The Reel Rejects - BLACK MIRROR Season 6: "Demon 79" Breakdown & REVIEW!! | 6x5 | Netflix 2023

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Starting point is 00:01:23 I don't hear anyone really talk about that episode, but I loved it. I don't hear anyone really talk about that episode, but I loved it. I think that was my favorite one. I don't think. I know for sure. That's 100% my favorite one. That has the least significant to do with technology. Yeah, what is there?

Starting point is 00:01:37 There's a receipt machine that they used to track or link to that one guy. It just went completely supernatural with that one. Yeah. Or the technology of nuclear war and all that, which is a technological advancement. Sure. But it's a cool, all the history take. That was fun. That was great.

Starting point is 00:01:57 I loved it. I loved it so much. I love such a simple premise that is all about the nuance and the relationships. And finding this optimistic ending at the end of her because it's like the whole world gets doomed.

Starting point is 00:02:14 But I'm so aware we're living in an alternate reality with this show that I'm like, yeah, I'm down. Burn the world. Don't care. Burn it all down. I just want to see Herbie happy.

Starting point is 00:02:24 Yeah. And then at the end, they get it. And they have... incredible chemistry those two just the perform and they both get an arc i could not believe what i was watching that was so well done yeah i could give a shit if people don't like it that was awesome no that was that was that was really awesome but some awesome style was flourishes throughout 45 second opinion done john yeah no i love the way this snake through tones and really just relished in the question mark of its whole central premise like you know you start out with what clearly feels like

Starting point is 00:03:02 okay we're homageing some kind of paranoid 70s satanic movie but i thought there subversions to and twists on that tone worked nicely to establish something that embodied both the twisted humor and the foreboding you know doomishness that black mirror can often come with but in a totally other way and yeah like to have this central relationship that starts out in such a you know with such you know opposition and tension that then you know goes through all these shifts and power changes until the point where they're finally both at the end and resigned and and it becomes this sort of twisted little love story yeah it was was beautiful and and like you know this season has been in some ways more fantastical thus far but uh i like

Starting point is 00:03:53 what they've been doing with those fantastical elements and yeah something like this i think plays nicely because it's something you'll hear echoed like oh you know this person who killed such and such amount of people like was convinced of you know some kind of apocalypse scenario or some you know message from a higher or lower power and yeah i thought their their trade from her living in the oblivions of life to them living together in the oblivions of the afterlife like eternal damnation but also like you know getting off kind of easy away from the rest of the world yeah so it was like so sweet while also being really harsh and nasty and and you know stomach churning at points the way again i think black mirror does um and too i think you know while it's

Starting point is 00:04:41 while they're not necessarily always leading with like you know the commentary this season i still think that there are like this episode has a lot of nice and and interesting and harsh of you know just the political spectrum circa you know the 70s and the Cold War and things like that but also things that are certainly relevant to the here and now like as much as it feels removed from now and also doesn't you know no I don't think it feels I don't think feels removed at all and especially with what the the person running for mayor was his whole diabolical plan and his big end game going down the road they spliced it with footage that looked modern day and then footage that looked futuristic at the same time of what the kind of political wars they would ultimately land into due to this one guy and that once he once he lived I was like okay this is God they did have they did have me fooled for a hot minute it was when the clock turned midnight and then nothing happened happened, which is going to bum me out. I wanted it to be real. I wanted everything to end. I wanted the world to incinerate. Yeah. So when it did come around to that, I was relieved, but I had an inkling that because he lived, I was like, okay. Yeah, this has to be, this has to be real. But I do like that it plays on the whole thing of, like a Joker or even, what was that Scientology, Rift movie that Paul Thomas Anderson did? No, the master. Yeah. I kind of like the master. master both walking phoenix performances but also a bit of like henry portrait of a serial killer this innocent timid but not henry portrait of serial killers not that but the art type of a innocent timid character who arcs into embracing her own inner demons and then finds confidence within herself by the end of the journey uh i think is it was a great character art that i found very believable and every little moment of her seemed like you knew where the trajectory of her performance was headed it could have gone down a path or she just becomes completely sadistic and just really wants to kill and becomes a badass becomes a badass or becomes very diabolical it could have gone down a whole number of paths that went to a further extreme but they managed to even though she murdered they managed to maintain her humanity and a moral compass within that while letting that darkness also live on the surface as well

Starting point is 00:07:26 so they kept it in this complex gray area that I was really impressed by what they landed her with because I thought they might have they might have landed her on a much darker spot because I liked how she was even pushing away Gap Gop Gop Gop I think Gop I like how she kept pushing Gop away as she wanted to murder this guy he even had to be on his own and he was even feeling rejected and I loved his performance of how he was just a new guy in this demon world and was just trying to prove himself so he had it like this charming affable quality to him who tried to oversimplify things and didn't oh didn't push his desperation to get this done too much like he just tried keeping it lighthearted the whole time it was refreshing because it was it kind of dynamic i feel like i've seen in other b movie horror films not exactly you know

Starting point is 00:08:27 specific one to one but normally they would go for a little bit more of a dread heavy and make that guy a lot more serious and stoic and maybe just like sinisterly charming and they didn't do any of that they flipped everything on its head yeah and they even had this i never really thought about it because I the first time I ever really understood that there was a large Indian population

Starting point is 00:08:56 in Britain was when we saw Bennett like Beckham so I wasn't really attuned to anything historical or present at all going on breaking out. I was like fucking like 10 or 11 or something

Starting point is 00:09:11 movie came out so I didn't really know anything and that was when I first came attuned to it And I didn't ever really factor in what the racism experience and oppression must have felt like for them. And so they had all these neat ingredients in this little boiling pot recipe to make you go. There's a lot of justifications of how she could have just got to push to a breaking point. And it's blaming on them. They even set up this little tease about my, they thought my mom was crazy, but I'm actually crazy.

Starting point is 00:09:42 It was smart. It was really, really smart. I think even though they don't leave with commentary more most of the time they still leave with the character and they did an excellent job here and uses aesthetic and backdrop of 70s horror exploitation ish vibes I thought it was just going to be gimmicky at the beginning and then it made me forget about all that the second the demon speaks for the first time I was like okay like you know you're you're either going to lose me or not and and i think you know it's i think something like that you know you think of demons as one thing and so the easy undercut is to have him you know talk cockney and you know like anybody else but i thought that they actually managed to like i love the tunes of his performance because he really towed a nicely sort of murky line between charm and manipulation and that i think fuels so much of the the question

Starting point is 00:10:44 Mark, again, of, you know, is this real? Is this not real? Is he just trying to egg her on to, you know, corrupt her spirit and all that talk about he needed to be a corruptible person, not beyond corruption and not already completely corrupted? And touching on things that are sort of latent, you know, it's like she has those fantasies about, you know, bashing her co-workers head in or the, you know, the, you know, manager of their shoe department or whatever. And, you know, acknowledging that that that. exists within and yeah going so far as to find where it fits almost within her personality or how she might look if she embraced it without yeah just going full on absurd like just like the fantasy you know like violent rage and then doing like gore for the sake of gore like i thought this episode managed to have like the the kind of shocking thrills and the sort of grindhouse flourishes that you would like but also it never got lost in just having too much fun with those things and like yeah that whole bit between the politician

Starting point is 00:11:48 and the other girl you know the crappy you know super mean shoe sales girl or whatever like that whole thing where he's just explaining to her that like yeah like the system only works in this one particular way sort of

Starting point is 00:12:04 and I'm going to take those values and I'm going to snake them my way into you know my best chance of actually winning of gaming the system and I just thought it was funny that they made so much out of that character and whether or not you could take him out and kill him. And I love that that morality play turns into like a true sort of inversion because yeah, it's like she could just kill her coworker. She could just kill the manager. But, you know, like, it's like, how can I take

Starting point is 00:12:31 this curse and make it as like effective in a positive way as I can or at least use it to remove that much more suffering? Like, how can I make this Charlie problem work for me? And I thought that was a great scene because it is like something that you could easily kind of lose to the strangeness of the moment but uh but yeah then it's like you have this actual demon this guy who's actually in a very physical way towing that murky line of charm and manipulation but in like an overtly evil way whereas like yeah the the demon it does kind of pose like a fun sort of question mark as well about yeah who's the lesser of the evil here and whatnot um but yeah yeah just like their interactions back and forth and the the changing of

Starting point is 00:13:20 their dynamic just every beat was so lovely and uh yeah their their harmony and watching as they trade kind of in who's doing more of the talking and like having more of the confidence is just so gradual and nicely handled yeah and i love the cop too uh the cop was very sympathetic, empathetic, and you can feel this, you feel the experience in the most simplistic terms, I would say. You can feel this, the horrors this guy has witnessed, and obviously he's the one of the few who's not racist in the characters that we follow. And I love the nuance to his performance of the yeah he's got to catch the killer but there's this part of him that can understand even without knowing much he can connect with her in a and an unspoken manner

Starting point is 00:14:19 just find bits of information and conclude a possible history as to why this person is the way they are and what might even lead this person to do what they do in the way I was very effective And he starts off as like a guy who doesn't really give a shit to an individual who gives the motions. And I thought that was, I thought that was really well executed. I think they inhabited this world really well. I think each, each episode here presented a fervent eye to it all. There was a lot of passion on display from beginning to end. the one that had the most just fun

Starting point is 00:15:01 like streamberry while I think is the most talked about one um it's the most on the nose that's actually my least favorite of them the first one was actually my least favorite of them all um and then I would probably go with beyond the sea I would go I would say that in order for favorites I would go this one beyond the sea

Starting point is 00:15:24 lock henry yeah amazing day Maisie Day. And then Joan is awful. And then Joan is awful. Yeah, that would be my ranking, my personal ranking of them all. I think that these, I thought that was a great season. And each episode left, truly left an impression on me.

Starting point is 00:15:43 Yeah. And I think just looking at the whole thing, even though it's an anthology, I thought the different lengths, I thought each episode was proportioned well unto itself. And a lot of people have slagged off Maisie Day, especially for being like, short and like the least deep but even that one I thought like nicely inhabited what it was supposed to be and for a season like this with a couple feature length episodes I'm like yeah do one lean and mean do one that's like an actual you know dramatic feature and then yeah do something like this that is like both fun and filled with abandon but also you know focused and graceful in surprising and unexpected ways and yeah like for a season again that seems like it's wanted to change some things or at least try some new flavors out I thought that was a successful experiment kind of across the board. And I thought that a lot of the principles I have

Starting point is 00:16:33 kind of just been taking from these changes have been sort of well embodied by this episode across the board in particular. Well, guys, what did you think about Black Mirror? What would be your favorite of the five? Leave your thoughts down below. Be sure to subscribe. Leave a like. Thank you for everyone who joined us on this

Starting point is 00:16:51 journey. But before we go, let's send this with a Patreon. I think you would make a good demon, and I would listen to all of your input and advices. And, you know, I like to think that I'm a relatively, you know, morally inclined person. But if anybody could corrupt me, I imagine that it would be you. All right. You're persuasive.

Starting point is 00:17:15 You're friendly. But who knows what you could be thinking and what you could be latently influencing me to do. And I liked, you know, not to have too much culpability for my own circumstances. and decisions. So if I can just pawn all that stuff onto you, and I know you'll have my back, you know, if I'm ever caught or anything like that. So I think this could be the start of a beautiful friendship, beautiful working relationship. So, yeah, I'm just putting that out into the universe. Take some of my blood. And let's make a pact that, you know, you'll stay, that'll be the thing. He's like, you'll stay pledged, but for your pledge money, I'll sacrifice anybody you

Starting point is 00:17:52 want. And that's a fact. Jack, you can take that to the bank. We love you, my year and stay well. We'll talk soon. Pieces.

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The Reel Rejects - BLACK MIRROR Season 6: "Demon 79" Breakdown & REVIEW!! | 6x5 | Netflix 2023

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