Well, I have to admit I was already biased here before I even started watching this episode. I don't like Sci-Fi and especially space settings, so that's why it took me more than three months to get started with this season. And I have to say I didn't really like this episode. It seems like I'm in the minority with that though. - First of all the plot/idea felt too similar to other ideas we already had - Being trapped in a game/virtual reality is just not original at this point. - Then I was a bit thrown off by seeing so many actors I know - I was constantly thinking about Westworld and Breaking Bad. I only knew one actor from the previous three seasons and I really liked they used more unknown actors. - I was also weirdly thrown off by the references to old Black Mirror episodes. It felt a bit too much "in your face" to me. - I didn't like the female lead. At first she seemed interesting, but as soon as she joined the game I found her rather annoying. Bonus shoutout to the line "Stealing my pussy is a fucking red line" which made me cringe so badly that I had to take a deep breath and already knew I won't be able to like this episode. - Actually the whole writing seemed bad. There were one or two good jokes, but the rest seemed so weirdly... cheesy and predictable. - The ending was so unspectacular. If I recall correctly the happiest ending we had so far was San Junipero which was a "bittersweet ending" because both old women died, but they could stay together in San Junipero forever. This just seemed like a happy ending where the bad guy has to stay forever in his own cruel world and all of the other characters can escape. - Speaking of the bad guy - I still don't understand what even happened at the end - Why did he have to fly with a random ship through the asteroids and we had such a lame chase? He was supposed to be in control of everything. He teleported everyone around before and changed their appearances and stuff. Why was he unable to do anything when they flew away with the ship? Why couldn't he stop the whole program and think about a plan, teleport to them or just straight out delete them?
Review by HaibaraBlockedParent2018-04-12T12:36:02Z
Well, I have to admit I was already biased here before I even started watching this episode. I don't like Sci-Fi and especially space settings, so that's why it took me more than three months to get started with this season. And I have to say I didn't really like this episode. It seems like I'm in the minority with that though.
- First of all the plot/idea felt too similar to other ideas we already had - Being trapped in a game/virtual reality is just not original at this point.
- Then I was a bit thrown off by seeing so many actors I know - I was constantly thinking about Westworld and Breaking Bad. I only knew one actor from the previous three seasons and I really liked they used more unknown actors.
- I was also weirdly thrown off by the references to old Black Mirror episodes. It felt a bit too much "in your face" to me.
- I didn't like the female lead. At first she seemed interesting, but as soon as she joined the game I found her rather annoying. Bonus shoutout to the line "Stealing my pussy is a fucking red line" which made me cringe so badly that I had to take a deep breath and already knew I won't be able to like this episode.
- Actually the whole writing seemed bad. There were one or two good jokes, but the rest seemed so weirdly... cheesy and predictable.
- The ending was so unspectacular. If I recall correctly the happiest ending we had so far was San Junipero which was a "bittersweet ending" because both old women died, but they could stay together in San Junipero forever. This just seemed like a happy ending where the bad guy has to stay forever in his own cruel world and all of the other characters can escape.
- Speaking of the bad guy - I still don't understand what even happened at the end - Why did he have to fly with a random ship through the asteroids and we had such a lame chase? He was supposed to be in control of everything. He teleported everyone around before and changed their appearances and stuff. Why was he unable to do anything when they flew away with the ship? Why couldn't he stop the whole program and think about a plan, teleport to them or just straight out delete them?
All in all I'm just disappointed by this episode.