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I knew the bear had so much potential from the first season and I was willing to bet it will get better and better. This episode proves it without a doubt. This is a great show.

What an insane ride of an episode that was. I don't think I've ever watched a tv episode about a family that felt so real. I started thinking that I would be exactly like the guy with the glasses, cracking jokes and trying to lighten the mood. Like I was there. Every newly introduced character acted and talked exactly like you would feel they do. I don't think people realize how hard is it to write dialogue that flows so naturally and feels so authentic. The acting is crazy good too.

Honestly, one of the best tv episodes I've watched in a minute. The next episode is a breath of fresh air as well. The bear you are spoiling us with this michelin star worthy entertainment. Please continue to do so.

Black mirror always had very interesting ideas but lacked in execution. However, there are episodes in this show that are pretty cool. Unfortunately, every year it gets progressively worse. This year I was excited that maybe this will change, but boy was I wrong judging from the first episode.

This episode feels like it was written by a bunch of teenagers who brainstormed an idea that would look cool and didn't add anything to it to make it feel real or intriguing. The script is an awful, boring, unfunny mess. Dialogue and acting are also bad. I wish my alternate reality self who acts as me warned me so that I wouldn't waste my time on this because no one is getting entertained by watching this nonsense, or watching me watching it.

This is a below average movie on all aspects I'm afraid.

Directing is boring, the acting is bad, especially bad is the actor of young Otto. The chemistry between the characters is non-existent (even Tom Hanks who I always adore seems one dimensional).

Script and dialogue are mediocre and predictable. The black comedy never works because the black part is toothless and the funny part is not even there. But worse of all... the soundtrack. What a godawful soundtrack. There is music where there should be silence, and silence where there should be music. When they use music it's either playful tunes to show how you should laugh at the grumpiness of the protagonist and cheerful, sappy pop songs straight out of a coca cola ad, played at the most emotional moments effectively removing any depth, real emotionality or subtlety. I don't think I've ever watched a movie that I could hear and recognize so clearly how out of place are the choices of songs, music and their timing, like I could in this movie.

(Edit: I just saw Thomas Newman, who is my favorite composer, wrote the music for this film and I am so baffled. I want to believe he had nothing to do with the sound editing in this film.)

Anyways, maybe the original movie is better, (in hindsight I should have watched it instead) but I believe you should avoid this one.

Now I empathize with the protagonist grumpily looking at the movie's ratings and reading the reviews. Have people lost their taste?