Another solid season. I’m so hit and miss at watching these.

Social media. Virtual reality writ real (they do that a lot this season). Extortion. Life after death (of a sorts). Bugs. Politics.

It has it all.

It’s fascinating to me how Black Mirror at once manages to explore such a wide variety of potential future technology–and at the same time have the same little VR dots on the head in episode after episode. 😄

Onward!

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That’s such a delight of a season, mostly due to Fern Brady, although I enjoyed the entire cast.

The contestants:

• Dara Ó Briain - Goes about the weirdest things with a smile on his face.
• Fern Brady - Fern is delightful. She’s a fun one to look up her independent work.
• John Kearns - He constantly had the look of ‘what have I gotten myself into’. Really the whipping boy for this season.
• Munya Chawawa - Zimbabwean ___. Hda a fun way of working around the tasks.
• Sarah Millican - Alternatively delightfully dry and actually angry at times.

One more!

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No way.

So many quotes. So many ducks. So many chances to make Alex do weird things.

It was another great series. I love this show. At some point I’m going to run out… and have to watch the New Zealand and now Australian versions! (I can’t wait).

The contestants:

• Ardal O’Hanlon - The older one / the Irish one. Always seemed up for doing the wackiest thing and I loved his sense of humor.
• Bridget Christie - The chaotic one. She seemed to actually be driving Alex up the wall as the series went on, which is saying something.
• Chris Ramsey - The relatable one. Gives you something to grown you among all the other oddballs.
• Judi Love - The one who loses at just about every task. And she’s just so delightful about it–and about making Alex do much of the tasks for her.
• Sophie Duker - The younger one and my favorite of the series. She’s just got a delightfully weird way of looking at the tasks.

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Onward we go!

Only barely long than season 2, it still manages to pack quite a bunch. We have the prescient one (given all the news about LLMs/AIs), the one where the world’s ended (or may be a world has ended), the politics are stupid–ha ha–one, and the twisted and all connected one.

This is quite the show. How did I miss this?

I’m looking forward to season 2!

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Watched with someone that didn’t know what the show was about. A few minutes of “okay, so it’s about the moon landing.” And then the moment when he speaks… Delightful.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about STOP READING NOW AND GO WATCH THIS SHOW.

I’m waiting.

…

Okay.

The idea of an alternate history where the Soviets made it to the moon is so fascinating. And it’s only made all the better by all the character moments and (surprisingly to me) other historical events not on the moon we see along the way.

It’s such a good show.

I’m really looking forward to what they do with Season 2. What changes… and what stays the same?

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Wow. That really went quite a fascinating direction. I was wondering where they were going for the last few seasons, but really digging into the aftermath of the season 1 hacks + another big target + dealing with the fallout of the Dark Army + digging deeper into Elliot’s troubles.

Man. Quite a season.

I had my doubts in the run up to the final few episodes, but I think they really stuck the landing. This was quite a show, through and through. Well worth the watch.

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