, god forbid this youtube reactor dares to open his mouth and tell us what he’s thinking. It’s not like that’s pretty much his job. You’re so right, it would be so much better if he just shut up and watched this in silence while sometimes saying “wow” “damn” “that’s crazy” “ok”! We’re here just for the most braindead and surface level commenting with minimal reacting!

[@ThatGuyShawnJ]

Dear Simone, we all are thankful for your current existence!

[@PhatLayCes7825]

Holy shiiiid.. I can't believe someone is finally reacting to this. This show is clearly one of my favorite anthology TV shows. The special guests. The characters. The twists. The tech... and especially it's consciousness and ability to satire on current topics with just a pinch of near-futuristic ingenuity. A pleasant afternoon click!

[@Cynicayke]

Yeah, when I first started watching the Entire History of You, I assumed it would be like a more depressing version of Minority Report. Turns out, it was a more depressing version of Eternal Sunshine.

[@deathrowslag78]

Sometimes i feel like im living in an episode of Black Mirror

[@nickinskeep]

It's the prime minister episode isn't it

[@vighneshpillai7996]

😂​@@nickinskeep

[@liquidpza]

It's far worse than you suspect.

[@IgnisKhan]

Only sometimes?!

[@RaedViera]

I love the final irony from "The entire history of you", where the man who can see it all rathers to be blind.

[@tzuyd]

"I immediately dislike everyone in this room except for him" Oh, it'll be everyone inside this room soon enough

[@shotbybrady8793]

CineBinge drop 1st Black Mirror reaction and Me get big dopamine hit. Yay

[@SueSnellLives]

Brooker is very into calling out spectatorship as collusion and accessory to crime, and if you think about it, we are not that different from the audience in National Anthem. Some of us watched in glee to see if the PM would really go through with it, and others of us were sickened from the start but still watched to see if it would happen -- and are we ever sorry for it now! 😂

[@charlieg2262]

I love the actor who plays Liam, if you want to see him in another thing watch Dead Man's Shoes - it's a British crime film with Paddy Considine!

[@deathrowslag78]

Awesome film like all things Shane Meadows but Dead Man's Shoes is probably my favourite

[@nemo5225]

Black Mirror is a double entendre. The first meaning -- you're right Simone -- refers to the screens (phones and computers but originally TVs) before they are turned on in which we see ourselves. On a deeper, psychological level It also refers to that reflection of who we are but the darker aspect of our natures. Given that mirrors can also be scrying devices it has a note of the oraclular to it, as well.

[@JamesWhoMakesGames]

Charlie Brooker is great fun. He was a video games reviewer for PC Zone in the 90s, which had a really irreverent sense of humour, and that vibe has been a part of everything he's done ever since. His first show, Dead Set, is about a zombie outbreak at the Big Brother house. It's worth checking out.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

+1 for Dead Set.

[@Warlock_UK]

Dead set was so good!

[@davidmcleod5133]

I didn’t know he did Dead Set! It’s so obvious in hindsight though.

[@dwaynehusbands6960]

he also was a founding member of the CEX stores in england

[@Warlock_UK]

@@dwaynehusbands6960 Holy shit, I didn't know that! :D

[@Kenny-lz3gh]

Entire History of You is my favorite episode. Seeing a man's slow descent into madness and a woman's lies slowly unraveling. It had me at the edge of my seat the whole time

[@jthomann71]

Toby Kebbell, the star of Entire History of You, is a tremendous VO actor almost on the level of Andy Serkis.

[@arifchasan8611]

my favorite episode is "Shut up and dance" i am waiting for you guys to reacting to that however long i have to wait 🤣

[@Shyknit]

Mine is hated in the nation

[@TwinStripe]

Shut up and dance has one of the best 'rollercoaster drop' moments I've ever seen in a TV show - when you realise how wrong you've been reading it all you get a horrible empty feeling in the pit of your stomach. Awesome storytelling

[@Hey_Jamie]

OMG!!! I love that you guys decided to post on KZbin, especially as a binge! This is so exciting omg

[@KindaxPlankish]

oh wow can't wait to relive David Cameron rumours 😭💀

[@adamroodog1718]

rumours?

[@jannneumann5766]

@@adamroodog1718 Supposedly Cameron did the deed with a dead pig's mouth. It was an upper class frat boy student thing. The story was all over the UK media in 2015.

[@HaloOverOurDemise]

Rumours? He definitely did it

[@lesshero9982]

In 2015, a story began circulating that while at university, David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, did…something to a dead pig. Just search pig gate.

[@memecity9849]

The Entire History of You is one, if not the best episode of the series

[@meu02136]

The series of three yeah?

[@GrumpySoth]

I was confused, for a second I thought it was Rishi Sunak

[@charlieg2262]

I think it's my favourite Black Mirror episode (idk if thats what you meant, or if you did just mean series 1)

[@memecity9849]

@@charlieg2262 lol I should have said show. I forgot that places like the UK say series for seasons

[@bidishah]

The way that episode hit me…

[@fredarsenault8987]

Welcome to Charlie Booker s mind, the man is the best commentator of this modern distopia we live in

[@rabbitandcrow]

What a treat to see you guys react to this. I'd always just assumed you'd already seen it.

[@SkwithOv]

oo yay! it's my birthday today so this is extra fun :) excited to watch the whole show with you!

[@SkwithOv]

gotta be honest, i don't like the first episode and i think it would have been better to put a different one first in the series :/ i know some people started that one and didn't like it so they never watched the rest

[@AntonBA25]

Im super excited to see you get into Black Mirror! It's one of my favorite shows ever. It's cool how the fans have so many different favorite episodes. I hope you'll enjoy all of it! I think it right be right up George's alley.

[@carlathecinephile2108]

I’m so excited to watch this with you guys. I hope you continue through the entire series 🙂

[@manzell]

"It's biggest weakness is people's weakness" - remember this.

[@Trepanation21]

*The Entire History of You* is, to this day, one of my absolute favorite episodes of TV in general. The idea that our technology advances so quickly and becomes so prolific that our human culture (the nature of our traditions, our psychology, our inherent tendencies and how we interact with each other and engage with ourselves in private) simply cannot adapt in time in a healthy way. The idea that as an audience we get caught up in the "oh my gosh, did he kill him?" because we're _an audience,_ that we forget that the black mirror is a reflection of ourselves and our relationship with our technology. When our screen is off, we'd see our reflection. When the screen is on, we're engaged and indulging in the content, able to avoid reflecting. In this episode, we are witness to inescapable reflection with such scrutiny that the conflict of simple technology with our chemistry clashes in ways we weren't designed to navigate -- that we haven't taught ourselves how to navigate. We're _supposed_ to be able to let time soften the edges. We contemplate, and we reason, and we rationalize, and we grow, and our perspective changes, and we can _try_ to heal from wounds of our past. We can't grow, otherwise, as individuals or within a community. The Entire History of You wields our nature against our inclinations, and these simple conveniences of technology could unravel us. It's one of the first pieces of sci-fi that really helped me comprehend the idea that there might be some things that we simply cannot navigate without the cost simply being too great... And we wouldn't, maybe even _couldn't_ recognize that pitfall until we're already trapped in the hole.

[@foobee2]

There's a really cool detail I never noticed before. In the first episode, when the PM is woken up, there are cigarette burns on his night robe, on the lapel and shoulder. Tiny thing, but really cool.

[@michaelbuffaloe5694]

It's called Black Mirror because it's meant to be a dark reflection of our own reality

[@rabbitandcrow]

Plus screens.

[@jhornacek]

It's about the black screen of your phone that shows your own face reflected back to you.

[@anonymes2884]

It's both. The "black mirror" itself _is_ screens (that's beyond contestation, Brooker's said it in interviews) but the conceit of the show is dark reflections of our _technological_ society.

[@jhornacek]

@@anonymes2884 The creator of the show has literally said (multiple times) that the title is a reference to the black screens of our smartphones that reflect our faces back at ourselves. It's not about any new technology introduced in each episode - it's about the people and how they use/react to it.

[@LezArtist5iG]

Everyone is wrong in these comments. Black Mirror is a dark side remake of Outer Limits

[@AndyBestHP]

I dislike the recent discourse online that pre-netflix Black Mirror is 'bad' or technophobic. Pre-Netflix bleak Black Mirror is the best, and its least regarded episode, The Waldo Moment, is the most prophetic. Also, the White Christmas special is peak bleak and I've never been able to rewatch it.

[@christopherplummer1299]

"What is wrong with people!?" That sums up the Black Mirror series.

[@runninginharran]

"What is wrong with people?" It's called psychopathy. The world is flooded with psychopaths.

[@christopherplummer1299]

@@runninginharran Yup, just add new technology and what can possibly go wrong? 🤣😂😅😨😱

[@DukeTheSPO0K]

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHOW?" -Simone @ 3:03

[@exscape]

It's a fair question when you've only seen 5 minutes of episode 1! I really don't like how they placed it first, probably turned a lot of people off of a great show.

[@anonymes2884]

Fans of the show: "Yes".

[@shortdrink873]

@@exscapeit’s designed to dare you to keep watching. Putting it first is a statement of intent

[@notjustforhackers4252]

You wait till you get to "White Christmas", brilliantly messed up.

[@finsternis1986]

"White Christmas" is definitely one of the darker ones, and I'm gonna have to throw "Crocodile" in there too.

[@paulmatson661]

"Shut Up and Dance" kept me up nights, unable to sleep, just feeling awful for and about people.

[@finsternis1986]

@@paulmatson661 Yeah, the reveal on that one is a gut punch, 'cause you spend the whole episode feeling sorry for the protagonist, and then... 😬

[@TheDramakiddo]

sooo excited for these reactions omg. i used to be obsessed with black mirror

[@baloo680]

A lovely surprise not having to wait until monday night for my dose of cinebinge. Great stuff guys

[@ViviFuchs]

One thing I love about Black mirror is that so many of the episodes make you step back and actually think.

[@shadypelican]

Don't worry. Its just a TV show. Nothing like Black Mirror could ever REALLY happen. Hehe (nervous laughter)

[@Sgroh87]

If you like this, you will love Love Death & Robots. It’s also an anthology series about bleak futures, but the episodes are short (most are less than 20 minutes) and most are quite funny.

[@anonymes2884]

LD+R is great IMO but it's _mostly_ a very different type of show (it's often _not_ about "bleak futures" for instance). It's more just an anthology series adapted from SF&F short stories. But if someone likes "Black Mirror" _because_ they like SF&F then for sure, they may well like "Love, Death + Robots" too.

[@Sgroh87]

@@anonymes2884 You don't think that, for example, Sonnie's Edge, Three Robots, Suits, Yogurt, Aquila Rift, Helping Hand, Zima Blue, and Alternate Histories - all Season 1 episodes - fit the "technology has led us down the wrong path" thematic concept that Black Mirror espouses? I guess it's unfair to say that the series are as similar as I implied, but reducing it to "just a [sci-fi and fantasy] anthology series" takes away from the similarities that are there.

[@SM-qr4kw]

Can't wait for y'all to watch all the seasons!!

[@OneAndOnlyOmar]

I’m incredibly ecstatic to see you guys reacting to this show!!

[@DoctorsDriveClassics]

Glad that you're reacting to these - they are so original and unique.

[@DanielLopez-ks9eh]

You’re right that usually technology is not good or bad until people’s personal choices intervene but when it was designed a decision was made about what to incentivize. The grain episode makes us think about how harmful memory access could be but we don’t have to stretch our imagination that hard because we already have an early version of that in the conversations we keep in our messaging apps and we already see it being used in negative ways

[@kJ922-h3j]

The social commentary of the first one, the fact that he knew no one would be in even the busiest part of central London so he could release her 30 mins before the prime minister did it, is depressingly true about society 😂

[@that.ll_do_pig]

I personally think that was a brilliant choice for the first episode of the series. We all watched just like everybody in the episode glued to their TV and we came back for more of the show even after _that_ .

[@David_Beames]

Back mirror refers to a mirror held to where humanity is heading particularly regarding tech and it's black, also like a screen that's not turned on and just reflects you.

[@applejax1017]

I am soooooo happy you are watching Black Mirror!!! Can't wait to go on this journey with you!

[@emucat1]

Toby Kebbell the lead in the last one was brilliant in _Dead Man's Shoes_ next to Paddy Considine. It's a huge film over here and should come up in your list at some point.

[@Before-fu6yu]

David Cameron is that you???

[@patrickfoster8335]

The thing I love about black mirror is how it works in the grey areas. And how the black mirror....shows us what we are or could be.

[@blopblop7311]

This is amazing you guys are doing these from season 1!!! This shit blew my mind, so well done, so interesting

[@nacrid2314]

that second episode DESTROYS ME EVERYTIME

[@lauramearns1913]

So excited that you're watching these!

[@unicyclist97]

I love the way this show encourages important discussions about our present and future.

[@tim_rizzo]

Black Mirror in a nutshell: Here's some interesting new tech. See people use it to f everything up.

[@MrNikolidas]

The mere fact you're discussing the moral, ethical and social issues means the show did exactly what it was made to do.

[@Wraiven22]

The show gets a lot less depressing when it stops being a British show which I think was mistake, but every season has at least a couple of phenomenal episodes

[@chanceneck8072]

I love how people who react late to Black Mirror are like "Oh look, it's the guy from Get Out!" , when back when Get Out came out, all of us were like "Oh look, it's the guy from Black Mirror!" 😅🤭🤦‍♂️

[@theoriginalbreakage]

yes please keep uploading these to youtube!

[@AndyHarrisGoogle]

Shows on British commercial TV have title cards at the start and end of commercial breaks. Hence the End of Part One and Part Two interludes.

[@rpmfla]

By accident I watched season 3 episode 1 (titled "Nosedive") of Black Mirror first, and absolutely loved it, so that got me into the series. If I had seen season 1 episode 1 (The National Anthem) first I don't know if I would have wanted to watch more. Just brutal, and unfortunately not separated from reality enough to make it less disturbing. While also brutal in its way, Nosedive remains as my favorite Black Mirror episode.

[@atomic_hok]

Season 3 is definitely the best season in my opinion. Nosedive, playtest, shut up and dance and san Junipero are all really damn good episodes

[@realsies9387]

The same thing happened to me. I saw the show on Netflix and just pressed play and it played the first episode of the latest season for some reason and it got me hooked. Once I realized it was not on season one I went back but yeah, if I hadn’t seen that episode first I probably wouldn’t have kept watching.

[@lashier13]

Yeah, that's always been my theory as to why Netflix presents them in the way that it does, most recent first. Probably correctly assuming that an episode that, ahem, climaxes with a PM fucking a pig would turn off most normal folk. I watched National Anthem first and immediately binged the other 5 episodes that were available at the time. But I guess I'm just not like other girls. (Nevermind that I'm a guy.)

[@davidmcleod5133]

Same, re. Nosedive. It is the one that is closest to our current reality in my opinion, which makes it the most frightening to me.

[@atomic_hok]

@@davidmcleod5133 closest to our current reality you mean already happening in China

[@davidmcleod5133]

I’m so excited to watch you two react to this! I grew up on 80’s and 90’s horror anthologies, and nothing has ever quite unsettled me the way this show does. Season 3, episode 1 gives me waking nightmares, because I see it coming true daily.

[@bararobberbaron859]

Really taking 'I can't forget about them/I can't get them out of my head' to the next level there!

[@dogstar75]

The 'End of Part one' and 'Part Two' screens are the buffer screens each side of the commercial breaks in the original broadcast of the show on Channel 4 in the UK. This was obviously before Netflix took over production.

[@baronsengir187]

Just because you are paranoid does not mean you are wrong.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

True.

[@hippiecheapskate]

Doesn't mean you are right either. Paranoia is only evidence of paranoia

[@trappestarrgaming3422]

Some ppl wanna be right so bad they dnt care wat it takes or destroys

[@mirkoyossen31]

Toby Kebbell (the main character from The Entire History of you) also plays Koba in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

[@MadcapMatt]

Fun idea for the Bandersnatch Black Mirror is you host a poll and have pateron vote for one of you to be in control of the choices made during the movie.

[@michaelbugner7011]

I love the episode with the social media thing everyone uses. Can't wait to see you watch that one. And the episode "hang the dj." That one is really sweet.

[@mattseaton3521]

I wish I could re-watch the first ever episode of this show for the first time again. Something changed with what TV could be when this show got commissioned.

[@Dadmcdadface]

“White Bear” on season 2 is phenomenal. Probably my favourite episode of the show.

[@mr_k4tz]

Definitely a standout episode

[@HaloOverOurDemise]

I remember when this first came out, the first two series will always be my favourite. Its so jarring.

[@Stabby666]

Black Mirror is genuinely one of the best TV shows ever in my view. Every episode is completely different, but there are threads that do track through episodes. Like the song the sings in the Credits episode, and some names and places. It's really creative.

[@The_Catnip]

The first episode TRAUMATIZED ME, I felt sick for a few days when I thought about it (and I tried very hard not to think about it lmao).

[@GuyWithACamera23]

The first 2 series and the Christmas special were shown on Channel 4 here in the UK which has adverts, that's why you see "End of Part 1" and so on. Another fun fact, Jordan Peele wanted Daniel Kaluuya to be in Get Out because of his performance in this.

[@alansevern290]

The reason there are breaks in the programmes is because there were advertisement breaks at these points 👍🏼 🇬🇧❤️🇨🇦

[@Huesos138]

God, Black Mirror used to be so good. The more American it got, the worse it became. I miss it so much.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

I thought the last season was fantastic. Most people's judgements are heavily influenced by nostalgia for the early seasons

[@Huesos138]

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 I think it was subpar and feel the show has gotten worse and worse since season 3 or 4. And don't dismiss my opinions by lazy psychologizing.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

@@Huesos138 I disagree, I watched all the seasons at the same time and all seasons had great episodes and not so great episodes that were still good. Yall just hankering over the older seasons Because of nostalgia and you not liking change.

[@Huesos138]

@@enadegheeghaghe6369 I'm not a very nostalgic person. Every season has a good episode, but the overall quality has diminished over time. It's very clear. It's less well-acted and less challenging than it used to be, and I'm not alone in saying it. Some of the episodes of the earlier seasons would never be made today as the show is now. I'll avoid the lazy psychologizing that I could be doing here.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

@@Huesos138 Hahaha, many people always claim recent seasons of shows are worse than earlier seasons with very few exceptions. Just like every generation claims that their music is much worse than the music of previous generations. The truth is that both good and bad music have always existed just like good and movies or TV shows. That doesn't mean it's always true. I watched the so called bad seasons and they were not only enjoyable, they had some fantastic episodes. I watched the so called great seasons and surprisingly found some meh episodes mixed in with very good ones. And yes there is some subpar acting in some episodes of all the seasons (if you can bring yourself to admit the truth) I had a similar experience with other franchises, people kept telling me that recent Star wars was terrible and horrible and the original trilogy were absolutely great. I watched all the them and was disappointed that the original trilogy were far from the perfect movies people made them out to be. Some of the acting was just as terrible and some of the dialogue was cringey. Without the benefit of nostalgia, I wasn't overly impressed with the early movies just like I wasn't overly repulsed by the newer ones. But many fans act like the earlier movies are unquestionable masterpieces.

[@AtigunAlaska]

Episode 2 broke my heart when I first saw it. Also, The Sims had an online game in the early 2000s where people could use bicycles to earn credits. Ep. 2 is a critique of the lengths people will go to to escape the "mundane" work existence, whether that's going to work for a 9 to 5 or being a drone pedaling a bike everyday all day. Place your existence as KZbin content creators and making it go to its extreme end. There's also obvious gendered aspects to the show and the "fame" it provides. In the end, the main character's ethics and anger are subsumed for the benefits of whatever the show offers. The realness of love (or connection with the girl) does not measure up to the appeal of real orange juice, a better apartment with no forced ads, or the ability to have whatever the OJ and apartment represents in their world.

[@yvonnesanders4308]

The window is a screen. He exchanged one prison cell for a bigger better looking one

[@Wizardofgosz]

I wonder if Simone figured out that Abi (pronounced Abbey) was played by Jessica Brown Findlay FROM Downton Abbey. The character's name HAD to be a shoutout to Downton.

[@JustAMagicDuck]

At the end of 15 Million Merits, Bing sold out everything for a bigger, fancier box. There’s a hidden meaning there, I think.

[@LoSTRaMaiR]

Awesome Really hope you continue I’m not completely caught up but have seen 4 or 5 seasons

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

An underrated gem from Charlie Brooker was A Touch of Cloth. It's a spoof he wrote about British cop shows but you don't need to have seen any to find it funny

[@phueal]

The Piers Morgan scene of that show is one of my favourite TV moments.

[@Deimos2k5]

@@A-small-amount-of-peas "He's down at Dat Dere Yoot Centre"

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

@@phueal 🤮

[@JoeyAces]

This show is amazing. Every episode. Sooooo well cast, written, produced.

[@mwalsh47]

Yeah, this show took a massive swing right out of the gate with that first episode. Incredibly ballsy to lead off with The National Anthem as your series premiere.

[@thetankgarage]

Jessica Brown Findlay did Hamlet a few years ago, the girl in the second episode. Her interpretation of Ophelia is my absolute favorite I have ever seen and I've seen a lot. Not an obsessive amount but enough to have thoughts on Shakespeare interpretations :). It always seemed very hard to me to make one of Shakespeare's female roles stand out but she nailed it. Up there for me with Emma Thompson in Much Ado About Nothing. If you can find it. I implore you. If you have any interest in Shakespeare at all, or even if you don't. Find it and watch it. Her and Andrew Scott in the "break up" scene, their acting got so stuck in my head I think I watched that scene daily for almost 3 months. The nuances from them both was just epic.

[@djJaXx101]

I always liked the name “Black Mirror.” It cleverly refers to the dark, reflective surfaces of our phones, monitors, and other screens when they’re turned off, symbolizing how they mirror our thoughts, feelings, fears, and insecurities.

[@maxtrix2370]

To me, the show represents the amazing positive benefits of what the future of technology can hold. But every storyline focuses on the negatives which can ONLY exist in the context of having these new technological advances. It's a clever way of both showing an innovative technology which might exist in the near future, mixed with a story of the common folk, which end up with an issue that directly corresponds with said technology. Pretty fun, pretty scary, all of which makes the show fun to watch