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TPRJones wrote:That's the one I mean.

Let me clarify: episode 1, season 1.

Let me clarify: that's the one. Unless I'm drastically off the rails.



Edited By Malcolm on 1442975085

TPRJones wrote:Exactly, yes. Seen the news lately on Cameron?

I mean it's not really the same. But any coincidence involving both a pig, a prime minister, and a penis is a bit odd.

Why the fuck would you join a society with that name?

I swear I read it was this season's first episode. I recall the first ep of the show being about the woman, and her male friend. And, uh... not much else.



Edited By TheCatt on 1443009991

TheCatt wrote:I swear I read it was this season's first episode. I recall the first ep of the show being about the woman, and her male friend. And, uh... not much else.

I just read the recap. I must be thinking of a completely different show.

OOOHHHH... I am thinking of Orphan Black.

Saw the Christmas episode thing. The theme seems to be blocking people, which is an interesting, yet flawed premise (will explain).

The twist in the first one was too easy to guess.
The second one also seemed quite obvious.
The wrap-up at the end ... why in the fuck would you do that to the cookie? What's the point in torturing it? The dude's locked the fuck up.

Blocking people...
It seems to me that I'd want to remember sights and sounds from those who could potentially be threats to me, especially the red pervy ones. Why the fuck would you blot out their face and voice, i.e. primary things used to identify individuals?



Edited By Malcolm on 1459219870

TPRJones wrote:The red bit works in that you would just treat them all as potential threats. The others not so much.

I'd still prefer to know exactly which perv/psycho is stalking me as opposed to a pixelated, grey, vaguely humanoid shape ... which actually seems way creepier than a person. I want to know if it's Gary Glitter versus Jeffrey Dahmer. Shit, Paul Reubens would show up red.



Edited By Malcolm on 1459220760

1-4 down. [4,2,1,3] so far.

Fuck 4 was good.



Edited By Troy on 1459320214

Maybe pig-fucking is like a super common thing in England that I had just not heard about until late last year.

I know sheep-shagging was a thing the Scots(?) were accused of pretty often.

E: the end of the Christmas episode with the reveal about his daughter got me pretty good. Should have expected it.



Edited By Troy on 1459456622

I know sheep-shagging was a thing the Scots(?) were accused of pretty often.

That's a joke for a shitload of cultures. Scots, New Zealanders, Bedouins, etc. I heard a couple versions of this one over in the UK quite often:

As I was traveling along in Scotland/New Zealand, I came upon one of the locals fucking a sheep. I said, "You know, back where I'm from we shear those." The response came back, "Get your own."

Edited By Malcolm on 1459458765

Watched S3E1: Nosedive. Someone already did it better.

S3E2: Playtest

An annoying American twenty-something tourist who's one backpack guitar shy of being a complete douchebag travels around the world and gets stuck in the UK on the last leg of the journey due to lack of funds. Fortunately, there's an app to find jobs for people with no discernible skills and he picks an advert for a Japanese game company with a reclusive hermit savant for a CEO. His new tech is an implant which is supposed to superimpose interactive 3-D graphics on top of your normal perceptions of real time and space, almost like Tupac holograms only you can see. After a small test, Annoying American is invited to the full-blown test, where he's placed in a creepy-ass looking mansion out in the middle of nowhere to experience the "ultimate personal survival horror game." Turns out hermit-savant dude has also developed some tech that can scan your brain to figure out how to fuck with you the best. Imagine if the Director from any L4D game was telepathic and utterly focused on destroying your sanity.

This ep felt like a condensed, low budget version of Inception. Whenever he goes down a level, so to speak, it's telegraphed with a big neon sign. Those tells coupled with the protagonist's inherent unlikability mean you probably won't give a fuck what happens to him by the end.

S3E3: Shut Up and Dance

Remember the one Star Trek: TNG ep where Leonard Nimoy guest starred and he and Picard got captured by the Romulan Tasha Yar? She tried to blackmail him into making a recorded speech and threatened him with death if he didn't comply. His reply was spectacular:

Since it is logical to conclude that you will kill us in any event, I choose not to cooperate.

That and keeping a post-it note on your webcam seem to be the main points of the story.

S3E4: San Junipero

The story starts out with two chicks in the '80s. It's extremely difficult to go into much more detail because it goes somewhere way the fuck else after that. I'll say the writer most likely played or read up on a certain MMOG to prep for this, which I'm not even going to link to because it'd kill things. This is the first ep of the season that I'd call "good."

S3E5: Men Against Fire

If you know what that title references, you should have this ep sussed out in around 5-10 minutes. Even if you don't, you'll have suspicions. A military squad is tasked to clear an area of "roaches," which are somewhere between Orcs and Cenobites. After taking out a couple of them hiding in a closet, one soldier picks up the flashlight-looking thingy they dropped and inexplicably hits the on switch. I'll stop there. I've found this to be the weakest ep so far of the new season. It has all the subtlety of a Maxim Gorky play and less suspense than a Spurs-Timberwolves game. The protagonist is also a complete dumb-ass who seems to forget all military training and common sense past a certain point in the script.