Lets settle this. Hopefully you lot have seen how this works. So put a +1 next to your favourite episode and a -1 against your least favourite. I will start with a default 10 for each episode. I will go first.
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits 11 = (+1)
The Entire History of You = 10
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 9 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 10
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 11
The Entire History of You = 11 (+1)
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 9
The Waldo Moment = 9 (-1)
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The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 13 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 11
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 8 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 8
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 14 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 11
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 7 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 8
While the Waldo Moment was obnoxious and a poorly executed, it had a pretty great premise. The final minute was great television. White Bear was simply bad.
All in all, the second season is miles miles behind the first.
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 15 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 10 (-1)
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 7 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 8
The National Anthem = 11 (+1)
15 Million Merits = 14 (-1)
The Entire History of You = 10
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 8
TNA: An outrageous idea brilliantly executed
15MM: Both the 'The Island' style distopia and the X Factor parody were tired and unoriginal. The love interests were very clumsily done too.
The National Anthem=11
15 Million Merits = 14
The Entire History of You= 10
Be Right Back= 9 (-1)
White Bear = 8 (+1)
The Waldo Moment = 8
The National Anthem= 12 (+1)
15 Million Merits = 14
The Entire History of You= 10
Be Right Back= 9
White Bear = 7 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 8
The National Anthem= 12
15 Million Merits = 14
The Entire History of You= 11 (+1)
Be Right Back= 9
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 7 (-1)
I wish I could give White Bear +1 as well. That, and The Entire History of You, blow the rest of the episodes out of the water.
The National Anthem= 11 (-1)
15 Million Merits = 14
The Entire History of You= 11
Be Right Back= 10 (+1)
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 7
My two cents, bye
The National Anthem = 10 (-1)
15 Million Merits = 15 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 11
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 7
The National Anthem = 11 (+1)
15 Million Merits = 15
The Entire History of You = 11
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 6 (-1)
The National Anthem = 11
15 Million Merits = 16 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 11
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 5 (-1)
The National Anthem = 12 (+1)
15 Million Merits = 15 (-1)
The Entire History of You = 11
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 5
The National Anthem = 12
15 Million Merits = 16 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 10 (-1)
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 5
Would like to give a plus to White Bear as well as it was my clear #2 but there you go.
The National Anthem = 12
15 Million Merits = 16 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 9 (-1)
Be Right Back = 10
White Bear = 8 (+1)
The Waldo Moment = 5
White Bear is absolutely the most brilliant episode in the two series. Be Right Back was my #2 :)
The National Anthem = 12
15 Million Merits = 16
The Entire History of You = 10 (+1)
Be Right Back = 9 (-1)
White Bear = 8
The Waldo Moment = 5
The National Anthem = 12
15 Million Merits = 17 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 10
Be Right Back = 9
White Bear = 8
The Waldo Moment = 4 (-1)
The National Anthem = 12
15 Million Merits = 17
The Entire History of You = 11 (+1)
Be Right Back = 8 (-1)
White Bear = 8
The Waldo Moment = 4
The National Anthem = 12
15 Million Merits = 18 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 11
Be Right Back = 8
White Bear = 7 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 4
Difficult to decide which is worst if White Bear or Waldo Moment, both are similarly ridiculous, I can't see how would politician go into serious conversation into cartoon character, no matter would and knowing who is behind character they would destroy him very quickly with their power, although final minute during credits was quite scary. White Bear was just plain stupid, it's way too dangerous to organize event like that + it can be done basically only on one single criminal since after it would medialized all other criminals would know there is this option so if they would find themself in similar situation they would know what's going on, unless they can selectively erase parts of memory about this event in everyone's mind.
As for the best it's equvivalently difficult to decide, the 1st episode was stunning with shocking factor and very interesting idea of moral dilemma, although there were quite stupid plot holes like not checking DNA of finger or the exaggeration that literally everyone would watch it, but I liked the idea of new media terrorism and enjoyed it a lot. 14MM was very depressive and should be real warning because it really seem our consumer oriented society is heading that direction of cubicles with commercials so annoying you have to pay to not watch them. The other two episodes were not so deep, yeah there are consequences of new technology but we saw clones and memory devices and it's not that big deal just not use them, while this doesn't seem like option in 15MM where you can't avoid way of life they present.
Peter Markoff
The best - Fight Club, American Beauty & Falling Down.
The National Anthem = 12
15 Million Merits = 18
The Entire History of You = 10 (-1)
Be Right Back = 8
White Bear = 8 (+1)
The Waldo Moment = 4
Going against the grain because "White Bear" was my favorite.
I was disturbed by "The Entire History of You" because of the controlling nature of the husband. The scene with the babysitter really put me off.
Fair enough he was upset with his wife, but he involved other people with his problems. The way he bullied the babysitter was an a$$hat move.
The National Anthem = 11 (-1)
15 Million Merits = 19 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 11
Be Right Back = 8
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 4
I don't get the appeal of The National Anthem. I thought that was far and away the weakest episode, and I'm glad I didn't give up on the series before I saw S1E2, which was the best.
White bear and the waldo moment were both very good episodes.
The National Anthem = 10 (-1)
15 Million Merits = 19
The Entire History of You = 12 (+1)
Be Right Back = 8
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 4
Just wanted to play. And we could do this, or we could rate each episode:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/epdate
:D
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 20 (+1)
The Entire History of You = 12
Be Right Back = 8
White Bear = 6 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 4
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 20
The Entire History of You = 12
Be Right Back = 8
White Bear = 7 (+1)
The Waldo Moment = 3 (-1)
I find The Waldo Moment so annoying I can't even watch it.
I've seen things that would make you want to write a book on how to puke.
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 20
The Entire History of You = 13 (+1)
Be Right Back = 7 (-1)
White Bear = 7
The Waldo Moment = 3
"Be Right Back" has terrific acting, but the movie, Her, said more and delivered the hard-hitting ending that Black Mirror didn't. As novel as the idea is of reconstructing a loved-one who has passed on, it is not a phenomenon that would persist like the horrors raised by the other episodes. Black Mirror is most successful when examining inevitable scenarios or parodying contemporary ones.
"15 Million Merits" is the exemplary episode, but "The Entire History of You" is, for me, very much its equal. Both give us an amplification of what is currently happening with technology, but from very different angles. "15MM" presents a society suffocated in technology that does what we once thought too audacious for society to permit - a lesson we have learned through the internet, which delivers a constant feed of free porn while having evolved into a subliminal delivery service for well-dressed propaganda. While adding new hooks to this frequently-grappled subject, "15MM" dramatizes the moral and philosophical dilemmas without pulling punches.
"The Entire History of You" takes surveillance technology and memory storage to an engaging extreme. While almost as unlikely as masses being swept up in reviving lost love ones, this episode won me over by its novel examination of how video recording hardware being wired into human heads - with the eyes as camera lenses - could provide so many means of interpreting one's own life, and shoot past the morass of subjective memory with cold, reliable data. This type of bioengineering isn't far from what Stephen Hawking warns we must do to keep up with computers before they hit that moment of singularity.
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 20
The Entire History of You = 14 (+1)
Be Right Back = 7
White Bear = 6 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 3
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 20
The Entire History of You = 14 (+1)
Be Right Back = 7
White Bear = 6 (-1)
The Waldo Moment = 3
"Be Right Back" has terrific acting, but the movie, Her, said more and delivered the hard-hitting ending that Black Mirror didn't.
The National Anthem = 11(+1)
15 Million Merits = 20
The Entire History of You = 11(-1)
Be Right Back = 8
White Bear = 6
The Waldo Moment = 4
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The Entire History of You, Be Right Back and White Bear are all so amazing that I had a hard time choosing between them. They all have something really interesting to say.
I've seen things that would make you want to write a book on how to puke.
In response to White Bear - they erased your entire memory, not just criminal events. If you were a criminal in the system you would have no memory of ANYTHING. You would wake up each day knowing nothing, just like the woman in the episode...
shareEntire memory, so you mean also how to walk, speak, how to dress etc.? Because entire memory is very vague term, it seem to me they just erased everything maybe since they commited their crime, but as I said once this show would go on they would just remember they saw something like this in media and if they would find themself in this situation with crazy people string at them thyey would know what's happening.
Peter Markoff
The best - Fight Club, American Beauty & Falling Down.
The National Anthem - 9
15 Million Merits - 21
The Entire History of You - 15 (-1)
Be Right Back - 7
White Bear - 8 (+1)
While I enjoyed every episode thoroughly, I felt White Bear made some important points about our vengeance filled society and neo-Medievalist obsession with mass-shaming and punishment.
The National Anthem - 9
15 Million Merits - 20 (-1)
The Entire History of You - 15
Be Right Back - 7
White Bear - 9 (+1)
White Bear was definitely my favorite episode.
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You're doing it wrong. ;) I believe you should be posting in reply to the deep thread above. Cheers!
shareHey Peeps
Whilst the discussion is great, it is making this poll out of sync, with long posts, and last poster's scores didnt even make sense. Below is the latest scoring so lets continue from there.
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 20
The Entire History of You = 14
Be Right Back = 7
White Bear = 6
The Waldo Moment = 3
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The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 21
The Entire History of You = 15 (+1)
Be Right Back = 7
White Bear = 5
The Waldo Moment = 2 (-1)
The National Anthem = 10
15 Million Merits = 21
The Entire History of You = 16 (+1)
Be Right Back = 7
White Bear = 5
The Waldo Moment = 1 (-1)
The National Anthem - 10
15 Million Merits - 21
The Entire History of You - 16
Be Right Back - 7
White Bear - 6 (+)
The Waldo Moment - 0 (-)
The Waldo Moment has been ELIMINATED! Which, tbh, is pretty satisfying to be responsible for considering it was the only episode I hated.
The National Anthem - 10
15 Million Merits - 21
The Entire History of You - 16
Be Right Back - 6 (+)
White Bear - 7 (-)
The Waldo Moment - 0
The National Anthem - 9 (-1)
15 Million Merits - 21
The Entire History of You - 16
Be Right Back - 7 (+1)
White Bear - 7
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"It's better not to know so much about what things mean." David Lynch
The National Anthem - 9
15 Million Merits - 21
The Entire History of You - 17 (+1)
Be Right Back - 7
White Bear - 6 (-1)
This is truly a novel and interesting show.
The National Anthem - 9
15 Million Merits - 21
The Entire History of You - 17
Be Right Back - 6 (-1)
White Bear - 7 (+1)
Guess I have a pretty unpopular opinion lol my other favorite was The National Anthem.
The National Anthem - 8 (-1)
15 Million Merits - 22 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 16 (-1)
Be Right Back - 5 (-1)
White Bear - 8 (+1)
The Waldo Moment - 0 (-1)
Since user "geovibe" screwed up the scoring, I will respond to the user before him:
The National Anthem - 9
15 Million Merits - 22 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 17
Be Right Back - 6
White Bear - 6 (-1)
The Waldo Moment - 0
The National Anthem - 9
15 Million Merits - 23 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 17
Be Right Back - 6
White Bear - 6
The Waldo Moment - -1 (-1)
Waldo into negatives...
The National Anthem - 10 (+1)
15 Million Merits - 22 (-1)
The Entire History of You - 17
Be Right Back - 6
White Bear - 6
The Waldo Moment - -1
The National Anthem - 10
15 Million Merits - 23 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 17
Be Right Back - 6
White Bear - 6
The Waldo Moment - -2 (-1)
The National Anthem - 10
15 Million Merits - 24 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 17
Be Right Back - 6
White Bear - 6
The Waldo Moment - -3 (-1)
The National Anthem - 10
15 Million Merits - 25 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 17
Be Right Back - 6
White Bear - 6
The Waldo Moment - -4 (-1)
The National Anthem - 11 (+1)
15 Million Merits - 24 (-1)
The Entire History of You - 17
Be Right Back - 6
White Bear - 6
The Waldo Moment - -4
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 24
The Entire History of You - 18 (+1)
Be Right Back - 5 (-1)
White Bear - 6
The Waldo Moment - -4
Just came back to this thread I started. For anyone who doesnt know once a score goes negative it should be eliminated so am taking out the Waldo moment. Also adding in the xmas special. Little unfair I know as some of the shows have a head start but it is what it is.
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 24
The Entire History of You - 18
Be Right Back - 5
White Bear - 6
White Christmas - 10
Eliminated
The waldo moment
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 24
The Entire History of You - 18
Be Right Back - 5
White Bear - 5 -1
White Christmas - 11 +1
Eliminated
The waldo moment
The National Anthem - 10 (-1)
15 Million Merits - 24
The Entire History of You - 18
Be Right Back - 5
White Bear - 6 (+1)
White Christmas - 11
Eliminated
The waldo moment
Interesting how White Bear seems to divide people (9+ and 15-).
The National Anthem - 11 (+1)
15 Million Merits - 24
The Entire History of You - 18
Be Right Back - 4 (-1)
White Bear - 6
White Christmas - 11
Eliminated
The waldo moment
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 25 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 18
Be Right Back - 4
White Bear - 5 (-1)
White Christmas - 11
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 24 (-1)
The Entire History of You - 18
Be Right Back - 5 (+1)
White Bear - 5
White Christmas - 11
http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=the+crazed+madman
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 25 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 18
Be Right Back - 4 (-1)
White Bear - 5
White Christmas - 11
White Christmas is a very close second.
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 25
The Entire History of You - 19 (+1)
Be Right Back - 4
White Bear - 4 (-1)
White Christmas - 11
15 Million Merits - 24 (-1)
The Entire History of You - 19
Be Right Back - 4
White Bear - 4
White Christmas - 12 (+1)
A rose is just a rose.
15 Million Merits - 25 (+1)
The Entire History of You - 19
Be Right Back - 4
White Bear - 3 (-1)
White Christmas - 12
I know it doesn't look like it, but that little bird is really a dove asking us for world peace
Cool.
share15 Million Merits - 25
The Entire History of You - 19
Be Right Back - 3 (-1)
White Bear - 4 (+1)
White Christmas - 12
OH SPOILER ALERT!
15 Million Merits - 25
The Entire History of You - 19
Be Right Back - 4 (+1)
White Bear - 3 (-1)
White Christmas - 12
15 Million Merits - 24 (-1)
The Entire History of You - 20 (+1)
Be Right Back - 4
White Bear - 3
White Christmas - 12
White Bear is a strong #2 though.
Now having watched
15 Million Merits - 24
The Entire History of You - 20
Be Right Back - 3 (-1)
White Bear - 4 (+1)
White Christmas - 12
I feel bad for White Bear because I feel like people either loved it or hated it.
Yet those who loved it still have over episodes that they loved and therefore are not backing it.
I liked the message of 15 Million Merits but I feel like they could have done it better without the talent show analogy.
Sad the National Anthem has been long gone
TBH the ones left are the best ones other than Be Right Back which was definitely the worst for me.
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 24
The Entire History of You - 20
Be Right Back - 2 (-1)
White Bear - 5 (+1)
White Christmas - 12
White Bear was superb: chilling and creepy, with an air of menace and unease throughout, as if things weren't what they seemed, followed by a horrifying ending that nobody could have predicted. Exactly what this kind of dystopian sci-fi should be.
I couldn't stand Waldo, largely because Waldo was obnoxious rather than witty, but that's already gone. I quite liked all the others, especially White Christmas (similar themes to White Bear, with horrifying ending) but I suppose Be Right Back was the one I enjoyed least, as it was fairly predictable.
PS I think someone a few posts up forgot to copy/paste The National Anthem, so I added it with the score it had before.
The National Anthem - 11
15 Million Merits - 24
The Entire History of You - 20
Be Right Back - 3 (+1)
White Bear - 4 (-1)
White Christmas - 12
I feel like I've seen 20 variations on White Bear already. The Purge trilogy is really close in theme, down to the people on the street wearing masks and wielding power tools and shotguns and the mind-trick where the hunted people end up on stage with an audience watching them. It felt very derivative to me.
Be Right Back is probably the most intimate of all the episodes, but something about it really stayed with me. The idea that you can 'resurrect' a loved one after they'd died is so appealing and so very close to being possible (from using videos, Facebook/twitter/Tumblr posts) that it's very tempting. It really opens up a lot of ethical issues, because companionship and happiness with a 95% perfect facsimile of somebody you adore is a hard thing to give up, but it's not them. But if the life model says and reacts in ways your husband would have done and looks just like him, is it wrong to want to hold on to a sliver of that kind of happiness and companionship? Why settle for another man who doesn't make you laugh like he does? What a total mind f#ck! The acting was absolutely brilliant and heartbreaking, too.
I've already voted long ago, but I'm really digging the brief explanations some recent posters have added to their ratings. It's good to see why people liked the ones I didn't or vice versa.
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