The Reel Rejects - BLACK MIRROR Season 6: "Loch Henry" Breakdown & Review | 6x2 | Netflix 2023

Episode Date: June 17, 2023

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Listeners of the Reject Nation, welcome to season six, episode two, Loc Henry of Black Mirror. We are going to watch it right now. You can see the highlights over on YouTube, or if you want to sync up with your own copy and enjoy the full experience, that's over at our Patreon, patreon.com slash the real rejects. But if you're just here for the audio, we're going to jump forward in time to right after we've seen it

and start breaking it down. So, you know, if you were implying that you've already seen it, spoilers are ahead you've been warned let's jump into the show Greg identify yourself I am Greg oh it's good and you sound soft yeah let's cuddle let's do it wowie this is what happens when you want to become a filmmaker you'll do anything for the story

terrible things all around wowie that was a thick boy that was awesome that was pretty good that was awesome that was the black mirror I sort of missed yeah wasn't like super technologically heavy like but there's still a commentary about our obsession with true time and uncovering the secrets it was fun yeah that was fun especially with um like Netflix so this is the most like Netflix aware season yeah so far two episodes in it's like it's like literally

Netflix is holding a black mirror to itself yeah it's really it's really interesting what they're doing here to be tethered by the streamberry element and now I'm like are all these gonna be from streamberry because that's neat it is and also streamberry is

different from Netflix in this universe which adds a layer of strangeness but they've got the tech dumb but it's the same same, but they name check Netflix in this episode, which just further, like it is, but it's also like calling attention to its artifice.

It's so strange. And, I mean, you're saying, Stuart name check. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, too, I mean, yeah, this is one of those things where I'm like, geez, I mean, how many of your producers on some of your own true crime shows

have said things like these and put people in Davis McArdle's position? I mean, not that I guess, you know, you have quite an extreme set of circumstances but still yeah i mean this this definitely had that like you know gut twisting sort of punch that i associate with black mirror like i like the first episode and it certainly had that like edge to it but it is like a bouncy or happier sort of resolve whereas this yeah is like the spiral opens up and then it just goes steadily down into the abyss

from there it was like a wound this davis guy did not want to to open and then sure enough has he climbed further down into that hole and like the i love the tragic irony at the end of everything happened that you would expect to happen the tourists came in the glorification of the masks as well um people wanted experience the true crime stuff and like maybe go to the house and all that this documentary becoming huge but at what costs you know your entire soul and and what's left of your your whole life like yeah that's great he was eight when this all happen so it's like its whole life has now been out and turned inside out and then to pose that question of what's the hook i think because it's black mirror you trust that there's something that's

going to happen right like there's some other thing that's good because i was enjoying like i was really really enjoying it um from beginning to end i thought the acting was like supreme supreme acting here from everyone everyone and the amount of great misleads that they did with the father and the mother I'm not talking about Kenny I'm talking about the guy from the mummy and the last of us opening you know his name you just you name checked him the second he showed up John oh oh John sorry John Hannah yeah yeah sorry John Hannah he's only in that like one prolog so I was like wait last of us yeah yeah okay mummy but mummy yeah I thought you were...

It's so kind of hung up on the last of us. The mummy. All I could see in my mind is from the mummy. Well, that was the thing is all I could see in my minds. I was the main guy and I was like, no, wait, I don't know his name. But then, yeah. Then I was like, oh, the one guy in this episode I recognized. It took me a second to get back to it.

Whatever. So, with John Hanna and the mom, because the fliparoo there where you're like, John Hanna is involved in it in some way. Yeah. And the mom is. victim in this and then they have like fascinating choices that happen where the mom decides to be on camera and her motive seems to expose to get retribution for what happened to the dad yeah and it makes sense why she would feel that way yeah it's really really smart it's really clever because

what they did give us was a story about like it did it on so many levels about like a story about making the true crime documentary some of the artifice and to make in a true crime documentary um the depths you will go to and is this worth making you know yeah especially with you know a day and age where we love true crime like we love it so much and we love dramatizations of true crime serial killers like netflix just had domer which was a massive show and and followed by tons of conversations about how it portrays the lives of the victims and all sorts of and i love a lot of their i love a lot of like netflix's true crime series think they're very very engaging needless to say but there is always that

icky part of me that's going I mean a lot of times you can feel in a true crime documentary like the the purpose of telling I mean a lot of times it's just like fun to watch yeah as a viewer a lot of times I'm just like this is just fun yeah it's a geek show yeah you want to see the dirty details and the horrific you know things that you couldn't believe otherwise yeah I thought that the way they handled like as they did so much in here as a commentary, but they kept it very character-driven from beginning to end in a way that was filled with surprises. And you just kept feeling like there's something else coming, but I don't know what, but just the journey of making the film. Like they,

they made one of those shows, it was one of those episodes or like one of those movies were just like the fun of making a film at the same time. Like there was that sense of wonder of putting together this, this documentary that could be pivotal. And so I thought that was exciting and they sold it so much to the point where I was like this footage looks so real like yeah is this based on a true story that we don't know about it you know I like I really had to question it um so on a technical side too I thought they just really did an excellent job yeah and even like the choice with the mom coming around at the end I thought was uniquely done you know because she's still I loved her performance because as a psychotic of a woman that she is she also has so much love

her. Yes. She absolutely loves her son and her family. And mourns the dad. Yeah. And looked upon those Polaroids with nostalgia. And like, oh, the good old days. I miss those times. And almost as if when she died, it was like, I'll be reunited. Yeah. There's nothing left for me here. There's nothing of my old life. Let me descend to hell and be with my baby and torture and torture forever. It's like she died when he died. like blames is a really is a really mind it's a mind bender of it and um but yeah like

it's cool yeah i'm just how more used to black mirror being like a more of a like a crazy technological thing of a jig yeah and it's not really about that but it is a commentary on our association with media yeah i've only really seen one kind of qualifying quote regards to this season from Charlie Brooker, and he did kind of express a wish to expand or just kind of, instead of coming up with like, ah, what does a black mirror episode need to have? Just kind of redefining what that is.

And I think here there is a roundabout technological quality in the sense of like, yes, you have the old camcorder and stuff rooting you to a time in place, you have a drone and whatever. But you also have physical media lasting as an archive in a time where there's so much newfound. debate about media that doesn't become physical at all and that can be kind of hyper-controlled due to digitization and stuff like that. And so even though that's not the point, like, yeah, like it seems like the main thing

it's trying to address is still like a societal phenomenon heavily tied to technology. So it is, yeah, much more roundabout, but I do think of all the topics for Black Mirror to take on if it's going to drift from tech specifically. I think this does make a lot of sense because two, I mean, there's so much true crime that centers around that idea of like, oh, it was, you know, the happy, you know, all appearances, you know, very, you know, kind of above board couple, you know, just sort of your quaint little couple that had this really grim, dark secret. And so I like the way it juxtaposed, starting it out with this Ian Adair figure. And the more you hear about him, you're just like, oh, yeah, of course this guy is deranged. and capable of all this stuff and yeah like there's there's something about you know

the ethics of making these true crime documentaries is obviously on display in this episode and there are times where I would imagine that these endeavors have gotten it wrong and perhaps incriminated the wrong people or bolstered the stories of you know people who were

secretly involved and managed to conceal that or whatever Yeah, I thought this spun an interesting picture because it is partly about them being exploitative, but also, like, them being exploitative and pursuing this project does ultimately uncover this greater truth. And then that kind of took me out of the time and place and more toward the now moment where, like, this guy is a cop and she is, you know, like a well-meaning lady who lives in the country. These are the kinds of people that you just assume are going to be well-adjusted or you would assume would never be involved in something like that. And I think now especially, you know, we're finding that, you know, a lot of the people on the higher rungs of the societal ladder and who do appear very, you know, just sort of, again, aboveboard, quaint and et cetera, might be actually pretty depraved underneath. Yeah. It's interesting.

So many influencers. Sure. That's where it all comes back to so many torture dungeons. But yeah, the acting was great, too. I can't get the acting like the acting was really sold me it felt like I was watching a Scottish film yeah everybody was really just like so natural like great at listening and and two like even though we were sitting there yelling

like you know go upstairs or just like play it chill like every little turn felt I could feel the authenticity of each choice even if I didn't always like agree with the action or something like that yeah I mean I don't really i think it's easy to be here and be logical uh but when you're you're stranded in it and a very you're so isolated and you're trapped in this person's home and you know the roads were dangerous and even though there was dialogue about that they demonstrated that with the car

crash what finally makes it real yeah you know so it is they do establish it dangerous to me on the road and it's like i don't blame her for not thinking straight You know, of course I'd be like, yeah, grab the tape, get out of it, hide, wait till morning, uh, what, or just play cool, you know, but you also don't know, like, maybe she's trapping me here and she's going to kill me tonight, you know? Yeah, when you said the thing about the poison, I was like, I don't know, maybe. Yeah, I could see it happening. And that's great, because, because then they play on you. And I love the way that the mom character ultimately kind of realize, like she, she so isn't on the. that wavelength of she knows of pia knows anything at all that it really takes into they're out in the middle of the road like it does seem like she really is just concerned until pia like freaks and runs off and then she's like oh oh yes okay yeah yeah there's nothing i can do about this well she said that she would she wouldn't hurt her and i actually kind of believed her yeah yeah like it's

so and it and it begs this i mean it begs this fascinating sympathy for a despicable a character was done these horrifically despicable things got to be careful about the words here but there was an interesting moment where there was a activity in the bedroom that you could hear that you cut to and you see the mom's reaction to it and there's parts of this or remind me of like x sure like she's like pearl in that movie yeah a little bit you know like even hearing her son and you think it's like disproving of this kind of behavior yeah when really it's like oh yeah yeah I want that again yeah that's an interesting flip yeah well yeah and and and too it plays on that small town thing of like oh well I guess you know yeah sure it's possible you're isolated you know there's not a heck of a lot to do already like sure you'll get into some kind of weird love club or something like that I don't know that's disgusting that was cool yeah I was really well done. Really icky and effective.

Yeah, I love that one. That was a great one. Yeah. That was great. Agreed. Poor Eggman. Never going to have his story told. I feel like that episode tops like the last four.

Probably. Yeah, yeah. I think this is definitely one of, it's like, in some ways, the first episode appears like it's like, that's a black mirror. But this felt like as much as this isn't so much about like modern tech, this felt. this felt like the feeling of black mirror i don't know i like these kind of i mean we've reached a movie here called i see you i just watched missing um i like i love these kind of like twists and mysteries and all that and that are character driven at the same time yeah these i really love these kind of uh genres these styles i think they're really great yeah all righty

well that's it for black mirror episode two um it's good to have this this brought back the feeling of it's good to have black mirror back yeah that brought it back for me um leave your thoughts down below and this is one without any famous people or than jonathan moscow what his name john hannah john hannah yeah the woman who played the mom i think like is in a lot of like high caliber dramatic work and stuff like that like i know

i've seen her i can't conjure her name to mine but uh not that famous i feel like she was like just nominated for something but yeah i mean not as not as famous as john hannah or salma hyac and yeah michael sarah certainly not or jessie pinkman jesse

i'm just going to credit him as jessie all righty guys well thanks for being here let's send us to the We all know that we can't be fooled by your pleasantries. You're full of shit, Tyler Haig. You come across like, oh, yeah, I'm just a soft-spoken guy who keeps to myself and stays in my 12 monitors at a time. But you know what's going on on those monitors? You're keeping tabs on your cage to victims. I know exactly what you're doing in that moment in time.

Torture Haig. You're just going there and you're eating their body parts, you sick son of a big. You gross man. And then wearing their skin as hats. But part of me is hoping that that is what allows you to be, you know, remaining pledged is that you're taking their money and shuffling into your bank account. So as long as you just keep those activities you're doing in Wisconsin, got no issues. Just don't bring into California. We got enough of them over here.

But if you just keep it in Wisconsin, your neck of the woods, it's easier to get away with it out there. No one cares. It keeps things exciting. So thank you, Tyler, for not murdering anyone in California. I hope that you never get caught. But if our Patreon gets shut down, no refunds. No refunds.

To any one that you've captured. And if you do get caught, we get to react to your story first, your footage and all that stuff. All the evidence we get to leak it and get all those tasty views. And then we know who could play you in a dramatized movie. You know who could play Tyler Haig? Let's hear it. Who's your cast in?

Who's your fan cast? Jonah Hill. Jonah Hill. Don't win that Oscar finally. Definitely. All he's got to do is go, you know, to the real depths of despair and depravity. Everyone needs their one-hour photo movie. That's going to be.

Everyone needs their deranged killer movie. Thanks, Tyler.