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Black Mirror Season 5 Discussion

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Black Mirror Season 5 should (hopefully) be coming out soon. Netflix has not officially given any release date as of yet. Many fans believed it would be coming out this month (December), since Season 4 came out last December.

In recent news, Netflix may be releasing at least one episode/film of Black Mirror called 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' on December 28th. The may be an episode, or a one off Black Mirror film, it's run time is reportedly 90 minutes, and it supposedly takes place in the early 1980's. Info on the the possible release date came in the form of Netflix tweet in November that was swiftly deleted, giving release dates of some Netflix's sci-fi related series and movies. Around a month later, a holding page for Bandersnatch popped up on the streaming service, featuring only the message "Be right back" and the length of the episode, 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Hopefully we will get something released on December 28th!

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We should tell them, release Black Mirror season 5 or we’ll create a copy of your consciousness forever locked in a moment of horrible pain!
 
I know it's a long shot, but I've been hoping for a sequel to "Hated in the Nation," my favorite episode and the only other episode to run 90 minutes. If "Bandersnatch" does take place in the 80's (this is the first time I've read that but I haven't been following the rumors closely), then it's probably not a sequel. Like I said, a long shot...
 
Jayson1 said:
I think this is the right episode. It's were the bad museum is burned to the ground and the prisioner who keeps getting tortured is stopped and the lady trapped in the teddy bear is sort of rescued.

Jason
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In my head canon they uploaded her to San Junipero after she was rescued.

If that were the last episode it would be perfect. Like a human response to the show.

Amazing how few happy endings we get. USS Calister, San Junipero, and I can’t remember any others.
 
Is Bandersnatch very frumious? Apparently, you can get through it in a minimum of 40 minutes but I don't know if that misses out any good bits or just fluff.
 
Well, Bandersnatch is certainly an experience. Specifically, its like if someone who has literally fried their brains on drugs clocked you upside the head, tied you up in their basement and ranted about contrails and lizard people, all while thinking that they're fucking Morpheus from The Matrix.

I FUCKING HATE DRUG ADDLED CONSPIRACY CHARACTERS IN ANY FORM OF MEDIA. I almost chucked by remote at the screen when the blonde shithead started ranting about Pac-Man. You can tell that the assholes who wrote this thought that they were really clever, when in reality it just comes off as people who have ruined their minds with drugs got paid by Netflix to fuck up a cool sounding gimmick and waste a decent amount of money. Also, the main character was the most cringe worthy character I've seen on TV in awhile, he's like Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts but without an ounce of charm.

I hope a good show on Netflix uses a "choose your own adventure" gimmick (and I don't mean kids shows, since there are a few things like that already), because the people with their heads up their own asses who already make one of the more unpleasant sci fi shows with Black Mirror really just wasted the idea.
 
Asbo Zaprudder said:
Is Bandersnatch very frumious? Apparently, you can get through it in a minimum of 40 minutes but I don't know if that misses out any good bits or just fluff.
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There are 5 main endings supposedly. The shortest one is kind of a joke about Netflix. I've only seen 4/5. Trying to get to the happy ending.
 
kirk55555 said:
Well, Bandersnatch is certainly an experience. Specifically, its like if someone who has literally fried their brains on drugs clocked you upside the head, tied you up in their basement and ranted about contrails and lizard people, all while thinking that they're fucking Morpheus from The Matrix.

I FUCKING HATE DRUG ADDLED CONSPIRACY CHARACTERS IN ANY FORM OF MEDIA. I almost chucked by remote at the screen when the blonde shithead started ranting about Pac-Man. You can tell that the assholes who wrote this thought that they were really clever, when in reality it just comes off as people who have ruined their minds with drugs got paid by Netflix to fuck up a cool sounding gimmick and waste a decent amount of money. Also, the main character was the most cringe worthy character I've seen on TV in awhile, he's like Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts but without an ounce of charm.

I hope a good show on Netflix uses a "choose your own adventure" gimmick (and I don't mean kids shows, since there are a few things like that already), because the people with their heads up their own asses who already make one of the more unpleasant sci fi shows with Black Mirror really just wasted the idea.
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I'm guessing you don't like any of Charlie Brooker's past oeuvre either.
 
Finished playing around with this episode a little while ago. I may or may not have made it to all the endings; until there is a definitive list somewhere, I won't know.

Fun and relatively innovative, but not as much as you think. If I want to play a game, I play one. If I want to watch TV, I do that. Turning a show into a game like this leaves you with the same frustrated, empty feeling the old choose-your-own-adventure books used to. In the end it feels like there was really no real story at all, and I was just screwing around for a couple hours.
 
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Okay, based on the flowchart I didn't see every possible clip, but I did navigate to each ending.

Whole thing took me about 2.5 hours, and I only had to restart the show 'from the beginning' once.
 
Hmm, I'm glad someone thought it worthwhile to go through the whole thing and document it. Judging by the flowchart, I think I can probably save some time and not bother to watch it at all. It appears to be too revealing of the internal mind states of Charlie Brooker, based on either real or imagined experiences, and I don't think I care one jot.
 
Asbo Zaprudder said:
Hmm, I'm glad someone thought it worthwhile to go through the whole thing and document it. Judging by the flowchart, I think I can probably save some time and not bother to watch it at all. It appears to be too revealing of the internal mind states of Charlie Brooker, based on either real or imagined experiences, and I don't think I care one jot.
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You're missing out then. I found the experience wonderful, I got all the bad endings and finally got to the toy ending. Made it seem like it was Stefan escaping the story.
 
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