Didn’t we decide the expensive lock-in juicer was exactly that?
(took me a second) Thanks!
Jarvis was a fictional standalone homebrew with a firewall that would probably eat l33t Russki scriptkiddies for snax. Nothing commercially available is anything I would trust right now.
My Amazon Dot never advertises anything at me. Its daily briefings are just NPR summaries. It’s become a great addition to the house.
I’d like know if it was a general advert push or did the people who got it have kids and/or was it based on their prior news interests and searches.
The fun guy with moobs. I hear a soya diet will do that.
Oh how I envy you!
I have only watched one of the US episodes though. Sorry but I think you’ve managed to fuck up another brilliant UK series…
Fixed.
Really?
I though Nosedive, San Junipero and Hated in the Nation were up there with anything from the earlier series.
also @AcerPlatanoides
Ummm. How about storing it in the microwave, when you’re not using it? 
So I only watched Nosedive.
I thought it started off promisingly, with similar production values and an interesting premise.
However I started to find the premise laboured with way too much exposition. I found the ending too upbeat, and I immediately wondered if Brooker was writing these, and was not surprised to find that he isn’t, and this episode was ‘based on his idea’.
Charlie Brooker’s episodes are completely unflinching and scathingly cynical, they don’t pull punches and they don’t offer rays of hope.
I really can’t imagine you can say you think “Nosedive” was up there with “Entire history of you”.
Are the others better? I’ve been meaning to watch them.
Edit: I just checked and Nosedive was the only episode not written by Brooker! I will have to go and watch the rest. So much TV and so little time!
Playtest was the weakest, and Men Against Fire wasn’t much better.
The others I “liked”. I’d rank Nosedive favourably against Fifteen Million Merits, say.
Be Right Back is still my favourite. If you liked that one, I think San Junipero is really worth a watch.
I think the comparison with Fifteen Million Merits is fair, although there is an amazing speech in that episode that really lifts it, especially considering what happens next, thats the sort of soul crushing pessimism I like in Black Mirror 
Be right back is one of my favourites, I really loved the Christmas special as well though. He has a very nice sense of hell.
I’ll check out some of the other episodes this weekend.
Next thing ya know, Obama is ordering all sorts of crap on it…
This is a super fun trope but has no current basis in reality. It’s a little irritating to have people keep bringing it up, like the Kinect spying on you (because webcams are a brand new invention).
Audio intrusions are particularly annoying – we can all just ignore graphical ads, insofar as they don’t get in the way, but it’s hard not to listen to something. Plus, since sound is linear you have to wait it out if you want to hear what’s next. It’s like being on the phone with someone who won’t hang up or get to the point.
