Oh honey.

That's only that episode. That episode is an outlier

The rest of the show is pessimistic dystopia at best.

I do love some cozy, optimistic sci-fi.

Well, as others have said, Black Mirror is definitely not cozy/optimistic. In my opinion, it's easy to miss the final point of San Junipero. You have to have watched the episode White Christmas. If you've seen that episode, you know what cookies are and you know that there is an implication in the last seconds of San Junipero that, in my opinion, is pretty dark.

Still the best fucking episode though.

Cozy and optimistic is an interesting way to describe that show...

(Edit: I looked up which episode that was, and now your comment makes more sense. Its been a while since I watched black mirror and I kind of forgot any of them had happy endings.)

How do none of the replies notice your obvious joke?

That's one of the best episodes by far. Honestly, stop while you're ahead.

There needs to be more mention of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate

I think it was writer Daniel M. Lavery who described Black Mirror as, "What if cell phone... but too much!"

To me that’s always been the point of the show.

Take some real world thing and push it to the point of being dystopian.

In the “Facebook likes” one, you can make a connection to social credit systems IRL.

The explanation is applying a “slippery slope” fallacy for pretty much every single concept.

The explanation of “how we got there” is all around you. Every day.

FWIW, showrunner Charlie Brooker says that the starting point for every episode is finding an idea he thinks is funny

and what a fantastic first dystopian scifi those first seasons were (for me)

They are but since we don't get a lot of true scifi media ( I would describe most as space fantasy ) I'll take what I can get

Honestly, the second episode "Fifteen Million Merits" was the most soul crushing thing I had ever watched, the first episode paled in comparison. Then again, I'm not a pig so clearly Peppa would be a little more traumatized.

Had it happen with love death and robots too. I think if there's a new season out it starts you on the 1st ep of the newest "complete" season, which is really annoying.

Its probably because she was episode 1 of a different season not season 1

edit: actually you may be right others are saying similar stuff

It's like Requiem for a Dream. Great movie, would recommend it to anyone except my elderly mother, am not gonna fuckin ever watch it a second time.

The author said in an interview that it was a filter to get the public he wants for the series. No idea if that's post-facto rationalization, though.

Anyway, Netflix changed their entire system so that they could order that one show differently. It's the last episode there.

Doesn't convey any meaning whatsoever??

what did you watch it?

Literally watched it when it first aired. Never watched another episode after even though it's the kind of thing that should be my cup of tea and I hear so much good about it. Whenever I hear people talk about it I think I should try it again, then forget about it.

It used to be dark scifi, now it's horror.

The one with the pig.

And not just the chat.