Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too

I was bracing myself for a very somber lesson in how young girls perceive celebrity and their own bodies, when the story totally goofed out and became a warped love letter to the kids movies of the 80s. You may think you hate this, but I know you, and you're a good person.

A classic case of "didn't hate, wasn't great".

The conceit with Ashley Too was fun, but the poppy stuff is just as annoying as it's intended to be. There's also some weirdly broad humor in this episode that just felt totally out of place. Definitely a weaker episode, but it's still got enough in it to be enjoyable.

Cleverly enlists Miley Cyrus into a war against the industrial production of music, the irony being that the vehicle chosen by the filmmakers for the prosecution of this war is the music of Trent Reznor, who made his fortune by taking the “dark themes” attractive to those allergic to pop and wrapping them around what is essentially easily-digestible pop music, a strategy later copied with great success by Brian Warner, and in a more diluted fashion by Alecia Moore and Stefani Germanotta.

I understand what they were trying to do with Miley Cyrus but they missed the mark badly and on several fronts. Miley Cyrus was distractingly bad in this and the themes are, at times, mind-numblingly stupid. Hopefully this is a low point for Black Mirror because a couple more episodes like this and I will give up.

Disney Channel presents Black Mirror.

Got nothing against feelgood family therapy adventures defeating the baddies, (I certainly don't want to be put in a suicidal mood by every one of these, like a certain few from seasons 2 and 3) but this entire "season" was just a bunch of forgettable, mediocre-at-best episodes where technology is barely an excuse to have them at all. No wonder people felt like this series is done. I can imagine shows like The Outer Limits already explored a lot of the genre so coming up with new stories take... - Full Review

This was very obviously bad. It's fine if Brooker wanted to make it intentionally cheesy and shit but in my eyes that still makes the episode... Cheesy and shit whether or not it was intended.

Seen: 2.

This surprised me by how fun it actually was.