Watching lots of black mirror you already know everything must be connected somehow and it must be a dark story.
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It s a post apocalyptic tale told mostly from one person s perspective.
Now it was directed well with a good writing although some plotholes.
As i was watching metalhead i could not figure out the purpose of the dogs and where they came from.
Definitely one of the worst episodes of imho.
The smithereens ending is fittingly bleak for black mirror but especially resonant in today s culture.
That being said metalhead is my favourite episode because it s a thriller a familiar genre.
The humans are going to get something important from the warehouse.
The reveal at the end is about the contrast between human emotion and feeling and the unfeeling unreasonable nature of the machine.
My favorite part of black mirror is how episodes build up the plots into a fantastic unexpected twist or a gut wrenching ending.
For context i recently started watching black mirror and accidentally watched season 4 first thinking it was season 1.
In addition a lot of the technology from the whole show was made by the same company.
You may be left wondering who got shot at the end of the episode and what happened next.
So important to them that they are willing to risk their lives for it.
If all of the episodes are connected then this one is very likely at the very end of the timeline for the real world and non cookie society.
Once you start trying to guess how things are connected this episode is a bit too easy to figure out for viewers.
Then after watching black museum it is pointed out that all of the episodes of black mirror happened during the same time period in the same universe.
It s a story of survival and of sheer desperation.
I think the black and white drives home that its a machine world now.
Story and ending explained we ve already mentioned the effect of the black and white filter enhancing the grim post apocalyptic thematic setting of metalhead s world.
So i wasn t aware of black mirror s story telling style.
Metalhead s lack of context totally stripped that away.
If black mirror was supposed to be a seriea about a generic robot apocalypse it would be good but i don t want black mirror to be a generic tech bad horror.
In the big twist of white.