The Reel Rejects - BLACK MIRROR Season 7 Episode 6 "USS Callister: Into Infinity" REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:02:01 there was the most hype and anticipation around this episode, right? Because this is our first ever, like, real sequel. Yeah. And I loved USS Callister. I loved that episode. And so I was very excited for this one. And I really like what they did to make it different than they did the first one. and I'm happy to have a lot of our main people back.

Starting point is 00:02:25 I wonder how I would have felt about this episode if I didn't love the first USS Callister, like as a standalone episode. I don't know that this, like this has just been such an amazing season, but as a sequel, this was really cool to live with the characters that we love so much. I just don't know that I have as much takeaway from this,

Starting point is 00:02:46 like lessons on life or like things that I want to work on in myself. In fact, kind of the opposite, feel like what they were saying with Jesse Plymouth's character is like it's not really nature versus nurture it is 100% nature and who you are is who you are and that will come out eventually no matter which is not how I feel in life um so I think it's a really solid episode and there are moments that I thought were great but I'm feeling a little conflicted on because of that do you know what I mean at all yeah no I do uh I think it's because this is like very much a straightforward like suddenly it's a sci-fi episode of this

Starting point is 00:03:32 whatever if there isn't a callister show this would be like the second episode to the yeah so less of like an anthology episode that has like some type of deeper commentary to make either about society or about technology it's more of a continuation of the the next chapter of these characters so it's a different direction for them to take um because yeah i mean the first like 25 30 minutes of this hour and a half episode i found myself already looking at the time going oh man this really feels like it's not going to be as enjoyable and it it was like i wasn't super into the callister adventures at the top because it felt like a derivative star trek episode or something like that like it felt like the omages and everything are you a star trek fan i'm not a huge star trek

Starting point is 00:04:27 fan and i was actually thinking that one of the things that's been on our list for a long time is to cover all the star trek movies because i haven't seen like most of them and i'm not gonna definitely be covering all the i've covered i've seen my mom my mom was a huge star trek man she watched like all the shows you just opened a door is someone there come out with your hands up i'm totally flipped out your making joke but i'm actually I think it's the wind blowing it open or it might have been Olivia. I will be masculine. I'm scared.

Starting point is 00:05:07 What was it? It was nobody. Anyway, as I pretend to act like that? I wasn't scared of what I just did. You're all right? You've had some scary things in life happen. I understand. I do. And Olivia's biggest fear is home invasions.

Starting point is 00:05:34 So, yeah, I understand. Anyway. Anyway, back to reality. But, you know, my favorite films of all time are like Matrix and... But you were telling me, you were thinking about watching all the Star Trek movies. Yeah, yeah. I haven't seen them. I was exposed to a lot.

Starting point is 00:05:53 of them i could do that with you yeah i don't the thing is i'm worried about is they they're all outside of j jabrams's ones they're all like there was the shows first and then that crew got a movie yeah i saw the con one i i i'm a t o s girl i'm an original series girl i didn't watch tng but i'm a t o s person yeah i've seen all the ones with uh patrick stewart the generation's ones once uh when i was young and the shows the show episodes the movies and uh you J.J. Abrams's movies I've seen once, but most of the, of the original. Oh, you're saying next generation. Next generation movies, yeah. But you didn't see TNG show.

Starting point is 00:06:34 I've seen some episodes. My mom was obsessed with them. And there was, like, growing up, I wasn't, like, watching a lot outside of friends. I didn't watch a lot of shows in my family. Oh. It was like, that's for them. You watch Law and Order SVU, you know, like, I wasn't really there. So, like, Matrix and Termin. too. I still think it keeps like the thought-provoking side going. I don't think this is as strong as the original USS Callister. And I don't think this is, I feel like it could sure as hell be divisive for people. I really love like the last 45 minutes of this though, a lot. I thought it

Starting point is 00:07:13 was really gripping stuff. And yeah. So what's the marker for you like after she gets hit by the car? I think it was right when they actually first encounter each other when I started getting really into it. Yeah, that's when I started getting into it too. I think I even said it out loud like, okay, now I'm super duper and invested. Yeah, I think like in the first 25 minutes, it was I only, I was enjoying the real world stuff. And I liked Simpson. And I thought he was hilarious. I love that they really gave him a lot more screen time and they made him a more.

Starting point is 00:07:48 Because in the first episode, I remembered thinking he's doing a great. He was great in both parts. But him as the CEO, he was just a douchebag. He wasn't funny. And he was hilarious here. Yeah, he was really funny. And then we got to see Caveman version of him and then back to the guy on the ship. So there was really three versions of him that we kind of get to see.

Starting point is 00:08:11 Yeah. And I thought there was some meat to chew on that maybe emotional when I thought she died the real world i was bummed by that because i was so um surprised by what they decided to do when she's looking at her clone self and she's realizing there's so much more of the kind of person she could be of someone with so much more strength and assertiveness and capability capable capable i didn't even notice that um i didn't even draw the correlation that that that could possibly happen. So I thought there was like interesting existential, psychological things to explore on that front.

Starting point is 00:08:52 So whenever they touched on that stuff, it was interesting. But yeah, this was a little bit more like plot mechanic heavy with some character moments for sure. And some of them are like revisited beats instead of like new beats. Yeah. And also when you talk about plot mechanic heavy, every character understood everything so quickly. Yeah, it was a little convenient. together so conveniently so quickly which makes sense it's already an hour and a half what are we

Starting point is 00:09:18 going to do stretch that longer but not every i guess most people working for this company probably are genius but the fact that like when she describes what she describes to um jimmy's character he immediately gets it and like but it's like he's a moron in some ways but he understands very complicated things in other ways which it happens with people but the fact that everybody even the report, the journalist, everybody immediately was like, here's what's happening, here's what's happening, here's what's happening.

Starting point is 00:09:46 So that led to a lot of exposition, which, again, I understand because we are on time restrictions, this is an episode of a TV show. But that was a little bit convenient for me. It sounds like I'm being harsh on this, which is crazy because I really did like this episode and there were things that I thought were really clever

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Starting point is 00:12:22 I don't think thematically they really do anything new. Or perhaps they do like shades of new things, but not really. The first episode is powerful and popular for more than being Star Trek Rift. The commentary about power and abuse and what is sentient life. And if this technology did exist and you did this, would it really be harmful if they're not, quote, unquote, human or real? Which has been kind of a commentary on a couple of episodes this season. So I like that. But I guess I was kind of in, I was, I perhaps was a little bit more into.

Starting point is 00:13:03 I was loving the world building. I was loving like, oh, the clone technology and how they're fleshing that out and how Simpson he had the, Walton had the clone technology. I didn't see that twist coming. Yeah, I didn't either. That was really cool.

Starting point is 00:13:18 Like that's when I'm talking about some of the plot things were really cool. I thought that was a great choice. Yeah. And going into like the garage, which feels like very much like a Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak situation. I thought was really awesome too.

Starting point is 00:13:31 And the architect. And I think there's like so many great acting moments still. I think Jesse Plymins kills it again. Like kills it again. The guy's so freaking good. He's so good. Yeah, he's amazing. I love the scene when, um, what is her name, Christine Millioti?

Starting point is 00:13:48 Christa Miliotti. When she is interacting with Jesse Plemons in the architect room or whatever the, uh, whatever that room is, that duality that she's facing where it's like, it's not him. It's not the same guy, but I still got all this trauma about who he was. so I'm afraid he's going to be this way, but I need to treat him like he's not that guy, you know, like, I love those shades of her performance. I do think the crew kind of takes a giant backseat. Yeah, it is, I love that scene too, and I love that even this version of him is like, I'm just going to copy so you're here with me. And she immediately is like, no, that's the whole problem.

Starting point is 00:14:24 I thought that was very, very smart too. I think they did dumb down. Like, I enjoyed the comedy a lot of Simpson. I thought he was hilarious. At the same time, he was a little too dumb to make... To be brilliant. To make real tension out of him. Because, you know, Jesse Plemons is a super genius.

Starting point is 00:14:45 So that's a big part of what made it scary in the first episode. It's because he's got not just physical power, but the mental power and the education to outwit them. And I get the funniness about the CEO who doesn't care and all that shit. it doesn't even know his own product like i get it and that's very realistic honestly there's so so many people at that level who just don't know they're not the smartest person in the room they're the richest though yeah so i i like that um but you know it like the first one's like a psychological horror show yeah totally and and this was a pretty straightforward sci-fi like it doesn't feel as rich in the nuance um but i was still eating it up man yeah i love

Starting point is 00:15:33 because we were cooking with gas yeah yeah like they really did go a lot of making it like bigger but perhaps they lost um i think they could have used a little bit more focus on what are we really trying to say this time around but it was i guess that's a part of the experience that's different is it seems like the right that the storytellers for this really like their characters and they wanted to hang out with them again and and continue their lives and so maybe less about like commentary and themes and all that shit but they really wanted to continue on with them you know yeah they like the people that they had built my the thing I think was the funniest and the whole thing was rocky yeah that was funny you and I both thought that was hysterical um but yeah

Starting point is 00:16:18 going to what you say going back to what you said about the characters I do feel like that carried me through because I also love the characters that they created. But yeah, just the first one is such powerful messaging and this season has been such powerful messaging that I almost wonder how I'd be feeling about this if it wasn't the last episode. Yeah, it's weird.

Starting point is 00:16:41 It's like the biggest one, but it's not the richest one in terms of thought-provoking. Right, it doesn't leave you like, this isn't going to be the one that keeps me up at night. No, no, it is a pretty straightforward. Or that I call my friends and I'm like, you have to watch this one, you know. um that last one the paul giamati one and the isa ray aquifina episode those are two episodes that i am

Starting point is 00:17:03 going to be calling people about yeah yeah yeah and i eat up the little easter eggs like jesse plymonds having the bandersnatch book and stuff like oh that's cool good because it's it's maybe it plays on my mind more like what is the is it is it i mean it has to be multiple timelines but there's like some type of stronger tethering to there. But I mean, like Jesse Plumman's being locked away and the performance that he gives, like, you do feel

Starting point is 00:17:32 sorry for him. Totally. Totally. Yeah. Because he is being used. If they announced that they were doing a USS Callister episode three, would you want to watch an episode of Kristen Miliotti's character, Annette, have

Starting point is 00:17:48 the crew in her head? Yeah, I think they'd have to figure out really compelling plot though because i don't think they would like open up the game again unless they did i don't know what that would be honestly um but yeah i think they'd have to do something very different they'd have to do something completely would you be interested in if if you heard next season there was going to be i don't even know if there's going to be another season but if you heard next season there's going to be a u s callister three would you be excited undoubtedly yeah me too me too so that means they did a good job because i'd be stoked i think they could

Starting point is 00:18:20 have ended it without the moment at the couch where she's working on it I think they could have ended it just in the hospital with the realization then I would have been I think I think that would have been a perfect ending honestly I don't think we needed the whole like epilogue shit but that was the funny they wanted to put in the humor clearly this was like they really wanted the jokes I know I'm with you I'm with you I'm with you dial the back like 20% yeah I'm with you Like the whole reality show bid and stuff. Like it felt it felt like punch up writer shit. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:53 It feels like you and I feel very similarly about this episode. Yeah. You want to know what I'm going to tell the people, though. I'm not going to ask you your final ranking because... I would probably put this towards the bottom. But I'm not going to ask you it now because I'm going to ask you to film a social media video with me of our official rankings of this season. If you guys want to know what they are, you have to go to at Real Rejects wherever. Yeah.

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The Reel Rejects - BLACK MIRROR Season 7 Episode 6 "USS Callister: Into Infinity" REVIEW!!!

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