I could never get into Black Mirror because every episode felt like a poorly edited pilot, where the actors weren't into their roles yet and never would be since it was a one-off and they'd stretch like at most 15 minutes of story out into an hour of not particularly good filler that went on way too long. Like I felt like Love, Death, + Robots and Black Mirror were functionally the same thing and both had about the same amount of story and content per episode, but where LD+R trimmed it a little too tight Black Mirror would just keep going and going without anything there.

[–] git@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You might find Inside No. 9 a better anthology series to watch. Less “wot if your phone was evil” and more surrealist cross-genre drama. It has a consistent cast and while one or two episodes are weak, overall it’s quite enjoyable.

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

oo this is the show I was trying to remember where smelly gabe locks everyone in a cupboard and burns the house down