The title I give can seem provocative, but this series really annoyed me. I will admit that I didn't watch all of it - dear god, after a few episodes, the idea of watching the whole thing seemed like torture.
Yes this series is filmed with a decent quality and will look quite nice. it's "edible" to the eye. no critique on that part.
The actors weren't the greatest, but then, none that I saw was horribly bad either. No critique to the directors either.
Major critique to the script writers. the people writing this series went to a "creative writing" program, came out with a fancy degree, but have never creatively written in their lives. take an online creative writing course, and after a few classes you will understand exactly what I mean. It's always the same guidelines - create a character with flaws, but with a strong will to achieve a desire. make their desire clear, and obvious. Then, find obstacles. since this series is supposed to be "disturbing", of course the obstacles has the better of them.
There would be too many examples for me to give here, but again with the script writing, there are major plot holes everywhere. Some of them are so undeniably obvious that even some of my friends who enjoy this show, admitted, despite all their will to defend it, that what I pointed out was indeed huge inexplicable plot holes.
Finally I see neither what is really disturbing nor what is really interesting. That the show tries to have situations that are realistic yet futuristic compared to society as we know it, I get, but there are so many things where I just don't really grasp the major difference in comparison to our current social or political situations, that it just ends up being contemporary society with a bunch of gadgets, which end up in the same results. I mean that those gadgets don't really make an impact that changes much, compared to our current society. It's not social science fiction as it tries to be - it's social drama that they tried to make into science fiction. This show isn't more disturbing than the world as it stands now. Is it awakening people? I don't really think so, as most people will just see it as "bleak"-ish science fiction.
I recommend reading the review on here that also says that it's essentially a high budget rip-off of the twilight zone.
Bad script writing renders black mirror an uninteresting bore, and no amount of fancy visuals can make up for all the clichés, lack of imagination, and mechanical, industrial story lines.
Yes this series is filmed with a decent quality and will look quite nice. it's "edible" to the eye. no critique on that part.
The actors weren't the greatest, but then, none that I saw was horribly bad either. No critique to the directors either.
Major critique to the script writers. the people writing this series went to a "creative writing" program, came out with a fancy degree, but have never creatively written in their lives. take an online creative writing course, and after a few classes you will understand exactly what I mean. It's always the same guidelines - create a character with flaws, but with a strong will to achieve a desire. make their desire clear, and obvious. Then, find obstacles. since this series is supposed to be "disturbing", of course the obstacles has the better of them.
There would be too many examples for me to give here, but again with the script writing, there are major plot holes everywhere. Some of them are so undeniably obvious that even some of my friends who enjoy this show, admitted, despite all their will to defend it, that what I pointed out was indeed huge inexplicable plot holes.
Finally I see neither what is really disturbing nor what is really interesting. That the show tries to have situations that are realistic yet futuristic compared to society as we know it, I get, but there are so many things where I just don't really grasp the major difference in comparison to our current social or political situations, that it just ends up being contemporary society with a bunch of gadgets, which end up in the same results. I mean that those gadgets don't really make an impact that changes much, compared to our current society. It's not social science fiction as it tries to be - it's social drama that they tried to make into science fiction. This show isn't more disturbing than the world as it stands now. Is it awakening people? I don't really think so, as most people will just see it as "bleak"-ish science fiction.
I recommend reading the review on here that also says that it's essentially a high budget rip-off of the twilight zone.
Bad script writing renders black mirror an uninteresting bore, and no amount of fancy visuals can make up for all the clichés, lack of imagination, and mechanical, industrial story lines.