Black Mirror's low ratings for this season may be because audience expectations are significantly higher than the experience. The techniques used in this season are basically those that have appeared before, which is not only suspicious of fried rice, but also further deepens the audience's aesthetic fatigue. But I think the reason why the rating is diving this time may be because the plot is not "exciting" enough. This stimulus is not that stimulus. Black Mirror has long given people the impression that it predicts the crisis that technology will bring to human beings, big or small; big to destroy the world, medium to ethics and law, small to love between men and women. The crisis in the first episode obviously belongs to the "small cup" in Teacher Luo's mouth. To tell the truth, Black Mirror has never done such a small but terrifying work before, and the core of this episode cannot be said to stand up well enough-two straight men temporarily change sex and fall in love through game software, and this The love is limited to the game world. There's actually a lot of Black Mirror depth to this core—while discussing the intricate relationship between love, gender, and ethics in the VR age. It is a pity that the screenwriter has the talent of Black Mirror, but the director does not have the ruthlessness of Black Mirror. Looking back at the most popular episodes of Black Mirror in the past, almost all of them have the process of "breaking and standing". At least, it will make the audience feel the huge challenge or crisis brought by technology to mankind.
And this episode clearly didn't have enough crisis. The crisis is limited to the lack of sex between the male protagonist and the husband and the fight between the male and the male in the rain. This is not a trivial matter for the characters in the play, but it is difficult for the audience to have a "sense of crisis".
The second episode is very much like the first episode of the first season - a kidnapper touches the hearts of the whole world. But the ending is the highlight of the whole episode: we don't need to tell you who's dead and who's alive, because no matter what the ending is, the audience will only take one look, and then it's all over. This is very ironic, not only satirizing the people in the play, but also satirizing you and me in front of the screen.
Episode 3:
Make music with heart, use it as drama
But I still don't have the kind of fear that Black Mirror brought me many years ago. I think this may be the reason for everyone's low score: the ghosts in ghost stories are still there, but the stories are not scary anymore.
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