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TV commentary:

Black Mirror- Heh, I've always found Kelly Macdonald's accent sexy! But weird, the Waif looks totally different with long hair! Though to be fair, I've only seen her on Doctor Who and Game of Thrones, where she had the same hairstyle. But yeah, without someone pointing it out, I never would've recognized her until the end. Though thinking about it now, was she wearing a wig in the beginning then? Because at the end she's back to the hairstyle I'm used to, and it would be weird to have them just have her grow it out for the start. And there did seem to be something off with her hairstyle, it being a wig may explain why it did.

In any case, I will say its my second favorite ep of the season (after San Junipero, of course). Its funny, because I think these two eps felt like they were from a different show (San Junipero was more love story, this seemed more crime procedural). ( spoiler cut )

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TV commentary:

Black Mirror- Okay, having finally seen all of this seasons eps, I want to say "San Junipero" is my favorite episode, while "Hated in the Nation" is the highest quality ep, though to be fair, with an extra half hour, I feel they spent a lot more time on the ep, so it should be better than the rest of the season.

As for the rest, I think I'd rank them:

3) Shut Up and Dance- This seemed to be the most "feasible" of this season's eps (prolly of the series), and it had an interesting twist.

4) Nosedive: Interesting story, but as I said in my recap, a bit too long. We didn't need to see Lacie "nosedive" as much as we did, we would've gotten the point with less humiliation for her. Points though for managing to throw Alice Eve in a bikini into the story.

5) Men Against Fire: You'd think being a military-oriented ep I'd rank this higher. Particularly with Raiman being a cute little psychopath. But as I said, this story had been done before, I knew exactly what it was about before even watching it.

6) Playtest: Its always nice to see Dutch from Killjoys in random other stuff looking all hot. But yeah, while it had some cool tech in it, I just could not empathize with the protagonist. And he kinda brought what happened on himself.