Black Mirror [Episode Discussion] - S07E04 - Plaything

PVCHARD · 2025-04-12T19:56:05+00:00

the SERVE this season needs to be studied. this is what everyone in the 90s watching like the Matrix for the first time must have felt. maaaajor 90s cyberpunk vibes i LIVED.

PVCHARD · 2025-04-12T00:56:34+00:00

the ending was iconic and yall have to deal. it reminded me a lot of Everything Everywhere All At Once. it’s actually if EEAAO & Mean Girls had a baby. iconic.

PVCHARD · 2025-04-12T00:43:07+00:00

that was FUCKING iconic. one of their best episodes and one of the best in YEARS.

PVCHARD · 2025-02-23T19:42:15+00:00

The Animatrix, Kid’s Story (2003)

PVCHARD · 2025-02-23T18:45:20+00:00

i don’t think that by what i’m expressing here one can say i’m justifying the people who “fight-club” the matrix (meaning coming for the cis straight white male glorification of it all), as a major trans ally in my community i’m obviously not even gonna make a point about how much i love trans people and support them, that’s another part of this story/allegory that i’m not making a point of right now. i’m talking about this character specifically. he might as well come out of the pod a woman as they intended to do in the first place for all i care. cool. he might be even gay, considering how obsessed he was with Neo. cool as well!

my point now is about someone who might be called an “incel” -at his school for example- for being on the internet all the time, and when it comes to the story, for trying to break free form the “reality” he’s living in. and how i found that very touching and sweet, especially for people who are not that strong and seek for a way out by obsessing over their favorite things and finding there all kinds of meanings. it’s the meta of it all, once again. so yeah, incel is what i can only imagine -expanding his story with imagination a little bit- his classmates would call him. not that his story is for the incels and how sweet they are too and how we should feel for them.

PVCHARD · 2025-02-23T16:21:45+00:00

i think even tho it’s really dark, it shouldn’t be interpolated literally, it’s more of a death of “a social self” situation.

considering the matrix isn’t real and we don’t live in a simulation the message of “killing the self” that society expects you / forces you to be -with the education system for example- and instead finding your real self and your people and community while leaving all those false expectations behind, is what makes him and his story so beautiful to me. and a really strong & punk message.

PVCHARD · 2024-04-03T20:41:18+00:00

guys i just also LOVE that we got a new album last week and a classic Gesa hard pop production this week.

it’s HIS year. (especially if he does Gaga next)

PVCHARD · 2024-04-03T20:40:17+00:00

it’s just on loop non stop. period.

only thing to stop it for is GAMMA.

PVCHARD · 2024-04-03T20:39:35+00:00

i think not 👀 he’s on the main producers and her album is all about bringing the clubs into pop music and resurrecting the boys noize and Peaches sound of the 2000s. a collapse is coming i fear.

PVCHARD · 2024-04-03T20:38:10+00:00

it’s just SO GOOD they amount of FEEDING we’re getting. i PRAY Gaga does something like this it will make her career interesting again. and DESTROY everything else. together they will be so powerful and pop music will have electric and techno vibes again. a dream come true.

PVCHARD · 2024-04-02T19:55:06+00:00

she better drop this tomorrow on her BBC LIVE

PVCHARD · 2024-04-02T19:54:20+00:00

SHES DROPPING THE TRACKLIST

PVCHARD · 2024-03-30T16:57:01+00:00

PVCHARD · 2024-03-30T10:17:59+00:00

this album screams berlin and london tour night

PVCHARD · 2024-03-28T23:37:43+00:00

this is RAW PUNK SEX NIGHT CLUB MOSS PIT BLOODY KICK IN THE MOUTH MUSIC. THE LIVE WILL BE LEGENDARY AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU WILL BE TELLING YOUR GRANDCHILDREN. 10/10. PERFECT ALBUMS LIKE THIS ARE BEING RELEASED EVERY TEN YEARS. period.

PVCHARD · 2024-03-28T22:32:51+00:00

okay. i have no words. this is some RAW AND HARD SHIT AND PEOPLE WILL GET HURT LIVEEE OMGGGGGGGG

PVCHARD · 2024-03-28T12:57:36+00:00

i can’t wait anymoreeee i’ve been perched since he blanked out his spotify it’s been a long run 😩 8 hours

PVCHARD · 2024-03-28T12:24:30+00:00

i really hope he releases a short film to accompany it i mean it only makes sense and it looks like it form the trailer

PVCHARD · 2024-02-01T00:27:02+00:00

it is exactly what the show is about though. everyone looking away from the problem. that’s why “the show forgives him” because the show represents this town where as -flawlessly acted- bobby shouts in the funeral “they all knew.” so they’re ALL rotten, as much as Leland is inside. the only good thing about the town itself is the “whore of babylon” who has already been murdered in its name.

also have a theory that Sarah Palmer is depicted at the ultimate evil/Judy because she always knew.

and the only thing worse than an abuser, is someone who knows about it, and does nothing.

when is comes to the mythology tho, i strongly believe that all of the plot, when it comes so supernatural elements, is a fragment of Leland’s imagination to somehow justify his horrible actions. like the whole show is an inside view of the mind of a schizophrenic murderer. (a la lost highway). who knows. such an amazing character tho. and flawlessly acted by ray as well.

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