Shut Up and Dance is my absolute favorite too. The last minute with the phone call really made me go DAMN. The first scene with the kid is so innocent on the first watch but so sinister the next

i also think the reason it is so beloved to this day is because it remains as one of, if not the only, episode with a “happy” ending. and rightfully so. in a world where simply existing as a queer person is terrifying and sometimes even impossible, seeing such a hopeful episode on BLACK MIRROR of all shows really struck a chord in me, and i’m sure it did in so many other people.

@@scheibez Then too I loved Yorkie and Kelly both as teenagers and adults

@@scheibez The fact that people would say that a happy ending is good in a black mirror episode is why we get those nickolodeon episodes with miley cyrus. The San Junipero ep was one of the worst episodes in BM history after miley cyrus and the first Joane is awful. The whole fkn point of black mirror is to give us dark endings that stick with us and make us think about the dystopian and negative consequences of technology, the changes to our society, morals, behavior etc etc. Wanting a good episode just because it has lgbt character is so backwards. It's just as backwards as everyone that obsessively praises this episode because it's lgbt despite it being super bad and poorly written. The reason why it was so "well received" (only in certain circles). is because lgbt as a social issue is the thing that hollywood has decided to champion for the past decade. Before that it was racism. It's fine to champion social issues, but not when you start writing and producing garbage to virtue signal and prize bait like for example with the movie Crash.

@@3choblast3r4 i didnt think it was garbage i quite liked their story

@@3choblast3r4get a life bro

Watch breaking bad

Me too. I thought it was one of the best episode honestly and I don’t get why there’s so much hate towards it.

Yeah it's a participation that people PAY for. The thing is I can see the thought process for how it would be set up. Don't think it ever would be, but the public outrage at crimes as awful as that make it kinda believable (eg: Lucy Letby). "Help us punish a child killer, you're totally in the right to do so." It's an appealing concept on an emotional level.

it’s also allowed bc the spectator viewing an awful event and recording and laughing and all that is exactly what she did to the little girl. so i think it was a way to flip her crime back on her and basically be like - “well how does it feel to be hurting and have people watching and laughing and recording your pain? not great huh?” (i could be misremembering details lol)

@@beefkaqueenoftheworldthat’s exactly it - I seem to remember them being encouraged to film in the ‘behind the scenes at the park’ scenes, to give her a taste of her own medicine idea.

Yes, please! For me the absolute gut-punch that was the Jibaro episode makes the whole series experience worthwhile. Alizee's opinions on this would be so fun!

Love Death and Robots is SOOO good

YES ❤

I would watch LDR over black mirror any day honestly

Love that show

yeah it’s like we’re assigning letter grades

I'm American and got all A's my entire life. By the same token, I would never give something I did not like a 7/10. If I genuinely didn't like it then it would be much lower. On a 10 scale a 5 is average and I think most people realize that

I agree so much. That’s the one episode out of the entire run of Black Mirror that makes me feel unbelievably sick to my stomach. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to watch it all the way through and every time I rewatch the show I skip it. Just thinking about it now makes me feel viscerally ill lol. I guess we’re both weak 😂

I agree. I think a lot of people's takeaway from that episode is "people are more interested in watching a spectacle than they are in the Princess's wellbeing, isn't that awful" but I think the real horror is the whole "imagine being forced to knowingly humiliate yourself on a national scale". I think the show was right to have the PM be the main character so we could see his turmoil over it.

Your not weak it's just fucking disgusting

I'm angry it even exist shame to and on the writers who came up with such a sick and disgusting idea and shame on any and all the actors for choosing to be apart if something so disgusting I truly hate them all it's a disgusting thing that shouldn't exist or anything the whole thing doesn't have a word to describe how immoral and disgusting it is and even if I granted it a generous amount of grace which is doesn't deserve the episode failed to go about it sensitivity and even it did still fuck all the actors and writers who worked on that absolute abomination

The second episode traumatized me way too much (i think it was he second one, where she ends up in pron)

exactly! i just re watched “12 days of christine” recently and it is a much better way of telling “play test” i forgot the twist and it made me cry

I said this! 12 days of Christine was incredible and that Christmas episode was wild.

Its truely a hit or miss each episode

White Beat is one of my absolute favourites - it was the first Black Mirror episode and blew my mind. I also love Nosedive.

I think it makes sense that not all episodes are groundbreaking or outstanding(or even very original}, and the tone isn't consistent, because its an anthology with each episode written by a super wide variety of people. even with some episodes that are clearly a reinterpretation of earlier works, some of the are at least told in an interesting way. and I think shows like this might invite more people into reading/consuming more scifi, hopefully.

there's literally nothing original in any of the Black Mirror episodes. They're all very, very well-trodden sci-fi/dystopian tropes.

Inside No.9 is incredible! Iv found it more intelligent as well and just more interesting and engaging.

@@CharlieQuinn2772 But I still am a BM fan and consider it one of the better shows of its time. It's not lacking in ambition.

Inside No. 9 is absolutely brilliant. It really sticks with you. I don't remember how many years ago I first watched it - it was before Reece Shearsmith was in Chasing Shadows, at least - but I still find myself just contemplating some of those episodes. Sardines and Tom & Gerri especially. I definitely need to get back to it and watch what I've missed. I think I've missed at least the last two seasons.

Lol I've just noticed you made that exact same point just seconds after the bit I've paused 💀 Well now I know it's not only a thing in German law ~

The deeper meaning is “don’t even bother trying to sue Netflix”. It’s dumb

outer limits is pretty good too usualy

It’s become my favourite episode ever I loved it

I liked it a lot better than I thought I would

Same. I'm an absolute sucker for demonic love stories.

Agreed. Also, I ain’t seen it, but from Alizee’s synopsis, I can’t sympathise with someone dumb enough to play with themselves in front of a laptop that doesn’t have a webcam covered

San Junipero was the dumbest most prize bait bs episode of that season together with the 2 gaymers episode. Actually rewatch that episode and leave your bias aside. Watch it for the story and tell me it's actually good .."one I consider a much needed WLW story" .. ok bruh .. ffs.

@@3choblast3r4 you called the only 2 episodes that contained lgbt themes featured on the video "the dumbest most prize bait" and you think that YOU don't have any kind of bias .. ok bruh .. ffs.

​@@killthepandas. Yeah no sh. Are you even aware what prize bait is buddy? A decade or two ago it was stuff like Crash. Where they obsessively focused on racism but didn't actually bother to write good stories. The new trend / social issue that is all the rage is LGBT people. And the inclusion of them is often not done because the writer happened to have written LGBT characters but because Marketing people demand it, because reviewers and prize committees prioritize it for prizes and high scores, because it causes a lot of "engagement" with angsty lgbt teens posting left and right that it's the best thing ever and homohobes are going off about how it's the worst. Meanwhile no one cares that the episode is actually very poorly written, directed and full of plot holes. A good example is tlou's bill episode. Every single review said the same stuff.. tloug was a very poor remake of a video game story, all the parts with Joel and Ellie were horribly bad. The episode where the paranoid doomsday prepper and a random guy start having sex after 30 seconds was the best TV in the last decade, this show is a 10/10 .. (hilariously IGN or Kotaku don't remember still claimed that despite the Bill bait episode and the Ellie and Riley episode the show still wasn't inclusive because lgbt and bipoc people died in the show

@@killthepandas. P.s Sandman by Neil Gaiman was super, super, super inclusive of LGBT people literally changing 90% of the characters to one acronym letter or another. The only straight people in the show I can remember aside from the sandman himself (which I wouldn't be surprised is written as bi) were evil. yet very few people cared.. you know why? Because despite all that nonsense, it was very well written. Likely because Neil Gaiman was actually involved in the project. And despite the character changes his good writing came to the forefront. My point is you can have lgbt inclusive stories, even those that push it down your throat and still have it be very well written and just generally well done. San Junipero was not. Neither was the Bill episode

@@3choblast3r4 idk about you but I considered the relationship between the main characters the story, with the tech elements in the background. And the relationship was handled exquisitely . As of your 'ok bruh ffs' comment -- that was unneeded, but my previous statement stands. Look at LGBT media with two women being the main pairing, or even gay-adjacent. Think about all the 'girl-on-girl but it's straight' kisses in medeia. It's almost always hyper-sexualised to appeal to a male audience. For example, Riverdale. This is not the case in San Junipero, which is why I said it was much needed -- young, queer girls need to have role models in media, and I think that this episode has done it well. As for you citing Gaiman, it's giving "I'm not homophobic, I have a gay friend!" And finally. People have opinions that are different to yours, Karen, learn to live with it lmao Edit: Gaiman

Also i loved “shut up and dance” too oh my god. Plus “exit music (for a film)” being played is the cherry on top. I also love the scene in the car where the bloke who cheated on his wife starts off kind like “oh we’ve all done it before” to our main character and then switches it up real quick. Its done very well.

i feel like the only person who understands why people liked demon 79 but i could not sit through it. it was extremely pretentious and for what😂the direction was all over the place

@escapedscienceexperiement9824 Oh my gosh, thank you! Exactly, it felt so pretentious, fake deep, and self-important to me 😂 I actually had to re-watch the episode a second time as I fell asleep during the first viewing simply because it was so boring to me. I also completely agree that it seemed like the directors couldn't really settle on what exactly they wanted it to be, leaving the tone and pacing feeling all over the place to me in the end. I figured people liked it so much because they felt that the whole 'sacrificing people to save the world' was a fresh twist on the regular 'stopping the apocalypse' media trope. I could also see people enjoying the humor and characters as well, even if neither were personally my cup of tea. I'd love to hear why you think people seemed to love it so much, though! I enjoy comparing my perceptions to others because it's fun hearing what conclusions or points people reached that were different from mine and to see if perhaps my own perceptions might have been a bit off.

@@spudgun3268 Everyone really liked it but I kept being bothered about how the actors were good (especially the main duo) but the pacing and the plot seemed all over. was it a scary episode? was it a feel-good comedy? we'll never know and apperently the directors dont either 🤷 I think people like it because, it's very easy to digest. A lot of Black Mirror episodes are very much for casual tv viewers, and for people who want their things explained to them in a bite-sized manner. Like you have to think, but not very hard. The answer is right in front of you if you care, and that can make for very good tv since it requires minimum investment.

I wondered what you meant because I didn't see anything wrong with "disorientated" but maybe *I* was wrong, so I looked it up. It's a Bristish English vs American English thing. (Please don't think I'm trying to be rude, I thought it was a cool little thing so I thought I'd share. We -the Great Alizee Yeeze audience- seem to enjoy learning and stuff)

@@papadivertidahuh! I owe an apology to Alizee and the brits!

@@KaleighCee Agree! I am shocked to learn people didn't notice it as much as others. I am really close with my parents and love travel so maybe it felt more personal to me but I thought the time dilation thing mixed with the horror aspects and everything we learn about the main character and his development throughout made for a great episode

My second fav episode for sure. White Bear was my #1

right??? old lesbians finding true love through time and space and circumstance COME ONNNNNNNN. I hope she finishes the episode one day.

💯 yes please to this!!