This is Black Mirror as usual. Possibly not as provoking then some earlier seasons, but still generally good. Here are my comments per episode:
- This is exactly what our life is going towards, unfortunately: ads everywhere and all the time, and people doing crazy, unhealthy and/or degrading stuff for money just for the sake of staying afloat and alive.
- I sometimes feel like the world was switched in a similar way. I remember some minor thing to be X, but it's somehow Y. Just another proof we are living in a simulation.
- The twist before the end was... Unexpected and powerful. But not sure if I understood the actual ending, though. How did Brandy call into the recording? And more importantly, how did the sex work earlier, considering that Brandy was a woman, but in the movie she was a man?
- Don't do drugs, kids, and then you would not use a PS/2 port for connecting your brain to a PC. I know, it may be tempting, but we do have more modern interfaces.
- The "plot twist" in the middle was kind of predictable, but it was still a good bittersweet story. I would even say this is an unexpectedly "positive" episode, unlike most of Black Mirror episodes, which are dystopian and depressive.
- That's just a great example of good sci-fi. "Peak cinema" as they say now. I honestly can't say anything bad about this episode. In fact, I would not mind this concept being expanded into a standalone show. I mean, how was the life of the crew before this episode? And continuation of the episode could be an interesting separate series as well.
