I love that it's a period piece that really feels like that time period, and all of the characters are fleshed out and fully realized. It's funny, and pretty much a story about a girl and her demon. And, the best word I can use to describe this episode is "charming." That might sound like a bad thing, but I actually think it’s great. "Demon 79" goes full horror and feels like it could be its own separate series. Starring Anjana Vasan, and Paapa Essiedu, "Demon 79" is about a shoe saleswoman who is coerced into having to kill 3 people in order to prevent Armageddon. When ranking the best seasons of Black Mirror in the future, I think a lot of people's positioning of Season 6 will depend on what they felt about the season's capper, "Demon 79," which may be the least Black Mirror episode yet (It even went under the moniker of "Red Mirror," to suggest that this was something entirely different from the typical Black Mirror episode). Maybe on repeat viewings, I’ll come to love this episode like I do other episodes like “White Bear,” or “The Entire History of You,” but for now, I'm still kind of on the fence about it. The story kind of meanders after the shocking moment in the middle, and even though "Beyond the Sea's" ending is chilling (and bleak), I didn't find it all that interesting. It has a SUPER fascinating form of technology, but the story around it doesn’t quite live up to the actual innovation of the tech. “Beyond the Sea” is a good episode that gets close to being great, but doesn’t quite reach those heights. It all leads to a really dour ending.Īnd, that may be why it was so frustrating for me, since I kind of figured where the episode was heading. The astronaut who loses everything borrows the body of the other astronaut, and basically falls in love with his wife. What follows is what you kind of expect to happen. That is until a real whack job screws everything up with a home invasion that kills off one of the astronaut’s whole family, leaving him with nothing. These replicas continue living life on Earth with their families, and all seems great. Starring Aaron Paul (who played one of the best characters in one of my favorite shows, Breaking Bad ), and Josh Hartnett as two astronauts (in an alternate timeline 1969, for some reason) who are on an important, multi-year mission up in space, but, through questionable technology, allows them to also have replicas of themselves down on earth. "Beyond The Sea" is probably the most frustrating episode this season for me. Related: Breaking Down Joan Is Awful's Twisty Ending and What It Means.Overall, it's an okay episode, but it doesn't reach the heights of something like, say, "Nosedive." And, while riffing on the platform it’s featured on is funny, the joke runs dry by the end. The message of how we're willing to give so much of ourselves away on the internet is a bit muddled, and sort of gets lost with Salma Hayek's role in the episode. And, I don't necessarily mean that in a good way. So, why is it toward the bottom of this list then? Well, because it's A LOT. Hell, it even has notable guest stars in out-of-character roles. A driving storyline that crescendos into a pessimistic/"but-there's-still-time!" Slightly optimistic ending? Yep. Does it have interesting technology? Yep. Is it a commentary on current (and near-future) events? Yep. "Joan Is Awful" is about as Black Mirror an episode as you can get. This is all made possible by the lengthy terms & conditions policies that nobody really reads through. In this commentary on Netflix itself, a woman named Joan (Murphy) has a Netflix-esque show created about her that basically exposes and even embellishes her life to make it “must-see” TV. The star-studded episode, “Joan Is Awful” features Salma Hayek, Annie Murphy, Himesh Patel, and Michael Cera.
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