Since the first season of "Black Mirror" came out in 2011, it has been dubbed a "divine drama", and to this day, people still think of the shocking scene in the first episode of the first season "God Save My Lord", which also sets the main tone for the whole show - to explore the impact of advanced technology on people's lives in a dark humor and strong irony, and to reflect on its harm.
Since then, many highlight episodes have also been a theme story, proving this from different levels and strongly reversed narratives: the "reality TV chaos" exposed in the second episode of the first season, people who have been under camera surveillance have completely lost their freedom; The first episode of the third season satirizes the shortcomings of interpersonal communication in the Internet age, where people live in the harsh scoring mechanism of others; The second episode of the fourth season shows the suffocating education of overprotective children... In just one episode, it shows the shortcomings of technology and the many aspects of human nature. What puts "Black Mirror" on the road to consecration is its visionary "prophecy", many of the stories in the play are seen in real life as if they are being staged, and some of these disturbing predictions have been fulfilled, and some are on the verge of experimentation.
Since Netflix took over the development and production of "Black Mirror" in 2017, and in order to conform to the operation model of streaming companies in the era of big data, the fourth season of "Black Mirror" is obviously more in line with the hi points of the current audience. However, the effect of the fifth season broadcast in 2019 was not satisfactory, coupled with the exhaustion of the creative team's own inspiration, the fifth season only received a score of 6.9 on Douban. Even if there are people like Miley Cyrus, Andrew S. Scott, Anthony S. The addition of "familiar faces" like McKay has not been able to save word of mouth. After four years of polishing, and the impact of the epidemic storm, the world has a new understanding of the relationship between technology and human beings, at this moment, Netflix launched the sixth season, and the creators' intention to replicate the glory of the first three seasons is self-evident.
The sixth season invited Salma Hayek, Aaron "Little Powder" Paul, Josh Hartnett, Kate S. Mara and many other stars participated, and they were full of highlights on the starlight. Before the broadcast, screenwriter Charlie Blue said in an interview that he once tried to get ChatGPT to create an episode of the script, "It seems like that at first glance, but it looks like a mess on closer inspection." Because what it does is mix together the outlines of all the episodes of Black Mirror without actually any real originality. However, dramatically, after the sixth season of "Black Mirror" was launched, it was criticized by many audiences as if the plot was automatically generated by artificial intelligence, which also formed the same sense of absurdity and irony outside the play as in the play.
The sixth season of "Black Mirror" is not so bad, with a rating of 7.2 at least much higher than the fifth season, and the stunning return of the first episode makes many people seem to find the surprise when they chased the first three seasons. The play also fiercely blackened Netflix, ordinary white-collar Joan accidentally found that the details of her life were stolen by the "Flowing Berry" company, adapted into a TV series "Joan Sucks", the exposure of privacy made Joan's life change dramatically, she lost her job and love and decided to take revenge on the "Flowing Berry Body", breaking the can and breaking, but did not expect that everyone could not help themselves.
Obviously, this is "Truman's World" in the era of streaming media, and the data thieves of the Internet are everywhere and have no privacy at all. The meta-universe, digital image, artificial intelligence, big data killing, algorithm recommendation, and the overlord clause of privacy agreements are all weapons that attack ordinary people, in addition to Joan, Salma who starred in the film. Hayek and Anne S. Murphy is also a victim and a slave to big data.
The stunning first episode kicked off, but the next four episodes are really not masterpieces, such as satirizing the atmosphere of "entertainment to death", criticizing the phenomenon of extracting the value of celebrities, discussing the ethics of artistic creation, and the mutual substitution of replicates... This somewhat outdated theme is still quoted by the "forward-looking" Black Mirror, which is really mediocre. The reversal is not surprising enough, and the reversal in order to create a reversal has even embarked on the road of "magic", which is not the effect that "Black Mirror", which is known for "science fiction", wants to achieve.
In this way, it seems that the show joining Netflix is not a wise move, losing the original short and concise connotation, and there is a suspicion of assembly line production. The sixth season of "Black Mirror", which is still qualified, wants to reproduce the scenery of the year and return to the original temperament, and needs to abandon the deliberate fawning of the current hot spots and pretending to be clever and show-off.
"Secret No. 9" is still relatively niche in China compared with "Black Mirror", and it has been updated to the eighth season from "Canned Sardines" in 2014. Regardless of the season, writer and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece S. The golden pair of Sher Smith can bring the most unexpected surprises in unexpected ways, and in just half an hour, the foreshadowing continues, shocking reversals, and finally unravels the mystery.
In the eighth season, from "the top floor of a double-decker bus in London" to a deserted lakeside cottage, from online dating to late-night summoning, all kinds of paradoxical stories about life and death appear. In a chilling, thrilling and killing atmosphere, with a unique story, full of black humor and heart-stopping horror, the audience can get an extraordinary sensory experience.
Now that the series has been filmed for the eighth season, the core of its success - reversal - is obviously no longer fresh, after all, there are so many reversal routines, the audience has long been aesthetically fatigued, and the taste has become tricky, even if each episode is a different type of story, but the narrative structure is still similar, which is difficult to bring people a huge surprise. So from the rating point of view, the reputation of the eighth season has dropped slightly, but among the many episodes that focus on reversal, the eighth season of "Secret No. 9" is definitely a superior work. Because in addition to the reversal, it also emphasizes the sophisticated script, exquisite details and humorous novel shooting form. Steve S. Pemberton and Reece S. Sher Smith seems to be able to see through the audience's mind, but does not set the plot in places that seem to be possible to reverse, and reveals the truth in unexpected places.
The first episode featured a Christmas special, St. The form of "Nicholas' Bones" was first met with the audience at the end of last year, which is a slightly scary story at first glance, but in fact tells a "time loop", which is full of fun.
The subsequent episodes began to be launched at the end of April this year, and the fifth episode was even more eye-catching, because at the time of the premiere, the TV station did not reveal the title of "Secret No. 9", but broadcast a variety show with prizes and answers, and released the plot poster of the "double-decker bus" version in advance, so that many local viewers thought that the broadcast plan had changed that day, and the "double-decker bus" would be broadcast next week. In fact, this is the subtlety of this play, and everyone made a big joke, packaging the story of "mother" imprisoned and researching super-powered "daughter" into a variety show, and all details were hidden in the dialogue and flowery words of the guests, and finally reversed.
I have to sigh the brain hole of the main creator, but also let people see the confidence in the follow-up of the "Secret No. 9" series, as long as the script story is polished well, the presentation is diverse, even if it is an expected reversal.
Edited and written by: Li Jing
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