What to expect from the episodes – and what works: NPR

Rashida Jones in “Common People”, a new episode of Black mirror.

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The very first episode of Black mirrorThe 2011 did not debut complex technology. Called as a “national anthem”, it is a 24-hour messages of messages and the public opinion fluctuations enabled by social media.

Almost 15 years later the new seventh season of Black mirror With its imaginary technology, the idea of ​​a storable, transferable human consciousness has been great. In several of the episodes, what is at stake is the possibility of transferring or copying yourself to an alternative reality or an alternative dimension, or simply to the cloud for the memory.

These episodes are as good as classic Black mirror? Well, they are different. classic Black mirror Contains some surprisingly bleak things that are based on the idea that people take every technological progress and use it for evil – to torture each other, to control each other and to take advantage of each other. Most of these stories, on the other hand, are ambivalent, which indicates that there are threats in a world in which their humanity can be moved like any other file, but also opportunities.

It would feel quite difficult at the moment to have something like a “white bear” or “fifteen million earnings”, something really and really terrible, fell on our head. With only several episodes that are really about love, this may be the right season for the right time.

Here you will find a brief overview of what you can expect from the consequences – and what works.

“People together”: With Chris O’Dowd and Rashida Jones, this follows a loving couple of modest means until the woman falls into a coma because of an inconceivable brain tumor. A sales employee from Chipper played by Tracee Ellis Ross convinces the husband to report with a subscription service that will upload his wife’s brain to the cloud so that she can survive the operation. In the way in which subscription services catch people and then worsen over time, the episode gets very good work from the leads and has some good and dark jokes when things become grimmer, but after a while it feels a bit a grades, smart, but not entirely satisfactory.

“Bête noire”: A woman realizes that a new colleague of her also knew a long time ago that she sabotaged her. It is convincing to explain what happens, but the solution to the secret leaves it down a little. There are episodes of Black mirror This is against the idea that a person or a Gizmo is almighty and that the absurd is worrying.

Emma Corrin in “Hotel Reverie”, a new episode of Black mirror.

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“Hotelreverie”: Issa Rae plays an actress who takes over the leading role by the use of AI decades ago by a man-in a “remake” of a black and white remance of black and white remance. To make it, her awareness enters the world of film to the original actress, played by Emma Corrin. One of Black mirror‘S Best Episodes is “San Junipero”, another romance between women who meet in an unreal space, and in this beautiful story in which Corrin is a power very The convincing actress from the 1940s go well with it.

“Toy”: In this strange little story, Peter Capaldi plays an unkempt old electronics nerd. He tells the story of a video game that he has played for years, which is populated with small yellow beings who try to take over humanity. Here the porous boundary threatens between virtual and real worlds such as the little boys, which are called “pregnancy” (sounds bad, is right, right?), Threats to leave their domain and enter our.

Paul Giamatti in “Eulogie”, a new episode of Black mirror.

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“Eulogy”: This is probably the emotionally richest episode of the season. Paul Giamatti plays a man who researches memories of an old friend with a “guide” who collects information for her monument. There is no turn, only a man who has a difference between the history he remembers, and the story that really happened – how we all do every now and then. Giamatti is excellent and of all warmer and blurred Black mirror Episodes, that is one of the best.

“USS Callister: In Infinity”: Back in the fourth season, Black mirror Premied “Uss Callister”, in which a game designer, played by Jesse Plemons, arrested digital clones of his colleagues in a world that is based on his preferred old spaceship TV show in which he was the dictatorial captain. When he cloned his nanette, played by Cristin Milioti, she rebelled. In this sequel, the cloned nanette and the rest of the ship crew still try to survive. The original was a great examination of a man, whose cruelty did not prevent him from seeing himself as a good guy and victim; This feels more comic and not quite as cutting. Nevertheless, the returning line -up, which also includes Billy Magnussen and Jimmi Simpson, is a pleasure.

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