[barbeler]

Just nipping back to White Bear again, I thought it was mainly designed to portray a version of hell. I think the incomplete memory wipe was deliberate, otherwise there would have been no point in working the white bear into the rather over-elaborate fabrication about that power plant. It seemed to be put there to cause flashbacks.

[Cylinder]

I think Black Mirror is great.

I hated the Waldo episode, but I think the 5 other episodes have been excellent.

I suppose it's inevitable that you won't enjoy some episodes as much as others - especially when they have to be totally
different stories each week, with different actors etc..

I think I was in shock on Monday, because I thought Waldo was so awful - which was completely unexpected, because I really admire Charile Brooker.
But if you can do 6 different stories, and 5 of them be excellent, then that's a great average.
Also National Anthem is my favourite episode, and I know some people can't stand that one.

[BellaRosa]

Originally Posted by shirlt9

I would have thought that fact that it took him an hour was an indication that he wasnt enjoying it and "struggled"..would have been concerned if it was over with in 3 minutes

I thought they gave him Viagra to 'help' so assumed he had no problem getting erm .. you know what And by what the viewers were saying gave me that impression ....So he could have stopped at any time surly.

I'm not watching it again to check it tho

[Declan_Khan]

Originally Posted by BellaRosa

I thought they gave him Viagra to 'help' so assumed he had no problem getting erm .. you know what And by what the viewers were saying gave me that impression ....So he could have stopped at any time surly.

I'm not watching it again to check it tho

Getting hard and getting off are two different things. He might have been erect the whole time because of the pills they gave him but he had to complete the act which I can imagine may have been a bit more challenging.

I think the fact The Waldo Moment was apparently a rehashed idea from years ago that didn't even make the cut for Nathan Barley suggests it wasn't so great then either.

I am really curious what was so controversial about the script for Inbound that it wasn't used for this series while the weak Waldo Moment script was. I know Brooker said it had something to do with an active terrorist cell trying to organise multiple attacks at once so perhaps they didn't want to provide any ideas for possible options on a national TV channel.

[jy1541]

That last episode was probably my favourite of Series 2. There wasn't really a message, so much as several conflicting messages.

We know party politics is corrupt and not very good at representing public opinion; on the other hand we're reminded that public opinion is usually apathetic, uninformed and/or reactionary; then the ending, and the storyline of the main character (not Waldo), was to show how 'revolutionary' movements opposed to party politics and started by well-intentioned people/groups are almost always easily co-opted by people with more sinister agendas.

If there was a message, I'd say it was a warning to everyone that they should be more politically aware.

One minor thing that irked me was the vote count, I can't see Tory voters voting for Waldo, which meant most of those votes would have otherwise gone to Labour. That would have been enough to give her the seat, yet it was portrayed as 'unwinnable'.

[silentNate]

Originally Posted by Declan_Khan

Getting hard and getting off are two different things. He might have been erect the whole time because of the pills they gave him but he had to complete the act which I can imagine may have been a bit more challenging.

I think the fact The Waldo Moment was apparently a rehashed idea from years ago that didn't even make the cut for Nathan Barley suggests it wasn't so great then either.

I am really curious what was so controversial about the script for Inbound that it wasn't used for this series while the weak Waldo Moment script was. I know Brooker said it had something to do with an active terrorist cell trying to organise multiple attacks at once so perhaps they didn't want to provide any ideas for possible options on a national TV channel.

BIB... just suggests that we are not going to get the treat of a second Nathan Barley season

[Declan_Khan]

Apparently The Complete History Of You is being adapted into a movie set to star Robert Downey Jr. It joins State Of Play and House Of Cards as yet another UK TV drama to adapted for the USA as a high budget, A list starring remake.

[emma555]

I think the idea of The Entire History of You is great, they just took it on a small domestic scale, but you could go anywhere with the story, so should be interesting.