A lot of people going on in their reviews about how this episode is about phones/social media 'taking over our lives,' which makes me feel like they've missed the point.
The point is that we've invested an hour, as viewers, into watching this dramatic situation unfold. Someone's life at the end has been horribly ended - it really doesn't matter which character. It's world breaking news.
And yet this tragedy, for most everyone of the 7 billion of us roaming the Earth, gets boiled down to nothing more than a 3 second glance at a screen.
All those people at the end get their little device alerts, and look down at their phone briefly, and then dismiss it and never think about it again.
That's the point. That our lives are little more to each other than a blip on a screen, and then forgotten. That we've substituted real human connections, actually caring about one another, with a blipping notification.
Much like several other "Black Mirror" episodes, it's the button presented in those last moments in the credits that really sew up the point.
The point is that we've invested an hour, as viewers, into watching this dramatic situation unfold. Someone's life at the end has been horribly ended - it really doesn't matter which character. It's world breaking news.
And yet this tragedy, for most everyone of the 7 billion of us roaming the Earth, gets boiled down to nothing more than a 3 second glance at a screen.
All those people at the end get their little device alerts, and look down at their phone briefly, and then dismiss it and never think about it again.
That's the point. That our lives are little more to each other than a blip on a screen, and then forgotten. That we've substituted real human connections, actually caring about one another, with a blipping notification.
Much like several other "Black Mirror" episodes, it's the button presented in those last moments in the credits that really sew up the point.