how tv lies to you

[pwalpwal]

 

[Notes_Norton]

The last TV show I watched was Jay Leno's first “Tonight” show. And I had to go to my mother-in-law's to see it.

So they don't lie to me. I depend on the Internet for the lies.

 

[bitflipper]

Next you're gonna tell me that music production is similar fakery.

[Starship Krupa]

On 5/1/2025 at 6:16 AM, pwalpwal said:

 

Ha! When I saw the topic title I thought "Charlie Brooker."

I discovered Screenwipe and his other shows several months ago after falling in love with the Philomena Cunk shows on Netflix.

For anyone who likes that sort of thing, his shows are all available on YouTube.

Brooker is the evil genius behind Black Mirror. An excellent show that while it has done well, would have taken over the world had it not been for its unfortunate first episode, which probably cut its potential audience by about 50% due to people watching it and deciding that the show was not for them.

If the show had started with the second episode, the amazing "Fifteen Million Merits," Black Mirror might have its own movie, theme park, and game franchise by now. That episode pretty much made Daniel Kaluuya's career happen (and rightly so, he's unforgettable in it).

So when I recommend the show to people, I beg them not to watch the first episode, at least not until they've watched the second one. It's an anthology show, so it doesn't much matter what order you watch them in. As long as you skip the first one.

This season's first episode is an incisive commentary on a subject much discussed in our forum here. Given that Brooker started out writing reviews of video games, it's not surprising that he'd have something to say about a current trend in the software industry.

[Amberwolf]

6 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Black Mirror. An excellent show that while it has done well, would have taken over the world had it not been for its unfortunate first episode, which probably cut its potential audience by about 50% due to people watching it and deciding that the show was not for them.

I made it partway in to that episode, and did indeed leave and not come back to the show, as nothing about what I saw was watchable to me.   If the rest of the series is not like that one, I'll give it a shot with ep2.