alfredsmith

First off I'll admit I only watched five episodes of Black Mirror. The oft used claim for this series is that it's a "contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone ". I've watched The Twilight Zone and it's far superior to Black Mirror. Obviously Black Mirror had better affects. After all it had the benefit of 60 years worth of technology improvements but the producers and writers didn't take advantage of it. In fact they squandered it.

The stories are incredibly morbid, banal and pretentious. The few episodes I watched were difficult to watch to the end. There's nothing uplifting here.

The characters are difficult to empathise with because they come across as total fools. The series main premise seems to be that we're doomed to becoming complete idiots in the near future due to technology. I don't believe that. In fact I believe in the exact opposite.

This started off as an incredibly great show. The first few episodes were absolutely brilliant. But now ..... It's become a dud. The biggest problem is the story dragging on and on and on. It may have been a great two season show but now they're milking it for all it's worth and it's not working. To be blunt you can skip many episodes because there are times when nothing actually happens. Frankly it's only use now is a cure for insominia. Secondly, apart from Yvonne Strahovski, the acting is over-the-top and I've tired of Elizabeth Moss. I've just had enough.

This could have been really good, but they blew it. There far too many better shows out there. Don't waste your time with this clanger.

The star of this is Gabrielle, the young girl. The rest of the cast did a credible job and it would be easy to just watch all eight half-hour episodes in a row, but I watched it over two nights.

Two things were a little annoying.

One - for a series about making music, the music itself was plain awful. Actually it wasn't even good enough to be called awful.

Two - the ending was a real letdown. I guess that a second season must be in the works. I hope so.

Still worth a watch though.