The word of the year in 2024 of the Macquarie dictionary was “at the start”, the progressive deterioration of a service or an online product when the profits have priority over the customer experience. Charlie Brooker Black mirror (Netflix) takes this concept and gallops with him in Common peoplesThe formidable opening episode of the 7 series, to show where, logically, all this leads us. It is terrifying because it does not even seem incredible.
In a multifaceted series which presents its first suite (USS Callister: Into Infinity) There will be a surprise for the Fandom (I can’t say more, but it’s a treat). Certain episodes, as you can imagine with a Pot-Pourri, are less convincing than others, but the series hits the high notes of human loss and love in the middle of our Relationship with technology and the search for the meaning of life with Brooker shine flashes.
In episode one, Chris O’Dowd and Rashida Jones play like an ordinary couple in America whose world is upset when it develops a cerebral tumor which would be normally fatal, but wait! There is a new technology of revolutionary neuroscience technology, Rivermind, which can make a backup of part of his brain, which then extends from a server. Surgery is free and the monthly subscription is $ 300. What could go wrong!
The intelligence of the plot is to reflect what is actually going on with “planned obsolescence” of technology (or at least its intentional relegation, pushing people to buy the last model). Mike and Amanda do more pressure from the gaynor smiling socio -speaker (an excellent trace Ellis Ross) to “pass” in more expensive packages when the “common” bug, we mean that Amanda cannot move from the range of servers and start automatic advertisements for coffee and lube because it is not upgraded to “luxury”.
Meanwhile, explores him more and more desperate measures to collect funds. I have always found Black mirror To be more affecting the closest to real life and it always plays in my mind – a good thing.
A subject of discussion is the return of Will Poulter, which appeared in the interactive 2018 episode Bolersnatchand appears again in Toy As the same character Colin Ritman, a genius game programmer, of which he turned out to be a mental break in the 1990s.
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At the time, he attracted Cameron, another talented geek played by Lewis Gribben as a young man and Peter Capaldi as an old man in 2025, to see his new invention, which is not a “game” but a world inhabited by the first forms of life whose biology is entirely digital and that the user must feed as an improving human experience.
Cameron manages to communicate with them and devote his life to them in a cave room as they widen his mind, a fatty and ruffled appearance of Capaldi approaching the gateway levels. It is a complex episode but carefully dark, helped by a strange and wonderful performance by Capaldi.
I was a little less passionate Bbeblack te Despite a big tour of Siena Kelly as a developer of a chocolate company whose life is capsized when a cheesy girl she knew at school joins the company with an extremely high gas lighting. The end was too ott for my taste.
Hotel Cell is a great notion, the dreamy idea of renamed old vintage films with characters from AI who do not know that they are characters from a film. Issa Rae and Emma Corrin Shine. But he felt too long a shade at 1 hour 15 minutes.
Praise, Featuring an extremely impressive Paul Giamatti as a man capable of resuming his old photographs to be challenged in his memories, is the most poignant. But some might not say that San Junipero Earlier in the cannon.
Which will undoubtedly take place as the treat of the series is the continuation of the length USS CallisterWho continues the story of a bitter friend programmer (played in the first by Jesse Plemons) who clones his colleagues and traps them in a violent computer game (who rifles Star Trek) As sensitive beings who bleed and risk being killed by unconscious players.
Most of the original actors are back, including Cristin Milioti and Jimmi Simpson. He has a huge surprise in his round and is the funniest in the series, largely to an energetic performance of Simpson as a beautifully terrible boss James Walton, who, at one point, appears as a cave man showing part of his scrotum under a loincloth (it was false, I imagine / Hope). It will probably be the one who excites the fandom the most, in particular because of its end.
Brooker is in good shape. Since there have now been 34 episodes, you wonder when / if his vast imagination will run out.
★★★★ ☆
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