Black Mirror
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How long isBlack Mirrorbuilt to last?
But Im not sure this premiere is one of them.
Theres a lot of promise early on.
Heres where the episode starts to lose the plot a little for me.
So Mike resorts to livestreaming on Dum Dummies, a site he heard about from his slacker co-worker Shane.
And yet its still not enough!
But its presentation here also feels … a little bit like aSaturday Night Livesketch?
The site just becomes a generically unpleasant way of showing Mike debasing himself to meet the escalating prices.
Could Amandas consciousness be stored indefinitely, eventually streamed to some other brain?
The episode doesnt take this premise in the most interesting direction.
Its enough to get Mike fired, and hes probably lucky he doesnt face worse consequences than that.
After all, pregnancy takes a lot of processing.
From here, Common People picks up another year later, on their fifth anniversary.
Tracee Ellis Ross is another highlight of this episode, of course.
Her polite deliveries of bad news are infuriating in a good way.
