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[Spyro: Ripto's Rage! & Spyro: Year of the Dragon]

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[The Shape of Water]

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[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]

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[Brooklyn 99]

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[Community]

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[The Exorcist on Fox]

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[silent/early sound film]

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(Panda and Rintaro, Polar Bear Cafe)

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Black Mirror is filled with people I absolutely adore but NHF "technology is going to warp your minds, bring out the worst of humanity, and probably kill you all."

The episode “San Junipero” is an exception to the series’ general bleakness, if that has anyone you like in it. (And because the Internet, apologies if the rec has been foisted on you...)

NP, that is indeed the one everyone tells me to watch.

I laughed at someone's comment after it won the Emmy - "Casual viewers are going to be in for a rude awakening when they go to check out the rest of the series"

I have a similar problem with it. It's a *good* show, I want to like it, but the unending march of bleak worst-case scenarios really gets me down.
Part of me even feels like there's something almost lazy about it, because I think pushing ideas to the maximum dystopic side is not actually the most challenging type of sci-fi storytelling.

This is a great point, and I totally agree. I've only watched five or six episodes, but there've been at least two of them where, as I was watching it, the episode reached a point where I felt like it should end, but then it just kept going and I ended up feeling it was too obviously bleak and dystopic. Whereas if they'd stopped sooner, it would've left a lot more ambiguity and complexity there.

Overall I usually end up feeling like there's something a little lazy about Black Mirror (despite it being pretty decent overall), specifically because the writing is too pessimistic and doomsay-ish, which ends up feeling simplistic and accusatory rather than complex and genuine.

Exactly! I come out feeling "well THAT's awful", but it lacks the ambiguity, like you said. Some episodes are better than others, but it's mostly a show that leaves me kind of dry, and whenever I go watch more (if I watch more) it feels like more of a morbid "what will it be now" sort of way than any real enjoyment.

^dangit that was me, I didn't notice I got signed out

it feels like more of a morbid "what will it be now" sort of way than any real enjoyment.

Hahaha, yup, this is totally me, too.

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