RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

donster-1 Not sure why this episode received such negative ratings. It's my favorite episode of the Black Mirror series. I't been a while since I've seen it, so i need to go back and watch it again to provide a more detailed review.

lol234 Brooker is a media satirist, so I want to give him the benefit of the doubt about this episode. My 6 rating is because even as dry satire, it's underwhelming.The premise is: mechanical dogs have decimated life in Scotland and presumably the world. The episode is essentially a prolonged chase. Instead of zombies in 28 Days Later, we've got robot dogs.There aren't many beats. Maxine Peake runs, trembles, inhales, sobs, etc. Ms Peake isn't given a lot to work with, yet does an admirable job. If she appears to over-act: what else is she supposed to do?So why is it possible parody? The first clue is it's in black & white. It looks a lot like Besson's wonderful The Last Battle. I'm tempted to believe that Brooker is giving a nudge to Besson to ask how he went from crafting quiet, beautiful films to his current excessive style. My second clue is the final shot. With the overwrought music, saccharine morality and the God-like perspective ... well, I hope Brooker understands what that means to the viewer.As a sincere story, it's silly. As a parody, it's not skewering much. This one's a swing and a miss. But I'm optimistic that Brooker has many more interesting stories to tell.

Harrison Tweed (Top Dawg) Wow what an incredible episode! I can see how most fans wouldn't like episode, especially compared to the others, but what Black Mirror is known for is its unique individual stories based on technology affecting society. This was no different, but more evident.In short (and short and sweet and to the point this episode was), the entire struggle was to obtain something innocent and special for obviously a child, and it shows that human nature will ignore even danger to achieve a goal that will make that child smile... all based on a promise. Its portrays human emotion, kindness, resolve, and much more. Then it shows that technology simply does not care and does what its goal is, no matter what, and in this case its to destroy humanity.You don't need a back story or character development nor plot twists and turns to get the point across as well as this episode did. Barvo! A well deserved 9/10

demilung So first thing first - what is there to think about. Black Mirror used to be build on the conrovercial nature of technology, and whether or not it is going too far in places. What does this episode present? Killer Robots are bad. What if the robots created for a useful purpose went out of control and took their directive to the extreme and started to... you know this story was done so many times and so much better.That's the thing, when spoofing something, try to be better than the thing you're spoofing. Why are your robots - cold, metal machines, that are supposed to be terryingly logical and soulless - behave like animals or monsters? Why kicking this thing is suddenly an effective strategy, when it has a gun? Why is it so dumb in a human, not machine way? Because it's a monster for a horror movie, not a robot. We're not given any context which means this thing is more open to enterpretation - but also means that tehre is no real grander story. A woman who's bad at post-apocalypsis is running from a stupid killer robot. That's it. Nothing more. Filler.