Black Mirror

Gosh, there’s just something about Black Mirror. It’s out of the world, dude.

I just got the chance to watch the latest season of black mirror; season seven—it’s mindblowing. Just, mindblowing.

This is the first time I was actually putting off on consuming a piece of content which I was really, really, and really looking forward to. I didn’t think I was ready; I didn’t think I was ready to do it justice—to be able to view it properly and in a in-depth manner.

I’ve really been trying to make a mental tier-list of sort of my favorite episodes across the seven seasons, but honestly, I cannot. I mean it, I’m not joking.

All of my other favorite shows like Rick & Morty, Ray, Decoupled, Little Things, and a whole laundry list of the others ones, there are objectively (not really, more like subjectively) better episodes, but with Black Mirror, it’s either that a episode is just a mind boggling concotion of my favorite things; an aphrodisiac of sorts for me, or they’re just, well, crap. There’s no in between.

The episode ‘Plaything’ blew my mind. I mean it. It absolutely, absolutely, and absolutely re-ignited my passion for living. I went fucking goo-goo-ga-ga over it. It was like leaving a kid in a candy shop. I think that was the highlight of my month, which doesn’t really mean much, it’s been a shitty miserable existence this month, but keeping that aside, just, hats off.

I can go for hours, and hours, and hours about Black Mirror. It’s just, fuck, I’m too dumb. I’m not worthy enough to be able to watch and understand the beauty of this show. Let me give you an example: In Plaything, the creator of the simulated sentient life went nuts, and apparently mentioned something about “Basilisks” (the snake, I think) to the management of the company he was working for, which oddly sounded pretty close to Ubisoft, the company. I knew it was something deeper. I knew for a fact that, that’s sort of an easter egg, or had a deeper meaning, but I didn’t know it. Then I went on reddit, and found it out, and god damnit, it’s so fucking interesting. Roko's basilisk. It actually fucking predicted the ending of the episode, like what the fuck. Wow.**

Then I randomly, that is, today, started rewatching some of the older episodes, and they are fucking, wow.

Honestly, I think Season seven was one of the best seasons. I don’t think I have very fond memories of season six to be honest—it sort of left a bad taste in my mouth. It was, I think, the worst season so far. All the episodes were pretty mediocre. Yeah, they were fun to watch, but not, you know, Black Mirror quality.

‘Joan is Awful’ felt more like a R&M trope or something, and the rest, they’re just shit.

Season seven also has an incredibly shitty episode—’Bête Noire’—it honestly might be one of the shittiest episode of Black Mirror I’ve ever seen. Period. Hotel Reverie was sort of meh. Not too good, not too bad. Sort of shit when I think about it.

But honestly, I think I’m in love. With Black Mirror, you idiot, not a person; I’m quite a freak of nature, and I take pride in that, haha.

P.S. Hey, weirdo, if you’ve made it this far, for whatever reason, go watch the episode ‘Fifteen Million Merits’ from Black Mirror right now, or like, whenever you can pay full attention to it. I mean, full attention. No Instagram, no Snapchat, no whatever. It’s from the first season of Black Mirror. That IS Black Mirror. That, is one of the most brutally realistic descrption of modern society which I’ve seen.