I always have an alternate ending playing in my head that sucks the darkness out of it lol. At the end, after he abandons his principles for money, he gets a call from his pornstar girlfriend and they meet up at a fancy party, they see each other and cheer, dancing and drinking champagne- they're living the high lives, he's rich, fuck it. Kind of like a take on this ancient Derrick comedy sketch with Donald Glover
I stopped watching black mirror cuz of that episode. Where the girl is forced into porn and the guy doesn’t have any credits to skip the ads. Kinda fucked me up for a while.
Brings up a lot of good ethical questions about tech that is only theoretical. Rick and Morty meanwhile brings up the concept to then casually sidestep all ethical issues by sledge hammering it, like the miniverse box.
Not to disregard your taste, but I really don't see the appeal of Nosedive. The episode seems to me really not subtle in the technology might be dangerous and the end is just a pure cliche.
White bear was fun tho.
Nosedive was already done by Community with Meow Meow Beanz and it was way better. Then The Orville did yet another one that was a little more Twitter/cancel culture (with death!), S01E07 which might be the weakest of the three. None of them are remotely subtle, but Community is a brilliant comedy so they win in my book.
Nosedive would've been a lot better if it had the more obvious political ramifications, as China's social credit score does. Instead it was all about posting attractive food photos on Instagram and smiling to everyone. Which again, Community did better.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's where a lot of people stopped.
First episode is a lot of "this is fuckin weird, but interesting I guess?" Second episode hits a lot closer to home in regards to our society and has bigger emotional impact. That and Daniel Kaluuya is a fantastic actor.
I remember seeing that episode around the time my high school sweetheart of 5 years and I had broken up. She was posting stuff on social media with her new bf within two days, “To hurt me as bad as possible.” Seeing her IG posts with some dude from tinder was equally as difficult as if it would’ve just been porn lol
I didn't know what I was getting into with the first episode and it didn't really resonated with me, it was too weird. The second episode was where I got it. Loved the show from that point on.
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u/Thebeardinato462 28d ago
Always makes me think of the black mirror episode about these kind of shows.