The Netflix Lounge Club

[Perfect Cell]

I plan to start watching this tomorrow. Today I think I have heat stroke.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Season 1, Episode 1: The National Anthem -

Spoiler

...I've never seen a more accurate summary of the current news cycle, and how it's intermixed with the modern world and modern technology. And it came from a man ****ing a pig. Putting aside the fact that a British Prime Minister was accused of ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING SIMILAR, making this episode prophetic, everything about this episode was eerily spot on. The idea that we'll all miss what's going on around us, because we're too glued to our various screens. Or the lengths people will go to twist or prevent news from reaching us. And how futile it always ends up being.

...That's a solid start to the series.

 

[Kane52630]

Oh yeah I should have told you to watch the first episode last.... it's the least "Black Mirrory" episode.

 

[Perfect Cell]

...I don't know how to take that, and it unsettles me.

 

[Kane52630]

oh yeah... be prepared to be depressed/mind f***ed.

 

[flickchick85]

Yeah it's weird, I barely associate that episode with the series. As twisted as it was, it seems almost...basic compared to everything that follows, like it was only dipping its toes in the shallow end of the Black Mirror pool, lol.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Rory Kinnear is really underrated.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Season 1, Episode 2: Fifteen Million Merits -

Spoiler

I have the sudden urge to smash my phone and laptop, and then run screaming into the woods. Or hunt down Simon Cowell. The idea that people buy things that aren't real, but are all just some digital imagining... I've done that. I've literally bought little digital clothes for my little Xbox One avatar, and felt good about it. I need to lie down for a while and think about some things.

...****ing Miis.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Guts]

Fifteen Million Merits.

Spoiler

The song Selma sings when she was on Hotshot to get her off the bike was Abba's I Have A Dream. Abby said she was just singing If Anyone Knows What Love in the bathroom, just so other people couldn't hear her pee. But for Selma it could have been a song that she sung to herself to keep her out of depression or to keep herself hopeful in that monotonous world.

[YT]WYTrj9D0w9s[/YT]

 

[harlequinade]

Season 1, Episode 2: Fifteen Million Merits -

Spoiler

I have the sudden urge to smash my phone and laptop, and then run screaming into the woods. Or hunt down Simon Cowell. The idea that people buy things that aren't real, but are all just some digital imagining... I've done that. I've literally bought little digital clothes for my little Xbox One avatar, and felt good about it. I need to lie down for a while and think about some things.

...****ing Miis.

One of the show's best. That dude there was better than in Get Out

 

[Guts]

Season 1, Episode 2: Fifteen Million Merits -

Spoiler

I have the sudden urge to smash my phone and laptop, and then run screaming into the woods. Or hunt down Simon Cowell. The idea that people buy things that aren't real, but are all just some digital imagining... I've done that. I've literally bought little digital clothes for my little Xbox One avatar, and felt good about it. I need to lie down for a while and think about some things.

...****ing Miis.

One funny thing I read about this episode is that one of the writers was a host for a X-Factor spin off show.

 

[Guts]

Season 3 episode 1 Nosedive.

Spoiler

I've heard about how China plans to have a social credit system put in place by 2020, but this episode was definitely a cautionary tale for how messed up society can be from something like that. People can't even speak their minds without worry of getting a low rating, if your rating is low enough you will lose your job, and Dennis Reynolds for certain would not survive in that world.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Season 1, Episode 3: The Entire History of You -

Spoiler

So, yeah... the idea that everyone around you, including yourself, can perfectly recall everything they've ever observed is pretty horrifying. On base principle it sounds harmless. If it's an accurate memory, then there's no harm in that, since it is a true event, and we can't fight the past. But in reality, people are paranoid loons, and this would only play to that. No argument could ever end well. No one would ever have any true sense of privacy. Every embarrassing moment that keeps you awake at 3am is suddenly in vivid HD 24/7. Doctor Doom here suffers a breakdown (which it is implied has happened before) simply because he cannot help himself from picking at the little details of his memories. The fact that his assumptions turn out to be correct make everything all the more worse. He says to Doctor Who that it's better to be proven right, but there was never a scenario where that was going to be true. So... better to be "gouged" then. Even though the episode ends before you find out if he gave himself brain damage or not.

 

[Reek]

Watched all of OZARK... its pretty good.... Bateman is great... I am going to launder so much money now.

this thread...

I DIDN'T HEAR NO BELL

 

[Perfect Cell]

The last Netflix series I watched was The Defenders. I didn't hate it, nor did I really like it much. Other people seem to like it, though. It's hard to say who's wrong, or if there really is a concept of "right" or "wrong" when it comes to subjective opinions like this.

It's other people. They're wrong.