Good idea lost in the noise

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Ok, since this epiosde is rated so high my expectations were also high - and I was dissapointed. Story with boy trying to flirt was interesting, nice plot twist. The whole cookie thing - scary, not really reasonable. Why can't they just use some intelligent robot to do this? Come on, it is not so hard to set up certain options and make it do regular stuff like a toast. Really? You need a special copy of consciousness to do this? Phones can do most of that these days, like waking you up with the music you like and making a plan for a day... Stupid idea. And it is legal? Seriously? You could at least make it illegal there, would make more sense. But there goes anther completely unreasonable option. You can block anyone you want and ruin their life just like that. And they can't even do anything about it. So I will block you because I don't like the way you look. I will block my teacher when I don't want to answer. I will block my neighbour because I don't like him, so I can listen to music really loud. Why not? A woman blocked a guy over nothing and left with their assumed child. He couldn't even go to court to report that he is the father and that he wants to have contact with his child. No rights man, because you are blocked. She blocked you and the child has you blocked too because she did. So I don't care about my husband anymore, I want to be with someone else, bye bye, he is blocked and the children have him blocked too. I don't care if they want it or not. Wow. The society really agreed to this? Really? The court doesn't care that you want to see your child? No cases? This idea was good but exxagerated. Nice concept that went terribly wrong and didn't make sense..

My favorite episode until now. Although perfection doesn´t exist, I could not find any fault in this one. There are several facts about human nature in this episode that are all hitting the spot. The end of the one that is leading the story may have been predictable but the direction is so good that the suspense is working until it is revealed.

Let me start this off by saying that I love "Black Mirror". All the previous episodes shone with great acting, real-feeling, mostly sympathizable characters and a vision that, while grim, still mostly seemed believable for a world where we haven't been paying close enough attention to the side effects of cutting-edge technology."White Christmas" though... well...It started out well enough. The "remote-assisted seduction" part felt real enough to make me cringe throughout the character's clumsy flirting. (In a good way!) And towards the end, of course, it became very thrilling indeed, assisted by intelligent use of the first-person view - although as a portrayal of schizophrenia it was already a bit lazy (and, some mental health advocates might argue, harmful).And after that, the storyline just started to fall into utter ridiculousness.The "cookie". Oh my. What a tragically, if not comically bad cliché portrayal of deep learning and artificial intelligence.The whole issue of "fully conscious copies of human beings are a commercial product, but no one seems to even consider it an open question if maybe they should have rights, even though you can literally see them suffer" aside, why on Earth would any sane, rational, profit-oriented company go through the (certainly enormous) R&D effort of creating this fully-fledged, fully conscious virtual copy of a human being only to have it resist (i.e. fail) when tasked with the most mundane "smart home" related functions, forcing you to literally torture them into submission? Why on Earth would you not just use deep learning to train the functional parts of the AI (i.e. the parts that decide how dark the customer likes her toast and how warm she likes the floor heating) and implement it into an emotionless, unconscious management software that simply does its job?It makes no sense. Absolutely none. It's just a cheap cliché for people who don't understand how deep learning works and who think "neural network" = brain = full human consciousness. And it makes that misunderstanding worse.Then there's the characters and their "development". Especially the female characters seem like they are just shallow vehicles to demonstrate how the most impulsive and heartless person imaginable would use the "block" function. Living together, happily married with a small child? Doesn't matter, you'll get blocked before the first big argument is even over. Really?And the ending... I mean, hey, nice "plot twist" there. If only it didn't, once again, lead to even more ridiculousness, with the "hero" being granted the very lenient sentence of total social isolation for the rest of his life. Which is, I think most people would agree, orders of magnitude worse than even a lifelong prison sentence.I don't know what they were thinking with this one. Shallow characters, bonkers misrepresentation of technology, and a half-baked and incongruent story. How this is the highest-rated episode of "Black Mirror" is beyond me. There are much, much, much, much better ones.

That was awesome. How everything ended was great. The main idea and how to deliver the concept of memory copy was good. I liked John Hamm. I kept thinking about if we took a copy of mind and made it do nothing for some time just to obey the orders in future. Black mirror is one of the best shows I ever watched.