I enjoyed the contrast between the Star Trek Discovery aesthetics of the main cast and the garish MMO player cosmetics of everyone else.

Easily the best episode of the seventh series.

I thought this one was cute. Peter Capaldi is a great actor and I love watching him and I enjoyed the nods to Charlie Brooker’s early career in games magazines. The degree to which the cop is personally offended by and furious at this weird old man who is, while scattered and rambling, rather co-operative and happy to admit to his crimes, was also very funny to me. I do think the premise ends up being surprisingly shallow, but I shouldn’t really be surprised about that from Black Mirror at this point.

Wish they had leaned more into the farce of it early on and then further into the horror when Dorothy gets erased. Feels like the weight of that gets lost with Brandy just going numb and trying to force her way through ending the movie.

I unfortunately had an inkling of the premise going in so didn’t get to experience the mystery, but the building tension of it was still fun and I love how it starts subtly and just becomes more clearly malicious as it goes on. The milk scene is great. Ending was fairly naff, though.

Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from an episode of Black Mirror about subscription service platform decay, though it doesn’t do it poorly.