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I’ve greatly enjoyed and lived for the Sith and the Disney Villains since the age of four, high school added the strong love for the Universal Monsters of old. Thirty years now of just living for villainy makes a man not begrudge your statement, Jess, how you say you enjoy a season of Black Mirror. It does seem like the quality of this season is consistently good. Evidence of this is I would at present rank this one last of the ones I’ve seen of this season, and it still is very good. Mind you, at present I’ve gotten to the episode after this one. I have the other two (and the previous one so I’m not lost) to get to. Need to be ready to sob during the one given what people are telling me, which considering who’s in the episode, I believe them. A somber slow burn leading into a bittersweet ending is a fair description for this one. You mention the lack of shock value, which may or may not put it at the lower end of my ranking. But again, the episode is great. The set up is one where you take it in, and say, “...Essentially the holodeck by way of deepfake?” Figured you’d jump on the lack of basic prep work and/or simple research. You say that you were triggered and plucked by that, I’d probably be in the same boat. There are the triggering aspects given past acting experience on my end. You liken it to acting on stage. Even with stage experience of my own, even one time where I was onstage the whole time, you prep someone for this shit. We would be most interested as to what was on that flashdrive. Emma Corrin emerges as the big star of this. Still discovering Emma and their work. What I’ve seen of them has had my curiosity. But now seeing Emma in this, now they have my attention. Seriously, they brought it, both when Clara is going through the motions of the plot, when the plot deviates, and especially when Clara gains the greater sentience. Culminating in the scene where she experiences the void where all the data is linked, interlinked, within cells interlinked. Leads to the reveal that I deduced, that Dorothy was a closeted gay woman. And how even with being in the closet, the speculation swirled, and you see that the poison pen of those such as Hedda Hopper pushed her to her suicide. Which, as you observe, the rhetoric of then has echoed today, in some ways far more vitriolic, and yeah, it breaks our hearts. Same thing of those of our friends and family being members of the LGBTQ+ community, and how the plotline here does just get you in the heart like it did for you. Adored that part of your reaction, Jess, and I adored everything you had to say after the episode. They really get you during the romantic Clair de lune montage. Leads to the new film having the far more tragic ending. Bittersweet ending though it was for the episode, it was still a much more cheerful ending than I anticipated, especially by Black Mirror’s usual standards, like you said. On the other hand, they do close on the line of having “all the time in the world.”, that gave me palpitations, and I said, “Don’t say that line, you’ll trigger the Bond fans.” In terms of supporting cast, we differ some on who we were more excited about. You had the strong reaction to Awkwafina, who is great. And I flipped my lid, seeing the legendary Harriet Walter, goddamn it is she a scene stealer in this. Other notes of interest: Adore how they have the pitch perfect recreation of the golden age movie trailers. I equally adore how you observed the detail yourself, all with such a delightful smile on your face. The trailer on youtube having over one point two million views and only two hundred and thirty-one comments is depressing as shit though. Likewise, interesting how for the newer presentation how they alter the aspect ratio to the more common for today widescreen compared to the academy ratio which was the norm back in the day. We are also simpatico of loving lots of older classic films. Some days I just tend to have Turner Classic Movies on the tv all day and night. Going back to the lack of prepwork thing, I got distracted about that with the blu-ray that she got sent. One, it looked like a lawyer friendly Warner Archive blu-ray, which given the type of film, makes sense. The distraction came from they sent her something that I don’t think she could play at at home. Labeling on the blu-ray indicates a region two blu-ray. Would hope that either it is in fact region free, or she has a region free player. Unless she is living in England, and I just missed that piece of information. I also share Brandy’s one dream of getting to do your own timeless romance film along the likes of Casablanca or Brief Encounter. And I share her annoyance that her agent is unfamiliar with the latter film. Most people these days are it seems, which is rotten as Brief Encounter is a really damn good movie. Jesus Christ is Celia Johnson so goddamn good in that. You should see it if you get a chance, Jess. Apologies about Bonbon, by the way. Just a lovely reaction, Jess, thank you.