Black Mirror anyone?

[Jellykat]

After the one with the Prime minister and pig, its got to be done..

[reliablemillipede]

Will never forget the PM and the pig episode !!

Looking forward to next weeks too !

[IrrelevantElephant]

It was all a bit "meh" I thought. Nothing has topped the pig one yet!!

[SoleSource]

Oooh for the sex !! in the attic, good move!

[IrrelevantElephant]

Oh jeez next week's one looks terrifying! I'll come back next week and be 10mins behind again, so can one of you come back and warn me of the scary bits again please!!

[thenightsky]

I think she put him in the attic as a sort of reference to the way his mother had put all his brother's stuff in the attic when he'd died.

[MsNobodyAgain]

It reminded me of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.

Creepy.

[SoleSource]

Fab thread jelly :)

Will be here next week.

[reliablemillipede]

thenightsky Yes, just realised that now.

[Jellykat]

Will do Elephant

Agree re. nothing topping the pig one.. yet.

I'll remind ya Sole i know what you're like

[SoleSource]

yeah you do! :)

[MildlyMiserable]

She could at least have got him to help with the decorating before shoving him in the attic!

[Jellykat]

Agree mildly, a bit of colour wouldn't of gone amiss..

Am watching a the follow on prog. about naturism, feel like a weird voyeur!

[SoleSource]

Some really tiny members, in that club.

[Jellykat]

was actually thinking that too..

[ethelb]

I really like the fairly neutral way charlie brooker writes gender roles but it didnt pass the bechdale test!

[ujjayi]

Could someone tell me the ending please? I missed the last 15 mins. PM me if you don't want to put spoilers in the thread :)

[MarshaBrady]

Hey Ujj, she put the fake guy in the attic. And he must have been there for years as she had a 7 year old ish dd. I got distracted at the crucial bit, however. Something to do with the daughter taking him cake.

[ThatVikRinA22]

he ended up in the attic - just like the photos of his brother after he died and his father after he died - (he explained that his mother had put the photos in the attic after they died) and so that ended up his fate too - just a slightly more modern take on a photo.....

i found it very sad actually and really thought provoking. he writes these really bizarre things that i wouldnt think of in a month of sundays - slightly futuristic but exploring what makes us human.....the onslaught of technology....i really liked it.

looking forward to next weeks.

[TomArchersSausage]

I enjoyed it too - also the last series.

He certainly writes more originally than a lot of predictable tosh on tv.

[Hammy02]

I enjoyed it until the ending. I think it should've ended with her screaming on the top of the cliff. Although I do like Vicar's suggestion that putting him in the attic was like a modern take on a photo. I wasn't clever enough to interpret it that way

[MarshaBrady]

I like the photo idea too. I just phased out towards the end which is a shame as that's where it all happened.

It was slower than the other ones, but the idea does still stick with you.

[LeslieKnope]

I really enjoyed it. Clever, thought-provoking and wonderfully acted.

Wasn't completely sold on the ending but understood it in the same way Vicar did.

Had a bit of a giggle at Martha's transition from scruffy student type to glossy-haired, glam mum

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

I loved it. She couldn't bear to destroy him, but also couldn't live with him. So he's up in the attic, a living ghost, tying her to her grief. I thought it was a perfect ending.

[piratecat]

i was scared, i really didn't like the man in the cool box bit. It really unnerved me, had to turn it over!! Came back to it when he was all moving about.

[FloatyBeatie]

First part was ok, but as soon as she upgraded to the actual robot body the whole story was entirely unoriginal -- a rehash of Spielberg's film about the little robot Pinocchio.

The idea that we might develop software that trawled our splashing of ourselves on the internet so effectively that it could throw back a perfect shadow self is a great one. Very intriguing, and a disturbingly small stone's throw from the commercial trawling of online selves that is already done. But I don't think Brooker did anything at all beyond just articulating that initial intriguing idea. I suppose that's why he's a columnist and a panel show presenter rather than a playwright.