Yeah, S3 E1 -Nosedive, one of the weakest episodes.
She was also in Spider-Man 3, M.Night Shymalan's The Village and Lady In The Water. And Jurassic World. That's all I know her from, not a great track record.
Admittedly, her work is pretty weak but her dad's Ron Howard, so she'll never be a "starving actor". Still, I would (gladly) blow a load on her face.
That wasn't that weak of an episode. Premise was good enough to carry the episode, fucking wedding I had to pause the scene and ready myself for 30 seconds to prepare for the cringe, and the ending was cute where her and the black guy finally get to talk shit to each other.
I'm a guy and as such I don't really care about facebook, and don't even have twitter or instagram. But so many female friends of mine I see on social media try so goddamn hard to be like Bryce's character - positive, happy things to get the most likes and positive feedback.
That one scene in the beginning where she bites the cookie perfectly, positions it next to the cup of coffee and tweets something like "way to start the morning!" and giggles while the likes and comments come in? Then she fucking sips the coffee and goes "ugh", like this shit is repulsive to her but she does it anyway for the social media attention? That one little moment says too much about society right now.
You make good points about that episode, some of which I didn't pick up on first viewing. Will go back and watch it again. I did think it was one of the weaker episodes, along with the Prime Minister fucking the pig, the lesbians in stasis, the dead boyfriend brought back as a sim, the Waldo one and (for me, easily the weakest) - the last episode of s3 - the stupid bee one.
Know that's quite a lot but the others, especially White Bear, the Christmas one, Play Test, Shut Up and Dance and 15 million credits, were some of the most original and thought-provoking things I've seen on tv or film.
Will go back and watch that episode though, after what you wrote. Might just not have been in the right mood when I saw it first.
Weaker episodes for me are Pig, Dead Boyfriend, Waldo, and Shut up and Dance. Everyone seems to like Shut up and Dance and I was bored out of my mind the entire way through and didn't even give a shit about the twist at the end. Lesbians in stasis is my favorite of all of them actually.
Bee one could have been cut by 10 minutes but I liked the overall message - let's not fucking pretend if that shit happened IRL we wouldn't have organized a #kill Gregg Hughes hashtag and all subsequently gotten killed. As corny as this sounds, I like the episodes with an overall message, an allegory to a societal problem. In this case, the fact that a celebrity fucks up once and the mob mentality of the internet - all the fake ass bitches preaching tolerance and equality and love - all grab their fucking pitchforks and take a stab at the villain of the day. The acceptable target of the day. Shit, we're guilty too. But yeah, a lot of that could have been left on the editing room floor.
Out of interest, what did you like so much about the lesbian one? It was quite emotional at the end, I'll be honest, but by the time she moved to the 90s I knew what was going on.
Conversely, Shut up and dance, I felt sorry for the kid until the twist and was completely invested in the episode the whole way through. Am such a willing suspension of disbelief dummy that I didn't get what he was so scared about until his mum phoned at the end. Legitimately thought he was just nervous about a video of him wanking being sent out to his friends was what was driving him.
They didn't make it particularly hard to figure out the twist, at times it seemed almost too obvious especially when you realize you're watching Black Mirror and there has to be some sort of technological aspect, they're not just angels in heaven.
It's a story about a girl living for the first real time in her life, going through steps we take for granted. So in real life, lesbian comes out to her parents, but they're religious so it's a big fight and the lesbian drives off all mad and ends up as a cripple. Now she's confined to a fucking bed, her parents likely making sure she knew Jesus crippled her for the sin of being gay, just a real life filled with misery and guilt and sitting in your own shit until someone changes your bedpan.
Then she goes to San Junipero and she's young again, she's interacting with strangers, falling in love, dancing, getting her puss licked. Dumb little thing called the pursuit of happiness, whatever that may be, finding things in your life that bring you joy. And it's all just a bunch of dead people imbedded into chips in some factory somewhere, all young and sexy. Not reminiscing about their youth, but living it, enjoying it, not just having your soul wiped from the earth the moment you die. That heaven is a place on earth song - that's the episode. They literally invented heaven at some company's headquarters. And someone who suffered as much as Yorkie did in real life gets a pass. That fucking song still get me a teeny bit pissy eyed.
I just felt shut up and dance could have been told in 7 minutes. Bronn from Thrones was pretty much wasted, and it followed the same pattern: hackers say to do something and the kid does it. I will agree the mom phone call at the end was the best part because it really drives home how fucked he is, but he's a pedo. As much as I laugh at Uncle Paul I have little sympathy for actual pedos. Hell, I sympathized more with the troll for fucking him over.
They didn't make it particularly hard to figure out the twist, at times it seemed almost too obvious especially when you realize you're watching Black Mirror and there has to be some sort of technological aspect, they're not just angels in heaven.
It's a story about a girl living for the first real time in her life, going through steps we take for granted. So in real life, lesbian comes out to her parents, but they're religious so it's a big fight and the lesbian drives off all mad and ends up as a cripple. Now she's confined to a fucking bed, her parents likely making sure she knew Jesus crippled her for the sin of being gay, just a real life filled with misery and guilt and sitting in your own shit until someone changes your bedpan.
Then she goes to San Junipero and she's young again, she's interacting with strangers, falling in love, dancing, getting her puss licked. Dumb little thing called the pursuit of happiness, whatever that may be, finding things in your life that bring you joy. And it's all just a bunch of dead people imbedded into chips in some factory somewhere, all young and sexy. Not reminiscing about their youth, but living it, enjoying it, not just having your soul wiped from the earth the moment you die. That heaven is a place on earth song - that's the episode. They literally invented heaven at some company's headquarters. And someone who suffered as much as Yorkie did in real life gets a pass. That fucking song still get me a teeny bit pissy eyed.
-Very well put.
I just felt shut up and dance could have been told in 7 minutes. Bronn from Thrones was pretty much wasted, and it followed the same pattern: hackers say to do something and the kid does it. I will agree the mom phone call at the end was the best part because it really drives home how fucked he is, but he's a pedo. As much as I laugh at Uncle Paul I have little sympathy for actual pedos. Hell, I sympathized more with the troll for fucking him over.
-I agree, didn't mean that I had sympathy for him as a pedo obviously. Just that I was rooting for him until I found out what he'd done. That made me question a lot. It also, weirdly, humanised a sicko like him. Not that I wanted it. That was also interesting. We (myself included) tend to dismiss fuckers like that as "monsters" or "beasts", sometimes forgetting that they're ultimately just humans. And sometimes maybe just pathetic, fucked up kids like the main character in that.
On a lighter note, as a Brit - "Bronn" from GoT in first and foremost the guy from a crappy 90s tv show called Soldier, Soldier. Him and his co-star had a number 1 record in 1995 or something doing a cover of Unchained Melody. Horrendous stuff.
You know with pedos, it's tough because you don't get to choose your sexual preferences. But the difference between Bruce & Tim, a gay couple I just made up, is that Bruce and Tim are both happy as can be being gay together and nobody's bothered except closeted homosexuals and religious fundamentalists. Compare that to pedophiles, animal fuckers, rapists who prioritize their own horniness even if it means hurting an innocent life.
Yes, at the end of the day they're still humans who eat and shit and sleep, but like the old Louis CK bit, pedophiles always try to fuck children. They want it so bad they'll risk everything, the least of which is "this 8-year-old I'm fucking might just be scarred for the rest of their life thanks to me wanting to bust a nut". I guess the problem was I was never really rooting for the protagonist to succeed even when I didn't know he was a pedo, the character wasn't written very strongly and was mostly just panicked. "Local boy does things the troll tells him to do".
What's the message of the episode that's an allegory to something about modern society? Don't look at child porn? Trolls will fuck with you? And I kinda like all the technologies - the bees, the programmed sex dreams, the flights only being available to 4.0s and above. None of that in Shut up in Dance, at least nothing I can recall.
You're right of course. Don't get me wrong, I've got a 19 month old son. If anyone even tried to touch him, I'd kill them. That's not trying to sound like a tough guy. I'd fucking kill them with my bare hands. And I didn't need to have a kid to feel that level of repulsion.
I guess I just enjoyed that episode because I took it as one thing (a mini-thriller where the protagonists were against the clock) while ignoring the lack of technological metaphor/dystopian theme that most BM episodes have and was genuinely shocked by the twist/outcome.
Anyway, am going to bed but have enjoyed this. You sound like an interesting and smart dude. You ever find yourself in Prague, drop me a line, the beers are on me. No shit.
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n/a NumeroOtto 2017-01-18
she is the poor mans Jessica chastain
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
And Jessica Chastain is the poor (tit) man's Christina Hendrick's.
n/a I_Hate_Knickers 2017-01-18
She's fucking beautiful.
But ginger.
;(
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
There's a subtle difference between redhead chicks and GINGERS. They smell the same but the redheads look better and their hair isn't as orange.
n/a dassabessdoe 2017-01-18
Was she in that episode of Black Mirror? If so, that's all I know her from.
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
Yeah, S3 E1 -Nosedive, one of the weakest episodes.
She was also in Spider-Man 3, M.Night Shymalan's The Village and Lady In The Water. And Jurassic World. That's all I know her from, not a great track record.
Admittedly, her work is pretty weak but her dad's Ron Howard, so she'll never be a "starving actor". Still, I would (gladly) blow a load on her face.
n/a dassabessdoe 2017-01-18
Her pa is Ron Howard? Her IMDB is pathetic then.
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
Ole Ronnie obviously takes nepotism only so far. He hasn't hired his daughter, thus then his movies are still successful.
n/a Bibimbap4211 2017-01-18
Sam looks like her Uncle Clint
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
Ok, that made me laugh.
n/a OkaySeriouslyBro 2017-01-18
That wasn't that weak of an episode. Premise was good enough to carry the episode, fucking wedding I had to pause the scene and ready myself for 30 seconds to prepare for the cringe, and the ending was cute where her and the black guy finally get to talk shit to each other.
I'm a guy and as such I don't really care about facebook, and don't even have twitter or instagram. But so many female friends of mine I see on social media try so goddamn hard to be like Bryce's character - positive, happy things to get the most likes and positive feedback.
That one scene in the beginning where she bites the cookie perfectly, positions it next to the cup of coffee and tweets something like "way to start the morning!" and giggles while the likes and comments come in? Then she fucking sips the coffee and goes "ugh", like this shit is repulsive to her but she does it anyway for the social media attention? That one little moment says too much about society right now.
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
You make good points about that episode, some of which I didn't pick up on first viewing. Will go back and watch it again. I did think it was one of the weaker episodes, along with the Prime Minister fucking the pig, the lesbians in stasis, the dead boyfriend brought back as a sim, the Waldo one and (for me, easily the weakest) - the last episode of s3 - the stupid bee one.
Know that's quite a lot but the others, especially White Bear, the Christmas one, Play Test, Shut Up and Dance and 15 million credits, were some of the most original and thought-provoking things I've seen on tv or film.
Will go back and watch that episode though, after what you wrote. Might just not have been in the right mood when I saw it first.
n/a OkaySeriouslyBro 2017-01-18
Weaker episodes for me are Pig, Dead Boyfriend, Waldo, and Shut up and Dance. Everyone seems to like Shut up and Dance and I was bored out of my mind the entire way through and didn't even give a shit about the twist at the end. Lesbians in stasis is my favorite of all of them actually.
Bee one could have been cut by 10 minutes but I liked the overall message - let's not fucking pretend if that shit happened IRL we wouldn't have organized a #kill Gregg Hughes hashtag and all subsequently gotten killed. As corny as this sounds, I like the episodes with an overall message, an allegory to a societal problem. In this case, the fact that a celebrity fucks up once and the mob mentality of the internet - all the fake ass bitches preaching tolerance and equality and love - all grab their fucking pitchforks and take a stab at the villain of the day. The acceptable target of the day. Shit, we're guilty too. But yeah, a lot of that could have been left on the editing room floor.
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
Out of interest, what did you like so much about the lesbian one? It was quite emotional at the end, I'll be honest, but by the time she moved to the 90s I knew what was going on.
Conversely, Shut up and dance, I felt sorry for the kid until the twist and was completely invested in the episode the whole way through. Am such a willing suspension of disbelief dummy that I didn't get what he was so scared about until his mum phoned at the end. Legitimately thought he was just nervous about a video of him wanking being sent out to his friends was what was driving him.
n/a OkaySeriouslyBro 2017-01-18
They didn't make it particularly hard to figure out the twist, at times it seemed almost too obvious especially when you realize you're watching Black Mirror and there has to be some sort of technological aspect, they're not just angels in heaven.
It's a story about a girl living for the first real time in her life, going through steps we take for granted. So in real life, lesbian comes out to her parents, but they're religious so it's a big fight and the lesbian drives off all mad and ends up as a cripple. Now she's confined to a fucking bed, her parents likely making sure she knew Jesus crippled her for the sin of being gay, just a real life filled with misery and guilt and sitting in your own shit until someone changes your bedpan.
Then she goes to San Junipero and she's young again, she's interacting with strangers, falling in love, dancing, getting her puss licked. Dumb little thing called the pursuit of happiness, whatever that may be, finding things in your life that bring you joy. And it's all just a bunch of dead people imbedded into chips in some factory somewhere, all young and sexy. Not reminiscing about their youth, but living it, enjoying it, not just having your soul wiped from the earth the moment you die. That heaven is a place on earth song - that's the episode. They literally invented heaven at some company's headquarters. And someone who suffered as much as Yorkie did in real life gets a pass. That fucking song still get me a teeny bit pissy eyed.
I just felt shut up and dance could have been told in 7 minutes. Bronn from Thrones was pretty much wasted, and it followed the same pattern: hackers say to do something and the kid does it. I will agree the mom phone call at the end was the best part because it really drives home how fucked he is, but he's a pedo. As much as I laugh at Uncle Paul I have little sympathy for actual pedos. Hell, I sympathized more with the troll for fucking him over.
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
They didn't make it particularly hard to figure out the twist, at times it seemed almost too obvious especially when you realize you're watching Black Mirror and there has to be some sort of technological aspect, they're not just angels in heaven. It's a story about a girl living for the first real time in her life, going through steps we take for granted. So in real life, lesbian comes out to her parents, but they're religious so it's a big fight and the lesbian drives off all mad and ends up as a cripple. Now she's confined to a fucking bed, her parents likely making sure she knew Jesus crippled her for the sin of being gay, just a real life filled with misery and guilt and sitting in your own shit until someone changes your bedpan. Then she goes to San Junipero and she's young again, she's interacting with strangers, falling in love, dancing, getting her puss licked. Dumb little thing called the pursuit of happiness, whatever that may be, finding things in your life that bring you joy. And it's all just a bunch of dead people imbedded into chips in some factory somewhere, all young and sexy. Not reminiscing about their youth, but living it, enjoying it, not just having your soul wiped from the earth the moment you die. That heaven is a place on earth song - that's the episode. They literally invented heaven at some company's headquarters. And someone who suffered as much as Yorkie did in real life gets a pass. That fucking song still get me a teeny bit pissy eyed.
-Very well put.
I just felt shut up and dance could have been told in 7 minutes. Bronn from Thrones was pretty much wasted, and it followed the same pattern: hackers say to do something and the kid does it. I will agree the mom phone call at the end was the best part because it really drives home how fucked he is, but he's a pedo. As much as I laugh at Uncle Paul I have little sympathy for actual pedos. Hell, I sympathized more with the troll for fucking him over.
-I agree, didn't mean that I had sympathy for him as a pedo obviously. Just that I was rooting for him until I found out what he'd done. That made me question a lot. It also, weirdly, humanised a sicko like him. Not that I wanted it. That was also interesting. We (myself included) tend to dismiss fuckers like that as "monsters" or "beasts", sometimes forgetting that they're ultimately just humans. And sometimes maybe just pathetic, fucked up kids like the main character in that.
On a lighter note, as a Brit - "Bronn" from GoT in first and foremost the guy from a crappy 90s tv show called Soldier, Soldier. Him and his co-star had a number 1 record in 1995 or something doing a cover of Unchained Melody. Horrendous stuff.
n/a OkaySeriouslyBro 2017-01-18
You know with pedos, it's tough because you don't get to choose your sexual preferences. But the difference between Bruce & Tim, a gay couple I just made up, is that Bruce and Tim are both happy as can be being gay together and nobody's bothered except closeted homosexuals and religious fundamentalists. Compare that to pedophiles, animal fuckers, rapists who prioritize their own horniness even if it means hurting an innocent life.
Yes, at the end of the day they're still humans who eat and shit and sleep, but like the old Louis CK bit, pedophiles always try to fuck children. They want it so bad they'll risk everything, the least of which is "this 8-year-old I'm fucking might just be scarred for the rest of their life thanks to me wanting to bust a nut". I guess the problem was I was never really rooting for the protagonist to succeed even when I didn't know he was a pedo, the character wasn't written very strongly and was mostly just panicked. "Local boy does things the troll tells him to do".
What's the message of the episode that's an allegory to something about modern society? Don't look at child porn? Trolls will fuck with you? And I kinda like all the technologies - the bees, the programmed sex dreams, the flights only being available to 4.0s and above. None of that in Shut up in Dance, at least nothing I can recall.
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
You're right of course. Don't get me wrong, I've got a 19 month old son. If anyone even tried to touch him, I'd kill them. That's not trying to sound like a tough guy. I'd fucking kill them with my bare hands. And I didn't need to have a kid to feel that level of repulsion.
I guess I just enjoyed that episode because I took it as one thing (a mini-thriller where the protagonists were against the clock) while ignoring the lack of technological metaphor/dystopian theme that most BM episodes have and was genuinely shocked by the twist/outcome.
Anyway, am going to bed but have enjoyed this. You sound like an interesting and smart dude. You ever find yourself in Prague, drop me a line, the beers are on me. No shit.
n/a ChinatownMikey 2017-01-18
Does pube head have a top lip?
n/a I_Hate_Knickers 2017-01-18
Jimmy has breasts now.
:)
n/a PepperTheCentaur 2017-01-18
He probably thinks that's how you get a station named in your honor.
n/a TinKnockinMoroccan 2017-01-18
Her outfit is awful. Whoever dressed her should be shot in front of their family.
n/a JohnQNo1 2017-01-18
Thats the gayest thing ever types on this subreddit
n/a JoeCumiasCockBreath 2017-01-18
Well said.
This is probably the best thing ever types on this subreddit.
n/a Billyassman 2017-01-18
Sam's a knuckle dragging faggot.His hand,wtf.
n/a McGowan9 2017-01-18
There's a subtle difference between redhead chicks and GINGERS. They smell the same but the redheads look better and their hair isn't as orange.