Yes, it may not be your average Black Mirror story line, as the story starts in a clearly post apocalyptic world, and devoid of any sort of context, you follow 3 scavengers searching for supplies, bateries and medicines are mentioned, but in this particular case they are actually searching for a particular crate, they have the serial number and the crates location. A wharehouse, they are clearly terrified before entering the wharehouse, and soon we find out why. Killer drones, probably at some point programmed to protect these wharehouses, as watch dogs, it is clear that some where along the line something went wrong and they started killing humans. Now it is basically a race for survival, as 2 of the characters get killed almost instantly, and we are left with Bella, the main character and her struggle for survival. The fear is genuine, but Bella is as resorceful as they come, and all of her choices unlike in most survival horror shows, seem to always be optimal, as for the machines, they dont seem to have many week spots, but some you can explore them, like the fact that they run on solar power. Bella seems to know this as well, and uses it against the machine early on, to escape from a tree where the dog was keeping her captive during the night. Later on, we find out Bella was looking for a specific replacement part of sorts, for what? We are never told, we just know it might have been really important, important enough for them to risk their lives for. We also figure out that there may be a community of sorts where other humans including maybe Bellas family live in, while trying to survive in this world. The dogs seem to be linked to each other, and even though Bella manages to kill or lets say terminate the one pursuing her, just before its death he manages to send a location distress call to rest of the machines in the vicinity, and Bella knows her destiny is settled. Abandoning all hopes of making out alive, as if already antecipating what is about to happen, she makes one last atempt at communications mainly to say her goodbyes. And the episode ends.
What made this so awesome for me to watch, besides the constant tension and amazing visuals, and despite the fact that there isnt much of a story line, is on one hand, the infinite possibilities the viewe has to make up is own story of what might have led to this, and on the other hand, Bella, her survival skills and decision making are second to none, even though in the end she probably doesnt make it, because let us consider this, she barely made it against one already crippled machine, that had lost is main weapon in the car crush, against multiple fully functional machines she wouldnt stand a chance. Regardless, the story puts many of todays scifi blockbusters in the trash, never once has anything felt out of place or boring, it was perfectly paced, you are not told much, but you are told enough to allow you to make your own context of the whole thing, and it is in my opinion one of the best, if not, the best black mirror episode to date.
What made this so awesome for me to watch, besides the constant tension and amazing visuals, and despite the fact that there isnt much of a story line, is on one hand, the infinite possibilities the viewe has to make up is own story of what might have led to this, and on the other hand, Bella, her survival skills and decision making are second to none, even though in the end she probably doesnt make it, because let us consider this, she barely made it against one already crippled machine, that had lost is main weapon in the car crush, against multiple fully functional machines she wouldnt stand a chance. Regardless, the story puts many of todays scifi blockbusters in the trash, never once has anything felt out of place or boring, it was perfectly paced, you are not told much, but you are told enough to allow you to make your own context of the whole thing, and it is in my opinion one of the best, if not, the best black mirror episode to date.
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