POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR BLACK MIRROR SEASON SIX BELOW!
I’m a big fan of Black Mirror but I think I’m the odd one our when it comes to my favourites. My all time favourite out of all the seasons was Metalhead. I loved its Hitchcockesqueness.
I’ve decided on Mazey Day as my favourite episode of season 6. I love the theme of how being exploited (whether that’s being paid a pittance in Starbucks, or being hounded by paparazzi) can turn people into monsters.
What were your thoughts on the latest season? What are your favourite episodes?
Honestly it’s hard to pick, it’s such a great season. I really liked Joan is Awful, Beyond the Sea and Demon 79. Out of those 3, I’d say maaaaaaybe Joan is Awful? Not only was it a critique of predatory capitalism and a dig at Netflix, but the reality level switcheroo at the end was great fun.
Loved the critique too, and it brought up a genuinely interesting question about our image in the age of improving CGI and deepfakes. It gets brought up in Bojack Horseman too, where the performance of a CGI likeness of an actor :::ends up winning the actor an Oscar.:::
I was watching that episode with a lawyer, and at the end of it he goes, “moral of the story is to live in the EU” haha. Turns out GDPR would walk all over that data mining.
The first episode of the newest season made me LOL a few times.
I LOVED when they reveal they’re a level up from reality and Michael Cera is talking about how no one in reality would live in a house like that. It’s something I’ve thought about in so many BM episodes, they’re very self aware!
Both Joan is Awful and Demon 79 were fabulous!
Demon 79 was definitely my second favourite!! Absolutely loved it. The microaggressions leading to violent fantasies, and the violence juxtaposed with the most outrageously dressed man making sassy remarks. I thought the music was used really well in it too. Bright Eyes while they walk out together hand in hand because she decided an infinite vacuum was no different to her life as a minority in a snobby department store. It feels triumphant somehow. And the Boney M track when she walks out of the shop in the red leather jacket was heavenly!
