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It's kinda lib-brained "technology bad" stuff. The Episode where their stand-in for David Cameron fucked a pig was pretty funny though.
Great episode. Also, made better by the fact that David Cameron did actually fuck a pig.
My favorite episode of that show is “Shut Up and Dance”. I can’t remember why. I think a teen kills a pedophile? And then it turns out that teen is also a pedo?
The second best episode is “Striking Vipers” purely because of how uncomfortable it made redditors. In that episode there are these two guys who are best friends. They’re both married, in heterosexual relationships. A new kind of VR comes out, a sort of “project your consciousness into a digital world so everything feels real.” They start playing fighting games. One plays a man, one plays a woman. Eventually they start having sex in the game. They’re in love. Their spouses find out. If I remember right they try to bring their relationship into the real world and it doesn’t work. Eventually they work out a thing where they only have sex in VR occasionally and are otherwise devoted to their marriages.
Redditors freaked out that their favorite evil phone show forced them to confront uncomfortable questions about identity and sexuality.
It's anti-capitalist in the way that a lot of lib media is, purely by accident as a result of criticizing things without trying to understand the underlying causes of them.
Seems like half the episodes are "What we treat true Artificial Intelligence really poorly?"
And the other half are "What if being on your phone all the time is bad actually?"
Ten Million Credits or whatever it was called was good though.
And props to the Waldo episode for predicting irreverent internet cartoon characters (Pepe) being assimilated into fascist iconography.
I didn't watch past the second season, but I remember the second episode being solid. The basic premise isn't anything you haven't seen from sci-fi before, but the 'twist' at the end where capital co-opts and thereby disarms nascent revolutionaries isn't a topic I see very often. Also it stars Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out, and he's just great. I wouldn't have evened guessed he's a limey!
Not explicitly, but some of the episodes can be very easily analysed though a leftist lens imo
It comes close, but I think the waldo episode clarifies that the show is arguing for a sort of analog liberalism. The part of the episode where there was a British politician remarking that as bad as the current system was, it "built these roads" is the closest the show got to just stating its thesis outright.
It is rad-lib. So, a handful of points are progressive and surface level anti-capitalist. But there are no deeper critiques than "doesn't it suck to be poor and have to do what it takes to earn a living" or "doesn't it suck that it is necessary and inescapable that all relationships have to be commodified, and tech accelerated this" etc.
the one where all the soldiers have VR implants that make them see the “undesirables” as literal monsters.
which one was that?
