Television

Minor spoilers, I'll try not to give too much away.

• Episode 2, Bête Noire, the episode ends in a positive note, but is more in the weird category in terms of endings.
• Episode 3, Hotel Reverie, generally ends on a happy note however it has a lot of sad moments within the episode.
• Episode 5, Eulogy, is probably the saddest episode of the season. It's also arguably the best. The ending I think is a positive one. It's a general theme of loss and closure.
• Episode 6, USS Callister: Into Infinity, I think of you found the first USS Callister episode to end on a positive note then I would say the same applies here. They both end with a similar feeling.

Did you just ask if an episode of black mirror ended on a positive note?

Black mirror is inspired by the great scifi anthologies such as the twilight zone, which themselves are an offshoot of scifi short story anthologies (as in books). The formula is pretty well established, you'll get a cold open, some rich world building based on technology, and, most of the times, a bleak and existential ending.

Sorry but that's kind of baked in the entire genre...

I'm anxious about watching them too. I loved the feeling of hopelessness and inevitability they left you with, but these days I'm just not ready for it. I think it's because we're all living with a standard baseline of that sensation now. It's not a novel, if unpleasant, feeling you get to experience for an evening after watching.

Not as intense, but basically the same as how war veterans with PTSD don't really want to watch Saving Private Ryan.

Honestly I've struggled to get into it, or anything else bleak, since covid. I might just be depressed, though.

Oh I know the feeling! I just watched Arkangel of season 4, since that's where I left off. Half way through I asked myself why I'm doing this to myself. It's actually not a horrible episode, but in general Black Mirror is just leaving you with a very high quality depression.

Hmmm. I've always heard good things about this show, but yeahhhh, not sure I can bear to watch bleak things right now. Unless a couple of amazing things happen, but those are very unlikely.

I thought episodes 4 and 6 were top notch! Both were very entertaining and have the uncommon somewhat optimistic ending for Black Mirror.

Watch the second episode.

I felt the same after the episode. We had to pause auto play and take 5 min to get back on track. The first episode of this season hits so hard because it feels so real and achievable I think. The next one is also dark but more in a this can never happen kind of way. I’ll continue watching. But I kind if love feeling awful after reading a story or watch a movie. I like being hit really hard with emotions.

Why are you asking people for subjective opinions? Go ahead and read the summary and ruin whatever episode you want for yourself. I feel like this is mostly a request for a free therapist more than anything else. Sorry that TV shows are capable of making you "just can't"ing. That has to be embarrassing and socially crippling.