>Directed by Joe Wright, Golden Globe-winner of Atonement, Pride & Prejudice and Hanna, this social satire follows Bryce Dallas Howard as an insecure office worker who “lives in a world in which everyone obsessively ranks and rates every tiny social interaction.” Believing she may finally have discovered a way to rank alongside her friend, an elite member of society played by Alice Eve. Brooke teases that it has “a creepy serenity to it and won’t be what people expect.” Sounds like an interesting premise for a filmmaker like Wright.
Men Against Fire
>A military horror-thriller set in a post-war future directed by Jakob Verbruggen (Netflix’s House of Cards and VTM’s Code 37), this story follows a rookie soldier (Malachi Kirby). Stationed overseas where he is “protecting frightened villagers from an infestation of vicious feral mutants” hoping some new technological advantage might save them. Madeline Brewer plays a fellow soldier named Raiman. Brooke has compared the episode to The Walking Dead and says the story was inspired by how Drones are affecting our war efforts, which maybe makes this the episode I’m least excited about in this batch.
>San Junipero
Directed by Owen Harris, a British director responsible for a few episodes of Misfits and BBC’s GTA series The Gamechangers, this 1980s coming-of-age drama follows Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as recent arrivals to a California beach town “synonymous with sun, surf, and sex.” Not much information to go off of there, but the period setting is interesting for this particular series.
>Directed by Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane), the story follows Kurt Russell’s son Wyatt Russell as a thrill-seeker who visits Britain, hooks up with a woman (Hannah John-Kamen) and tests the latest in video game technology – “a device as mind-bendingly sophisticated as it is terrifying.” Brooke says “this is our Evil Dead 2.” With the rise of VR, this seems like a perfect time than any to tell a story like this one. And with Trachtenberg involved, I’ll be watching this episode on the day it premieres.
Hated in the Nation
>The show’s first-ever 90-minute episode is a crime drama inspired by Scandi-Noir thrillers like The Killing and Borgen, starting out as “a stylish standard police procedural, then takes a bizarre turn.” Kelly MacDonald plays a police detective, who along with her geeky young sidekick, investigate “a string of grisly murders with a sinister link to social media.” Directed by James Hawes, a British filmmaker who has directed episodes of The Bill, Doctor Who, Merlin, Mad Dogs, Penny Dreadful, and Undercover. I’m a big fan of MacDonald, and the premise sounds interesting, although what might the episode title be a reference to?
Shut Up and Dance
>Described as “a kitchen sink nightmarish thriller,” this episode is set in modern day without any sci-fi elements and directed by James Watkins (The Woman In Black, Eden Lake, Bastille Day). The story follows a withdrawn 19-year-old (Alex Lawther) who stumbles into an online trap and is “quickly forced into an uneasy alliance with a shifty man (Jerome Flynn) who are both at the mercy of persons unknown.” Hannah Steele from the recent The Night Manager miniseries also stars. Sounds intriguing.
Camden White
Well lads? Which one are you looking forward to the most?
Brandon Gray
I bet there'll be cuckoldry in Ep 2, 3, 4, and possibly 6.
Also, none of them because Black Mirror is shit and Netflix is shit and combining shit with more shit is just shit.
Jace Perry
Outstanding kino Can't wait for the webms
Liam Jackson
The one with the most cuckolding
Leo Allen
So is this the American version?
Christian Thompson
Which one is that?
I only remember two. The one where a guy spent 1000 years in a few seconds and his wife fucked an asian guy and had his daughter. The other is that episode where people have memory things inside their brains and can see stuff.
Christian Hernandez
No, its still Brookers stuff. Also most of the directors are British.
Gabriel Nguyen
Nosedive is the most waifu worthy
Brandon Brown
>Bryce Dallas Howard as an insecure office worker who “lives in a world in which everyone obsessively ranks and rates every tiny social interaction.”
Fun fact: This system is going live "by 2020" in China.
It's starting roll out in 2017 (at least that's the aim).
Your ability to get a job, get a loan, get specials on online purchases etc will be measured by your social media metrics - How many friends you have, how many hours a day you spend at work or on family as opposed to watching movies or being on the internet. Literally your friends, co-workers etc will give you a Social Score rating to determine your worth to society and what you can receive.
Lots of articles are saying it will "never" take off in the west...
Let's hope.
Nicholas Wilson
Nosedive, Men Against Fire, Playtest and even then it seems black mirror writers chase more and more after the lightning in a bottle moment of the first episode of the first season
Julian Reed
Still not used to seeing her without a dick in her eye
Chase Morales
>How many friends you have
Oh fuck
Jackson Cook
>Lots of articles are saying it will "never" take off in the west...
It will if the historic population of the west gets replaced
Dylan Thomas
>implying the society of western idiots won't eat this shit up.
Historic population has jack shit to do with this, basement dweller.
Elijah Russell
Sesame credit is some scary shit. But I think that this episode won't be about it. Which is a shame because there needs to be a film made about it.
Luke Rogers
What did the great historic population do when the Snowden leaks came out? There's your fucking people for you, you shithead
Michael Fisher
It seems really similar to sesame credit. Just a more in depth version.
Anyway, what are you worried about?
>"Someone who plays video games for 10 hours a day, for example, would be considered an idle person, and someone who frequently buys diapers would be considered as probably a parent, who on balance is more likely to have a sense of responsibility," Li Yingyun, Sesame's technology director told Caixin, a Chinese magazine, in February.
>A lengthy planning document from China's elite State Council explains that social credit will "forge a public opinion environment that trust-keeping is glorious", warning that the "new system will reward those who report acts of breach of trust".
I'm sure regular Cred Forums users will fall into the good spectrum of social credit.
Cameron Gonzalez
>Lots of articles are saying it will "never" take off in the west... Kek, of c-course not, duh.
Liam Mitchell
>trainwreck
Owen Rodriguez
>Every time you meet a new person or interact with another human being, they will rate your social skills just like a restaurant meal on Yelp, and your boss and potential QT's and family will be able to check up on your performance
Hahahahaha, I am NOT nervous and I am perfectly calm and fine with this new development in human socialization.
Jeremiah Baker
The first clips and texts I saw of it was about it's first drafts being about it being a game of who's the best citizen. The app will be accessing their version of facebook and their version of amazon (alibaba) and rank you/ reward you depending on what articles you post and what products you buy. It will also enable you to view the scores of your fb friends and -depending on how good a patriot they are- reward you or punish you with lower credits. So basically if you're friends with a person sharing the 'wrong' links and liking the wrong stuff, your score will remain low.
I found this to be pretty scary.
Asher Foster
shut up idiot
Matthew Adams
Yeah, the friends thing freaked me out.
You will no longer be "the weird guy" because no one will interact with you because being your friend will lower their scores.
The lower you score, the less anyone will want to get to know you.
