Right from the onset, I knew this would be your typical Black Mirror stuff, in the end leaving me ruminating about this weird reality that we have found ourselves in. I wasn't disappointed by the content, though I did feel that the editing and the dialogues needed some polishing.
Acting in Black Mirror has never disappointed me. It feels like all the characters know what is expected of them and do not want their acting to be the only thing not up to the mark. But this is the first episode where I felt like the writing and the script could have been better. Don't get me wrong, the concept is great. I just felt some finishing touches were missing. I felt like at times the dialogues didn't feel natural, many a times being expositional and only seeming to move the plot forward. Like most of Blue's dialogues, all she did was to explain things like IMEI no. or explaining conspiracy theories about ADIs or mentioning hateful messages on the social media when the murders weren't linked to them or tracking someone based on their feeds or the photos they've clicked or trying to reverse engineer the hacking of ADI infront of the guy who created them. Some of scenes just felt weird and unnatural - like there being only 2 people aiding the police from the massive company who created the millions of ADIs - there was no mention of any other employees even when they had to help trace the bees or even when they lost control of all their hives. Seriously something of that scale should have caused a nation-wide panic, rather this critical information seemed to be restricted to our four key characters. It also felt like each and every happening was being explained verbally to us using these unnatural dialogues. The pacing seemed off due to it and the script felt loose.
Maybe I am being an over-privileged nagger who has access to several mindb-lowing episodes of similar nature to compare with, but this is how I feel. Maybe we could have cut out a good 15 min to bring us our great 1 hour edge of the seat thriller. Contrary to some negative reviews, I rather liked the ending. In this day and age, you can never leave your indentity in the open and hope to be behind the radar, no matter how smart you are. And it wasn't your usual happy ending or karma gets you at the end - half a million people still died, folks. That's terrifying.
Acting in Black Mirror has never disappointed me. It feels like all the characters know what is expected of them and do not want their acting to be the only thing not up to the mark. But this is the first episode where I felt like the writing and the script could have been better. Don't get me wrong, the concept is great. I just felt some finishing touches were missing. I felt like at times the dialogues didn't feel natural, many a times being expositional and only seeming to move the plot forward. Like most of Blue's dialogues, all she did was to explain things like IMEI no. or explaining conspiracy theories about ADIs or mentioning hateful messages on the social media when the murders weren't linked to them or tracking someone based on their feeds or the photos they've clicked or trying to reverse engineer the hacking of ADI infront of the guy who created them. Some of scenes just felt weird and unnatural - like there being only 2 people aiding the police from the massive company who created the millions of ADIs - there was no mention of any other employees even when they had to help trace the bees or even when they lost control of all their hives. Seriously something of that scale should have caused a nation-wide panic, rather this critical information seemed to be restricted to our four key characters. It also felt like each and every happening was being explained verbally to us using these unnatural dialogues. The pacing seemed off due to it and the script felt loose.
Maybe I am being an over-privileged nagger who has access to several mindb-lowing episodes of similar nature to compare with, but this is how I feel. Maybe we could have cut out a good 15 min to bring us our great 1 hour edge of the seat thriller. Contrary to some negative reviews, I rather liked the ending. In this day and age, you can never leave your indentity in the open and hope to be behind the radar, no matter how smart you are. And it wasn't your usual happy ending or karma gets you at the end - half a million people still died, folks. That's terrifying.