The Reel Rejects - BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 Episode 1 | "Common People" Breakdown & Review!

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Starting point is 00:01:26 I could tell. I could tell. It's like, do you think, honestly, that there are worse things than death? Do you think it would have been better if he had just let her go before putting it in the brain? That's a philosophical question about the unknown because you don't... No, I'm saying with hindsight. In hindsight? You think he should have let her die?

Starting point is 00:01:55 Yes. I think the lasting memories are thwarted and the pain of having to I mean I guess it's like

Starting point is 00:02:02 semi-Romio and Juliet at the end because the implication is that he ends his existence too dancing around

Starting point is 00:02:09 words here he ends his existence as well at the end and I think the he would have there would have been a person

Starting point is 00:02:18 a preservation of good memories and joy but a lot of that joy has been robbed of them now and their last memories

Starting point is 00:02:25 together and the last like year and a half that they had together so yeah I think well there were two more anniversaries yeah there were some good stuff I think that they're there no I just mean so maybe maybe longer than a year and a half right because yeah it was like three years I think their whole journey was something like that I don't know I don't know that was heartbreaking that was really heartbreaking I mean to have chris O'Dowd to have Tracy Ellis Ross and to have Rashida Jones in a Black Mirror episode just shows the heavy hitters that still are intrigued by this franchise, always about technology, always making you think about what is life and at what point is technology taking away instead of adding.

Starting point is 00:03:14 I love, love, love, love this show. And this is one of the reasons why. It's so sad and so depressing, but it also just makes you really question things in our capability. what did you make about the first off prepper thanks for reading down these highlights forgot to mention that thank you this is a hard one to edit for sure be all that stuff you got to dance around what did you think about the what is your interpretation of the metaphors that the movie there's some very obvious ones and some other ways to take away some of the metaphors so what did you think what what the question is what metaphor did I think what were the metaphors What is your interpretation of the metaphors they're talking about? Obviously, they're talking about like medical systems, subscription services.

Starting point is 00:04:01 Right, totally. Being enslaved to these systems. What are your thoughts on all that? Accurate. That it's accurate. You know, the medical system in the States has us by the throat and there's nothing you can do. If you can't pay, you die. And that's the truth of our nation.

Starting point is 00:04:23 if you have a sickness which she did and you can't pay to get better then you die it's really sad and I think that some people would watch this and not relate this to our system but this is literally our system and then the subscription thing

Starting point is 00:04:41 I think is just a funny part of it right like if you don't want ads then you have to pay more money and if you want it to have 4D your better sound quality then you have to pay more money that part's the part that we're all get annoyed about but the health insurance part is the part that only some people know and those people unfortunately know well yeah when you're when you like sign up for insurance is out here

Starting point is 00:05:04 with the the different tiers of what you get access to in the medical system like when you're for your monthly insurance plans and how they drew the illustration of that with subscription models being kind of a similar thing yeah and while it's that's where a lot of the the humor of this does come in, it does beg the question, though, of sort of the way these subscription models do hook you. And that's a similar kind of thought process to get you hooked and dependent on it. And even though subscription services are for pure entertainment purposes versus the necessity of survival, like how insurance is supposed to be, the way they run people's health is pure capitalism and is corrupt and not for the betterment of people.

Starting point is 00:05:59 This is more about extra gain. So I think to use a very famous business model for modern-day times, draw the allegory to how insurance companies run, how the medical system runs is actually quite, it's a smart thing to do. It's cheeky. It's smart. I think it's really smart. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:17 The reason I didn't think of this as much as about addiction. is because addiction stems from things that you don't need but that you want and this was what she literally needed in order to survive. I think it talks to addiction might be too harsh. I knew what you meant though, but just like

Starting point is 00:06:38 it's not like she's like oh I just want an upgrade maybe the plus the platinum version or whatever but like being able to leave your little vicinity and being able to not perform ads for children it's not like a want right that's like a survival

Starting point is 00:06:56 need yeah but they put you the push into things of not man the ad thing is the thing that was like really chirping my mind oh yeah that was so interesting they did that because it makes you ponder like what are they

Starting point is 00:07:11 to do a reaction to black mirror and then to immediately talk about it is kind of a challenge for a brain like mine and I imagine a brain like because I'm like, I kind of need a moment to really process this because we reacted, but I need a moment to respond to what we saw. And the ad thing was unnerving because it, to me, at least upon initial feelings, it's about the interpretation I personally had is about how they feed you a lot of information.

Starting point is 00:07:45 They do feed you a lot of ads. And then when does the line become where your brain is. so manipulated that you become a walking advertisement as well and then like they don't really have like influence they have like touch on the influencer side in a weird way because it's not really influencer what chris so doubt is forced into doing back that's that feels like the most real that's like a that's not even like a freaking um metaphor yeah that's a real thing that happens it's not a sci-fi thing i mean you you talk about this on your podcast with quite often um and something I talk about with my friends all the time, but it's also just like the way that

Starting point is 00:08:24 the world is right now and the negativity on the internet, I would always rather pay somebody like to go live their dreams than pay something to do something horribly painful because I would think that was entertaining. I never, watching people in pain is zero percent of the time entertaining to me. At zero. And so watching people who are like one up, like put your in it or like you know may put it on your tongue or show your face so you can destroy your life or even his co-worker who's watching it do you think that's a huge commentary on society too that like you're more we're more willing to pay people to fail than we are to pay them to succeed and um that's horrible well yeah i think the the whole episode at least to me seems to talk about how the system pushes people to become very desperate for stuff and that and they thrive off of that desperation. And yeah, like the, what I liked about that is there was a time where a black mirror would have us a black mirror or a movie. Like we even watch like unfriended dark web where what Chris O'Dowd is doing, there was a time where that would be like underground and secretive.

Starting point is 00:09:43 And now this is a world where it's not. Yeah. It's a thing you access by typing it on the internet and anyone can use and it's public information and people at as work and gain access to it. And it is, it is scary. It is scary. It's scary too that Netflix can make a, it's like to do what Joan is awful and then to do something like this that directly is talking about, you know, the allegories of subscription models and stuff. And Bander Snatch? And Bander Snatch. Why I mentioned Bander Snitch?

Starting point is 00:10:22 Did you not get to the Netflix part of Bader Snatch? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well. People are paying to tell you what to do. I mean, that's the... It's insane that Netflix can say this to us and we still participate. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:37 Because they got their hooks at us, you know? And we don't even question it. We go about it. And if we do question it, it doesn't really seem like it's questioned enough where we're going to start a revolution to go against the grain here, you know? 100%. Sometimes I wonder, and I think I'll probably ask you this, for all six or seven episodes of this season, however many they are. Did you think, like, would you have gone to see this in theaters if it was a movie?

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Starting point is 00:13:26 and my tastes. Just so felt like a movie to me, this one. This was, there was a clear like three-act structure, honestly, with three big celebrities on a, with a beginning, middle, and an end that

Starting point is 00:13:42 clearly hooked, was gripping to me. And I think to you as well. This one was movie material for me. It's always kind of wonder the difference between them putting out Bander Snatch as a movie as opposed to all the other ones that are TV episodes. Well, I think that this, well, Bandersnatch was a movie because of the whole,

Starting point is 00:14:04 it could turn into hours long. But how long was this an hour? And there's also alternate routes you can take into it. For sure. So, yeah. For sure. This was like 54 minutes. They're all so standalone.

Starting point is 00:14:16 alone to me they're each a movie yeah i think like 20 more minutes would have made this an actual movie length runtime and i i don't i don't know i mean i i do think though like if we're speaking in terms of runtime i think in the way this was executed yeah it's executed pretty damn well yeah unbelievably because it spans a lot of time and you have to watch this entire descent i wouldn't have minded an extra like 10 to 15 minutes personally to especially to let the last like the the epilogue of their journey um come to a close and because that was the one part that it felt a little too short for me did like the last few minutes i would have i would when she finally has serenity mean or yeah the one year later and he's he's an alcoholic and and they're they've uh they're at that

Starting point is 00:15:04 point you know like in last of us the the um nick offerman episode yeah of course how there was like that was like an hour 15 minute episode and and that last 10 to 15 minutes of their life i'm really glad they really got to just state in that and stay there and i would have i would have liked that i liked it and no man right it it was impactful here it's i'm not i don't want to lessen the impact um i do think that was the one part where i'm a siko i would love to be more in the tragedy of it that much more it was dark as hell and but i think chris o'dowd and and uh rishita jones how do you feel about them let me hear your thoughts on that as performers yeah i know what you thought they did here um i thought they're great i thought they're amazing what did you i think you

Starting point is 00:15:52 have something you want to say i know i'm trying to be respectful tell me what you talk jesus i want to hear what you have to say i think it's smart casting because rachita jones and chrisot have a have a wide variety of work but they're also those kind of actors like almost any actor there are there are also those actors where they're primarily known for like a few things they've been in right like to where the masses will pretty much identify them from this or this or this. So it's just to understand what you're saying where do you think of them from?

Starting point is 00:16:26 Chris O'Dowd for me is immediately bridesmaids. Rashida Jones, I think Parks and Rec. And I love you, man. I normally associate them in comedy material. Okay. And I think the casting of them is smart because

Starting point is 00:16:42 in the beginning they're playing incredibly to their type and strength for the things are cast as you know like bantery couple and everything is there's there's a there's a sarcasm to the way they are and even right when he greets her at work he's got his leg up on the car and he's stretching out like yeah this is this is the type they they would play and their rhythm and the way the the the back and forth is and it's smart that they they start that way and then as the story progresses you get to really see their dramatic acting shops take place that never feels like they're trying too hard they feel just as natural just

Starting point is 00:17:23 as real their dissent their disintegration um feels genuine and organic and still feels part of the same personality you know and they've done other work where up where they get to show that that side of them i think it's really cool that they got to do something that this popular that allows them to showcase that wide range of talent from comedy to drama and show it's all one and the same so i was i was very impressed with how they both did this because i cared a lot about them and the part with black mirror where you have to succeed that's really hard at like i watch all a banner snatch didn't give a shit about the main guy and watching this the i i care about them pretty pretty quick you really do and that's the hard part with an anthology is you have to

Starting point is 00:18:14 to care about your main characters right away and this episode greatly succeeded that and to do common people where you want to create that relatability and black mirror i i feel like there's great episodes in every season of black mirror i know the reputation of it has not been as strong in terms of how revered it is you told me that before we started i didn't know that oh yeah it's kind of a common thing if it's not as well it's not as loved as it was once was to me this episode reminds me a lot of earlier seasons huh because there was the the trend with the what happened with black mirrors is a BBC show and then Netflix bought it and then it became a Netflix show and then you stopped liking it as much I've always liked it I know

Starting point is 00:19:01 the public has had it's if you it was the it was around the time with the Anthony Mackey see with the three episodes there's Anthony Mackey one the Miley Cyrus one yeah I know that was the one I loved that season. I love the Miley episode. I really like Anthony Mackey episode. We would not see eye on the Miley one. But I love the Anthony Mackey one. I actually, there's never been an episode of Black Mirror that I didn't like.

Starting point is 00:19:28 That's good to hear. Yeah, ever. There have been episodes I love more than others. But they all make me think. I think that they're all super poignant, there's never been a bad performance. Why did you think Miley was bad? I don't recall thinking she was bad. Okay.

Starting point is 00:19:42 Yeah. I think there's never been a bad performance. I just feel like they understand the show that they are putting in front of us. I love this show. Like, I think it's brilliant. And I love the early seasons. And I love the recent. I love the show.

Starting point is 00:19:59 Yeah. I think the earlier seasons messed me up way more. Once America became the thing that was truly running it, I became less messed up. This is kind of messed me up. I think as I've been more concerned about our society, things have messed me up more. So as it becomes more, as I mature, because it started in 2011 or something, I think. And I don't think I was old enough to understand how real some of the possibilities of the, like, did you watch any part of this and think, that would never happen? No, no, of course not.

Starting point is 00:20:38 You don't watch it very, like, yeah, there's a, right. there's some reality when i started watching black mirror i remember thinking that like oh but this is a this is a this is a foreign concept foreign reality to me now almost every episode of black mirror that i watch i'm like man this feels so close to homes oh well that's the maturity of have you seen civil war yeah uh no i thought you were going to say catch that one no i've never i didn't see civil war i saw that you guys watched civil war i wanted to do it to the channel that wasn't picked you were gone that that was and not picked you were gone and we had an all Alex Garland.

Starting point is 00:21:12 Gone and not picked. You would have been picked. You were one of the picks. My point is that movie like Black Mirror, I loved it. And that movie like Black Mirror, as I've been watching, some of these movies I've been watching have been like earlier, like 90s and whatever, Civil War's not. But when I watch some of these movies from the past that are talking about society, it is. It's been doing a number on me in real life, like when we're done filming and everything, but I'm pondering how there's, there's these movies that tell you about society and where we're headed, and they do it in sort of a somewhat not too distant future depiction. And like what you said right now, I would watch that and go, ah, but it's a movie.

Starting point is 00:22:07 that's a show you know and now when i watch this shit when i see these movies from decades ago and i'm seeing it's so much worse now and it's so much more like what they were saying it'll be like and it is that now i go wow we don't listen to anything we don't listen to and all of black mirror most of it is a cautionary tale about where we are headed some way more sci-fi than others yeah i understand that but we're a capitalistic society and a lot of it has to do with that technology and finances yeah it's like we and and i think this show and this is another episode that is an example of that that talks heavily about our dependency on these things and and but how that they use that to enslave us in a way yeah and as much as we can have words like this have dialogue

Starting point is 00:23:03 Like, I'm still going to go on my phone after this. I'm going to do all this shit. I don't see myself really, like, trying to get off the grid or something like that. Because the seams are so seamless that you can't see it. So I think this is a great episode of Black Mirror and a good commentary. Yeah, yeah. And I think since we're going to watch three now and then another three, I think we're going to be in a really great headspace by the time we're done with this.

Starting point is 00:23:28 You wished that on us. I know. I'm excited for everyone to feel what we feel. They already feel like crap. Yeah, because a lot of them have already watched it and binged it and it felt like shit and they're going to watch it with us. And they're going to feel like shit again. And he's stoked for that. Black Mirror.

Starting point is 00:23:47 Let's go. What did you guys think about this episode of Black Mirror? Leave your thoughts down below. Before that, any last thoughts? No, really good start. That's what I love to hear. Bye.

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The Reel Rejects - BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 Episode 1 | "Common People" Breakdown & Review!

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