{"id":45611,"date":"2018-01-11T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45611"},"modified":"2020-08-05T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:05:04","slug":"the-worst-part-about-black-mirror-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45611","title":{"rendered":"The worst part about Black Mirror season 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s only six episodes, and I am already finished with all of them.\u00a0 Lord only knows how much longer it\u2019s going to be until there\u2019s another season, and even still, new episodes are going to have to be written and filmed and edited and this is maybe one of the only flaws with entire seasons being dropped on Netflix, when you get engrossed in something and blow through it in just a few sittings, you\u2019re left feeling empty and unsatisfied at the prospect of there being no more on the horizon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I was super excited when I heard that Black Mirror<\/em> was coming back for a fourth season, so I gave it the excitement treatment: avoiding absolutely anything and everything about it until the date it released, so that I could be completely blind and have zero preconceived notions going into it.\u00a0 Frankly, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any way to possibly enjoy things any more than doing that, because just about everything gives way too much information<\/a> away.<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, I enjoyed season 4.\u00a0 The show invariably had the challenge of producing fresh content despite being four seasons in, and I think the challenge proved to be such at times, but overall by the time I had gone through all six episodes, I was left with a feeling that I was sad that there was no more, and wishing that there will be more in the future, sooner rather than later.<\/span><\/p>\n

I do think the season started off with a bang, with USS Callister, an absolute marvel of an episode that was a spectacular blend of a good story, excellent acting and really stellar visuals, with the definite homage to old episodes of Star Trek<\/em>.\u00a0 Contrary to the start of the entire series where there\u2019s a fairly unanimous agreement that The National Anthem<\/em> was a terrible way to start the series, season 4 definitely hits the nail on the head by starting out with their best episode first.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t to say that the rest of them are bad by any stretch of the imagination; but I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be able to say with conviction that any of them were better than USS Callister.\u00a0 Personally, I think the fourth episode, Kill the DJ<\/em> is a very strong second, and almost a #1B when it comes to ranking the episodes of the season.\u00a0 I\u2019d say it was the most thought-provoking episode of the season that I feel like most people watching should probably be able to relate to in some capacity, and I was left feeling pretty good after watching it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fifth episode, Metalhead<\/em> does an excellent job of invoking anxiety and tension, and I admit to cringing in my own seat at the suspense that they\u2019re able to generate within its plot.\u00a0 This is a definite #3 when it comes to where it stands in the season, but probably not on the level of many of the overall series\u2019 previous episodes.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would say episodes two and three, Arkangel<\/em> and Crocodile<\/em> respectively weren\u2019t necessarily bad in their own right, but they weren\u2019t on my personal bar for the series.\u00a0 They still manage to invoke that Black Mirror-nihilism about technology, but I think there are holes in the plots and a lack of believability with some of the characters\u2019 actions that made them feel a little bit weaker.\u00a0 If I had to rank them, they would probably be Arkangel at #4 and Crocodile at #6, although they\u2019re still very much watchable and enjoyable in their own right.<\/span><\/p>\n

The final episode of the season, Black Museum<\/em>, was one that was a little bit of a love letter to the series as a whole, but was certainly no White Christmas<\/em>, as far as executing as an anthology within the anthology it tried to do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t necessarily think the ideas were as original as some of the other ideas utilized in the rest of the series, and it would be while watching this one might it feel like the well is starting to show glimpses of drying out for the time being.\u00a0 It still captures that Black Mirror irony, and there are a lot of references that fans of the show will get enjoyment out of, but as far as being how the show leaves us to wait for more, it was exactly where I would rate it among the six: #5.<\/span><\/p>\n

It might be noticed that I\u2019ve given away no real plot points to anything, in an attempt to remain as vague and spoiler-free as possible.\u00a0 I will say however, the one thing that anyone who decides to watch this show because that I said it\u2019s worth watching is that it might not be a bad idea to watch prior seasons of the show before embarking on season 4.\u00a0 It\u2019s true that every episode is a stand-alone story that doesn\u2019t require watching the show in any particular order, but in an attempt to really excite enthusiastic regulars, the show does make a lot of references from prior episodes, and it could lead to enhanced enjoyment if you have a better understanding of all the stuff that occurred prior to season 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, season 4 of Black Mirror was another win, and I am happy that there was more, and am sad that I\u2019ve watched it all and have to wait until more Black Mirror comes out in the unknown future.\u00a0 It\u2019s still some of the strongest writing out there, and I feel that their propensity to cast actors that aren\u2019t necessarily household names leads to uncovering some really good talent out there that really knock the ball out of the park in their performances, leading to a spectacular package of episodes that is magnificent at being able to incite emotional responses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s only six episodes, and I am already finished with all of them.\u00a0 Lord only knows how much longer it\u2019s going to be until there\u2019s another season, and even still, new episodes are going to have to be written and filmed and edited and this is maybe one of the only flaws with entire seasons … Continue reading The worst part about Black Mirror season 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,69],"class_list":["post-45611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45613,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45611\/revisions\/45613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}