Has anyone watch the latest season of Black Mirror?
The Miley Cyrus / Ashley O one was good. My SO was skeptical, that it would be a teeny bopper story, but even he liked it.
Nine Inch Nailsā Head Like a Hole plays a big part in the story, at least thatās how I took it. Early on, she sings āIām going to get what I deserveā in a pop-y riff with bizarro world lyrics, that bugged the everlovingshit out of me, because I have long loved NIN. When I worked a particularly crappy job, I would sing that song to myself, because I needed to channel that emotion out of me. In the resolution, where she sings the actual lyrics, in a properly angry fashion, I was so relieved. My dude doesnāt like the same kind of music I do, his taste is crap (sorry not sorry), so I wondered if it had the same sort of impact. I think GenX folks and other people with similar taste in music probably got a little more out of the foreshadowing.
I finally finished the final season, which was better than I expected but still not very good
Fringe is basically J. J. Abramsās version of The X-Files. Given that Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman also worked on it, itās like the second attempt by Star Trek people to do an X-Files pastiche, after Threshold.
My verdict on the show as a whole is still WATCH THE FIRST TWO SEASONS THEN STOP
On the minus side, the villain is such an obvious POS that itās hard not to blame the heroes for restraining themselves and not just murdering him at their first opportunity. All the additional plot shenanigans after than point seem like theyāre at least partially on Team Good Guys.
Is it my imagination, or do the characters all seem strangely subdued this season? The Jessica Jones character, in particular, looks like sheās phoning it in. If I had only tuned in at the start of this latest season, I wouldnāt bother continuing. Itās not as compelling as it used to be.
Iām liking Jeri Hogarthās storyline, treating love like a settlement negotiation.
Side note: I totally did not recognize Rebecca de Mornay all this time. Nor did I recognize Virginia Madsen in Swamp Thing right away, despite everyone else being totally recognizable after 20-30 years.
I often perceive third seasons of TV series as strangely redundant and think the creators might have done better to let it go at two.
I donāt know how much of that is writers and directors running out of ideas, how much is some limitation of the form, how much is just me getting bored.
