I had a lot of work to do so decided to watch both episodes back-to-back.
Star Trek, unbridled TechBro arrogance, rapid and unchecked technological progress, meditations on ancient questions of consciousness, identity, and dynamics of power, gamer culture, very satisfying comeuppance for the baddies… all folded into a funny and whip-smart script, executed with fantastic production value and brought to life by phenomenal acting (Jimmi Simpson, Cristin Milioti, and Jesse Plemons especially).
What else could one want? I’d put these on my Top Ten Black Mirror episode list1 too. I hope they make a third but the second had a pretty conclusive and satisfying ending. Fantastic stuff.
And apparently hand the first episode four Emmys too…↩︎