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Black Mirror Season-Premiere Recap: Life Stream
We’re off to a disappointing start with an episode that resembles an SNL sketch and a discarded Black Mirror idea.
People like Amanda on Rivermind Common, meanwhile, suddenly can’t go anywhere without unconsciously spouting “contextually relevant” commercials: a snack called Honey Nugs during a school lesson about pollination, lube, and erectile dysfunction gel during sex. Besides, I would have rather the episode spent more time exploring the implications of this type of cloud-based tech; “ San Junipero ” and “ Black Museum ” introduced the concepts of digitizing and transplanting a human consciousness, respectively, and there’s plenty of untapped potential to the idea. So we get that disturbing, somber final scene of Mike tucking his wife into bed before smothering her with a pillow during an unconscious “antidepressant lozenges” ad, a logical destination on this episode’s long march to a grim inevitability.
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