Netflix's "Black Mirror"

[Joeker]

I went thru the whole thing, and got a few of the endings.

I didnt really care for the story to be honest which is why I think I was bored with it. And one of the endings having to do

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I thought was dumb.

I appreciate what they were trying to do with the episode being interactive but it just wasnt for me.

[LynxFX]

Played through it for a couple hours and I think I managed to get all the endings and most of the 'dead ends'. I thought it was pretty entertaining overall. Lots of meta jokes throughout and even some replay easter eggs that aren't there on the first run. It does help that you can just fast forward when it sends you back to replay a section.

Is it the best Black Mirror episode? No. It is quite ambitious though and fairly seamless in its operation. Better than the other choose your own adventure shows I've watched on Netflix.

Best choice...

[Show spoiler]F uck Yeah

[LynxFX]

Someone made a flow chart of the all the decisions. Looks like there are some random moments. There is only one section that I couldn't get to because I never got the correct random event.

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[Foggy]

I enjoyed it, even if the story gets a bit mumbled up, for example

[Show spoiler]Colin jumped out the window but ended up popping up in the end once Stefan killed his dad

. It’s more a comment on the nature of free will and the claustrophobic routines of reality, whilst also commenting on Black Mirror’s abundance of cynicism itself, using the gimmick to reverse-engineer it’s own ethos. As an experiment it’s impressive, engaging and fun, as a Black Mirror episode it’s on par with most the decent episodes. As always with these things, I wish it was even more expansive, but that’s just part and parcel when it comes to these things. The Netflix endings are a bit dumb though.

[Pounder]

Pretty good.

[Mattgreenbean]

I loved it for the fact that I would like more of these, (and eventually on bluray.)

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by RodChester

Just finished watching this and I thought it was pretty good. I’m curious to those that have said they didn’t like it, did you keep watching until all the choices stopped coming up and Netflix autoplayed another episode? There were a lot of points during the movie where I was shown an ending and given the option to watch the credits or go back to an earlier point and go through things again. I kept doing this, making different choices and was even given different options than what I was given the first time through a scenario. Eventually the movie ended with an ending and I wasn’t allowed to go back to an earlier point and continue on. I think everyone really needs to keep going through choices until you aren’t allowed to anymore. This is a really interesting and important piece of entertainment.

No, it really isn’t. It’s a gimmick. A gimmick that will get real old, real quick. I made it through 30 minutes and turned it off due to boredom.

Also, if you can change things by revisiting and picking a different option, there are literally no consequences.

[RodChester]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

No, it really isn’t. It’s a gimmick. A gimmick that will get real old, real quick. I made it through 30 minutes and turned it off due to boredom.

Also, if you can change things by revisiting and picking a different option, there are literally no consequences.

But there are consequences. Each choice you make is just one of many realities. Going back and making a different choice leads to new options in other realities. Every option, choice and possible combination happens in one reality or another. We get too see multiple realities rather than just one.

[jayman3]

I have an Apple TV,

Apparently this interactive episode is invalid.

How can I experience this besides the Apple TV?

Would it be accessible on the computer or Netflix app on iPhone?

[RodChester]

It should work fine on your computer or phone.

[Joeker]

Did any1 try watching this and not make any choices? What happens when the 10 seconds are up?

[RodChester]

Originally Posted by Joeker

Did any1 try watching this and not make any choices? What happens when the 10 seconds are up?

It will automatically choose whatever choice it defaults to.

[Joeker]

I might have to watch it without making any choices. I wonder what ending is the default ending.

[Makarov]

I thought it was pretty cool, a few memorable moments that were clever. The netflix endings were my favorite. Plus I liked the old computer game stuff.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

No, it really isn’t. It’s a gimmick. A gimmick that will get real old, real quick. I made it through 30 minutes and turned it off due to boredom.

Also, if you can change things by revisiting and picking a different option, there are literally no consequences.

You’ve kinda missed the point, the idea isn’t to give the viewer freedom, it’s all an illusion. The ability to change outcomes isn’t to relinquish consequence, but to point out the futility of freewill. The paths may wind up being different but the conclusion comes to the same place. It’s fine not to like it, but to disregard it as just s gimmick is to miss the point in what it’s commenting on itself.

[Marv Inc.]

I thought it was kino. Really well done and the netflix ending made me ,lol.

[kristoffer]

I just finished and really liked the experience. Reminded me of Mass Effect.

Also, the whole episode was a huge celebration of my favourite author Philip K. Dick. I have that Ubik poster that shows up at one point.

I tried all the ending except, I

[Show spoiler]couldn't get the number for the psychiatrist, right.

What happens if

[Show spoiler]you manage to call her?

[kristoffer]

Never mind, found the answer here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmirror...ndings_thread/

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by Foggy

You’ve kinda missed the point, the idea isn’t to give the viewer freedom, it’s all an illusion. The ability to change outcomes isn’t to relinquish consequence, but to point out the futility of freewill. The paths may wind up being different but the conclusion comes to the same place. It’s fine not to like it, but to disregard it as just s gimmick is to miss the point in what it’s commenting on itself.

That's one of the outcomes also, he says he took away so much of the player's choices in the game and just makes it seem like they have it, but he's in control the whole time.

I watched this tonight, and went back and did a few alternates. Some give dead ends and make you go back to the previous question. There are a few different endings but they all end mostly the same, with a little tv news portion about the game and the dialogue is different depending on what you choose to get there, but you still mostly end up in jail except once when it was Pearl in the present and once where his game flopped and he's sitting watching the news with his dad, and then it makes you restart.

All in all, I feel like the approach was a little pretentious and they should've just went with a normal special with the ideas implemented as something we see taking place (restarting, etc) but he doesn't know it's happening. That and this didn't have any sort of moral to the story, like it wasn't about some advancement in science or anything, it was just a story and didn't feel like Black Mirror.

[SleeperAgent]

Colin was the best part of the movie.

I feel like this went too far down the rabbirt hole. They gave us freedom to choose what happens, which in reality for a tv show/movie is groundbreaking. But by the end the main character was already preventing choices that we made from happening which feels like something that would be cool later on in this type of movie genres lifespan. Maybe it was just the paths I chose, but near the end the character barely listened to my choices, then eventually gave up and literally asked me what to decide.

Breaking the fourth wall was kind of inevitable, but it really wasnt done well. I really wish this didnt have the name Black Mirror attached to it. It kinda drags the whole series down.