Examining Black Mirror
Social Science Fiction
English - November 12, 2020 03:25 - 42 minutes - 40.9 MBScience Fiction Fiction Science Social Sciences nerd sci-fi politics fantasy video games Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
I spend a whole lot of time griping about Black Mirror but I do really like the show. I close with some of my favorite episodes.
Notes:
1:53 - Everybody's who's seen this episode immediately knew what I was talking about and their mind just went to a dark place.
2:59 - Spoiler Warning: I will discuss the plots and twists of all the episodes I cover.
3:52 - Fridge logic is one of my favorite terms from TV Tropes (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeLogic)
4:33 - Fifteen Million Merits
7:00 - The Entire History of You
8:27 - Shut Up and Dance
11:38 - Nosedive
14:36 - Men Against Fire
16:50 - The movie Arrival has this same problem for me.
17:19 - San Junipero
24: 23 - My favorite episodes, starting with White Bear
28:22 - National Anthem
30:41 - Black Museum
32:03 - Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too (Oxford comma is omitted because that's how the title is officially written and yes, it killed me to leave it out).
33:09 - The Waldo Moment.
34: 38 - It was 2013.
36:15 - Side Rant (spoiler for Ender's Game).
40:32 - The oppression of the Uyghurs in China is a horrifying tragedy and should be receiving more media attention.
41:09 - I highly recommend Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
Intro and outro music: "Swim below as Leviathans" by Fireproof_Babies (featuring Ben Shewmaker) is licensed under CC BY.