'Black Mirror' Season 5

Season 4 thread.

Ooh, only 3 new episodes, huh? Wonder how long they'll be. As always they've got a great cast. Always down for new Black Mirror.

I guess it was four if you count the pick a scene one Maybe they will almost be movie length.

Andrew scott AND topher grace. Mmm.

All three episodes out today!

Oh shit!

Black Mirror set the standard for syfy shows pretty high. I'm exited about the new season. And totally agree with r4.

First episode was excellent! Don't want to spoil anything for those who haven't gotten around to it, but it explored sexuality, relationships, compromise, sacrifice, and technological addiction to an extent. Great performances all around, especially from Nikki Beharie who played the wife. Strong start to the season!

Just saw the second one - it was dreadful.

Are all three available now?

How about Tales of the City?

Takes of the City is out on Friday

Thank you, r11. I want to start my next Netflix subscription on that day, then.

Unless his pecker is white, that was a blatant cock sock on Mackie. Disappointing.

Mackie and Abdul-Mateen II were lovely to watch. There was a lot of thick thigh action.

As for the second episode... ehh, don't know if it was dreadful, but the conceit of app addiction was underwhelming considering how dramatic the events were. I was hoping it'd all hinge on something more substantial, especially considering the themes of grief and suicide that underpinned the story.

Topher Grace was hot.

r8 Totally agree. What a wonderful meditation on romantic relationships, commitment, (emotional) cheating, and digital identities that was. On a somewhat sadder note, it took five seasons to feature male homosexuality and this is the closest we got to it.

I can't get over how gorgeous Ludi Lin looked in this episode. That bro DLer who is super into Asians and abs is going to flood his jockstrap watching this.

Does anyone know what city that in the closing shot was?

Yeah, Ludi had a tight bod. It was hot watching him pump away at Mantis. And honestly I was wondering where the episode took place as well! I think the location was intentionally obfuscated.

Ludi's back looked CRAZY in that one shot where he went to sit down. Like a fucking boulder.

Was shocked to see Pom Klementieff in the credits - had no idea that was her, although she did look awfully familiar.

Closing shot. It does look like a digital composite, to give the feel of some futuristic megalopolis. Or it might be a real city somewhere in China, I'm sure we'll know soon enough.

The American locations were nice as well. This show always looks like a million bucks.

I think it was a composite like what they did in the film Her. A mixture of different cities. I didn't realize it was Pom initially. I knew she was familiar, but it wasn't until their second jaunt into the virtual world that her voice clicked. I enjoyed her performance.

How do we feel about the Miley episode. I liked it !

On the 2nd one I liked the reactions to the news to whatever happened. How numb we are.

I enjoyed the second episode, especially the part about almost everyone being addicted to the apps except for the Silicon Valley douchebro who looks just like Jack Dorsey and Jesus Christ rolled into one. These are our new gods.

Also liked how much more informed the social media company was about the lead, while the old methods of the FBI and the British police were portrayed as dated.

They're apparently releasing the episodes in different order in different markets. A social experiment, no doubt. Or they thought the gay stuff would be less appealing as a season opener in some countries.

Is Topher doing any gay stuff?

No, he's in the other episode.

Topher is only in one episode? Is this not a series?

It's an anthology series - the same actors only appear in one episode.

Ahhh. Thank you, r26. Does Topher take his shirt or pants off?

r27 Yes, he's shirtless for most of it! And bearded.

I always liked Eric. I wanted to put something besides my foot up his ass.

Overall an okay season. I thought the first episode was the best. The second and third were alright.

Not surprised people are saying the first episode was the best, it's been that way most of the seasons. Including "Nosedive," the first episode of season 3. My favorite episode, it totally blew me away. The production values were incredible for a tv show, it looked more like a movie.

I'd say the videogame one is the best but I enjoyed the Miley one the most. A comment I saw nailed it when they said it's like an R-rated Disney princess movie. That's exactly what it was. Just so much fun.

The users on Reddit are pretty livid with the season. They say Brooker's gone soft and the show's been Americanized. I see where they're coming from, but I'm not as negative as they are. I am, however, used to a certain amount of existential dread when it comes to this show, and I felt like that was missing this season. It was close to getting there with "Smithereens", but I found that episode to be rather... simplistic in its message considering how dramatic it was.

I think if we had two more episodes to balance out the lighter tone of the season it'd feel more satisfactory. I just wanted to feel that sinking feeling in my stomach. Even Bandersnatch got me there.

Are all the episodes of Black Mirror scary and depressing?

r34 Not at all. Just one of the three this season was kinda depressing, I think.

The negotiator in the second episode is beautiful.

He was attractive! Let me try to find him.

Daniel Ings.

Ah yes. He played Dan in Sex Education. Knew I'd seen him somewhere.

The Black Mirror rip-off Weird City opened with a gay themed episode starring Dylan O'Brien (Teen Wolf, Maze Runner) and Ed O'Neil (Married with Children, Modern Family). And people consider it the best one of the run.

The new gay episode was filmed entirely in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Many of the locations are easily identifiable by anyone who lives here.

The prior seasons mostly took place in the same shared universe and mostly even the same UK, Subtle Easter egg references to people or same universe incidents confirm. Uncertain if that's carried through with the American episodes.

The Miley Cyrus episode had her on the cover of SugarApe, the magazine from Nathan Barley.

Yes the US version does self-reference.

[quote]Uncertain if that's carried through with the American episodes.

It absolutely is. There are tons of easter eggs throughout the series. The episode "Black Museum" is quite obvious about the entire series existing in the same universe.

r41 Interesting. I knew something was off. It does look kinda American at night, except for the transmission lines. So the screenshot I posted at r18 is São Paulo as well, and wasn't digitally altered in any way?

I want more of that. I know it must be expensive as hell to film in unusual locations but it's such a breath of fresh air to see that on the screen.

If that was the real Sao Paolo, it really does look like a dystopian hell.

Yeah, they're not that big on green spaces, are they? Or maybe it's because it's shot from up high and we can't see the parks.

First episode was good, second was meh, third was terrible.

R40, dear when you get us excited about a TV show no one has heard of you must tell us where you stream.

Am I the only upset about E1 being called gay ?

r50 No, I find it demeaning that we've waited five seasons for gay male characters (still waiting, actually) and now this episode is being called the gay one.

Sao Paulo is the epitome of Concrete Jungle.

If it was virtual sex between a man and man it would be gay. I’m beginning to think the Black Mirror people aren’t as smart as we think they are.

I think it's a statement about the futility of assigning a gender to sexual attraction.

I mean, that's a pretty bold statement. I took it to mean that the other guy is actually trans and the main guy just fell for this woman. Wouldn't they have the same chemistry in real life if gender was irrelevant?

I would let either of them do me.

Abdul-Mateen wasn't really doing it for me. Until I googled him and learned he's also an architect, that is. Brains get me hard.

[quote] If it was virtual sex between a man and man it would be gay. I’m beginning to think the Black Mirror people aren’t as smart as we think they are.

BM's critical acclaimed San Junipero had women meet, date, and make out in a virtual world. That is their brand.

I want Black Mirror in me.

r58 Yes, but we're bitching about the fact that (in the eyes of the showrunner) the gay male version of San Junipero needed some kind of a twist to be palatable and sellable to the general audience.

And the Oscar goes to ...........

La La Land

Faye was right

In other words r50 satisfy the homophobes.

r60, but is it really that much of a big twist when the show is about the dark side of digital technology? I mean, I find the twist in Hang The DJ rather clever to be honest.

r63 I meant a conceit rather than a twist. I'm just annoyed by the fact that this sex thing between two guys (a first in Black Mirror) can only work if there's some kind of a distance involved. That just doesn't look that great to me, sorry. Should've saved it for another straight episode.

It reminds me of that after school special episode of TNG that everyone keeps mentioning as the first gay Trek episode when it was actually more about trans folk. Don't try to kill two birds with one stone like that; it's not the '90s anymore.

R49 I feel exactly the same way. The Miley one had the potential to be the best but it just went off the rails during the second half. The second one had a lame twist at the end, was expecting something more substantial. The first episode was one of the best episodes of Black Mirror.

Am I the only one who hated the Miley episode? No one in it could act except the dark haired sister. Horrible.

R66 Nope, thought it was a train wreck, but I don't think it's Miley's fault.

It wasn't a train wreck... it was just cheesy. The problem with the second and third episode is that the social commentary wasn't thought provoking in any way. There's nothing novel about exploring the dangers of texting and driving or the exploitation of the music industry. That said, the visual effects on the Ashley Too were really good, though the robot reminded me of Eve.

Ashley's (Miley Cyrus) mansion was also used in the Amazon series Origin (the one about Natalie Tena's character's back story where the mansion belonged to a father and his daughter she was supposed to protect).

Love all three episodes in their own way. Andrew Scott is amazing the second episode. Great doing the comedy and the drama bits. Love the third, because it has a funny Disney movie vibe and foul mouthed Ashley Too.

But the best line was from the first one:

You know, I even fucked Thundra, the Polar Bear! I fucked the Polar Bear!

[quote] I think it's a statement about the futility of assigning a gender to sexual attraction.

Not quite. They tried to make it a physical thing in the real world as dudes and couldn't do it. Being opposite genders in the virtual world is what made their physical attraction possible.

“I fucked a polar bear, and I still can’t get you out of my mind.”

Who is the Asian dude in episode 1?

The first episode is one of my favorite of all seasons and episodes. It really is thought-provoking. I can’t stop thinking about it.

r73 Ludi Lin. His Insta is at r15.

For me, Black Mirror is one of the few thought-provoking shows. I would even daresay it's intellectual. When I want bubblegum I won't watch it.

I love this show but I want MORE. As in, more episodes in each season. And I hate that Bandersnatch probably ate up two or three additional episodes.

Also, São Paulo has got me all hot and bothered and now I want an episode next season to be shot in fucking Montevideo. And I'd like to see people who live there take a part in it. A bit like a TV version of Roma, if you will.

They seem disappointed that their real Life kiss was sparksless.

R78 I thought the best friend was either gay or trans for sure. Why else include a scene of him playfully humping his friend after beating him in the game?

He did seem to enjoy sex with women up to that point so he might be bi and/or trans. Or just comfortable in both genders.

I'm of two minds about using humping to denote non-hetero orientation as that's genuinely how some straight bros mess about and there's zero sexual attraction involved. You can find similar playful behaviour in dogs and other species as well.

What I struggle with is If the friends didn't feel a spark in real life why didn't Karl just get someone else to be the Lance to his Roxette?

On one hand it was presented like they had a fetish where they could only have sex with each other when they are their game avatars (meaning the avatars were more impoartant than the person behind it), but neither of them could just move on and find someone else to satisfy that new fetish. I mean Danny could've introduced his wife, Theo, to the game and spice up their stagnant sex life.

Well, Karl only felt a sexual or romantic spark with Anthony through the video game. He wasn’t attracted to real world Anthony, not pure Anthony

Would a dude playing a female feel sexual pleasure via his penis?

R83 The chip was attached to the brain, so I'd go with yes. Also it's not a documentary.

The game Striking Vipers was their escape of their present life (Danny being the boring husband and father) and Karl having to go through all kind of physical stress and torture to get laid by younger women and feel young and cool himself. By playing the game they felt "young" again and the sex was just their "hold me, I'm scared!" coping mechanism since they felt stuck and lost in real life.

Interesting that he said “you” when he said “but I can’t stop thinking about you.” He didn’t say he couldn’t stop thinking about the character.

While Karl may not be real world attracted to Danny, he is attracted to the male character played my Ludi Lin. He is aroused and smitten by Ludi Lin. I’m not trying to label him, but he is certainly attracted to Lin.

I live next to this park in São Paulo. The Striking Vipers scenes in the restaurant with floor to ceiling windows was filmed in the Tivoli Hotel in the upper center of this photo.

It’s a phenomenal episode

I felt there was suggestion it was about keeping gay sex on the downlow. It was their dirty little secret until the wife realised there was nothing she could do about it so allowed him to do it under her terms.

They weren't attracted to each other 'in real life' but when it became naughty and forbidden they couldn't keep their hands off each other.

[quote] They weren't attracted to each other 'in real life' but when it became naughty and forbidden they couldn't keep their hands off each other.

But at the end Danny and Theor came up with the compromise that at least once a year both had a free day pass. And Karl was happy with that. Even with the forbidden fruit component gone.

They made an arragement and it looks like it worked out for them in the end.

Nobody can have just one a year.

Danny was disrespectful to bring up their fling with the wife in the house

I meant Karl

Striking Vipers was such a sexy episode, with humour and sadness also thrown in. Suitably bittersweet. I'd fuck all of the adult characters. Yes, even the women.

The wife was an exceptional actress. I thought she did the best job in that episode. I'd love to see more of her in the future.

I thought the ending was a bit weird. They compromised on one night a year for him to virtually hook up with a video game character controlled by his mate and she hits the town to hook up with real life hot guys.

There's a big discrepancy in that compromise. I can see why the wife didn't want him fixated on it night after night, like any addiction that ruins relationships but hooking up with real men risks bringing STDs home, risk of pregnancy, risk of falling for one of the guys and leaving her husband.

It was a bit too much of a neat, tied with bow ending that spoiled the earlier premise. I would have preferred the two guys to realise they wanted to be together than the ending we got.

Of course you would, r97.

I thought the ending was deceptively neat in that everything you mentioned would undoubtedly unravel the agreement. That's what made it feel like Black Mirror... that compromise wasn't sustainable in the long term, but I didn't need the story to explore that. The implication is there.

Good point R99

r96 Nicole Beharie is great! She had insane chemistry with Tom Mison on Sleepy Hollow and the show went to shit after she left.

I Wanna see more of the wife

Sleepy Hollow! That's where I know her from. I never watched the show but I could see here face and voice somewhere, just couldn't place it.

I agree with above the ending was too happily ever after. They had issues even before Fighting Vipers came along, so it was weird they just decided to ignore it. It was like those click-bait articles we joke about "My husband has a VR porn addiction. Here's why I'm okay with that." I also agree it wasn't gay in my opinion. You may have a commentary on trans, but I think him talking about other experiences it is more about addiction. Not really that he loved his friend, only in Virtual Reality, rather he found the right drug, a new chemical to keep his high. I also read comments elsewhere, some people believe it's about race since both men fetishize themselves as Asians. Overall, I think the writers just wanted to make a new twist on the "Human falls in love with a robot" stories.

I did like the second episodes commentary on how much power social media companies have. They really do have access to information about anyone at their fingertips. For me it was weird that they humanized the Silicon Valley people, in real life I predict they would do nothing. Make it into an add campaign about how they don't negotiate with terrorists. I didn't like the cliffhanger ending, though. It was a bit eye-rolling they didn't just say what happened. Like they wanted to leave with you with something more thought provoking even after his confession. Too me, it was trying a bit too hard. I also don't think the hostage would have cared if the guy killed himself. I know they wanted to show a moment of empathy but in a high adrenaline situation your fight or flight response would take over before anything.

The last episode felt like they ran out of time. Like they wanted it to be a story with overlapping characters but they were like "O shit only 30 minutes left!" So they rushed to the finish line. That's why all the characters are so underdeveloped and her Aunt is just evil, like there's no nuance to her relationship with her niece.

r103 Posts like yours make me wish we had a follow option around this place so I could read your thoughts on other shows as well.

Even though I didn't like the Miley Cyrus episode, the ending does work in the context of Black Mirror not always giving you what you expect. In this case, it happens to be a very cartoony Disney teen caper movie ending with an actual former Disney star.

The first one would have been better if the lead had be written or performed to be at all likable in any way whatsoever. I didn't believe for a second that the wife would have settled for this chilly, remote, humorless, plain and now frigid guy. It strained credulity to even believe that the best friend would have ever been his friend, even in college, much less that they would have kept up the friendship long enough to even find out that they were sexual dynamite together. Bad casting.

R14 I thought it was just me! When he stood up all I wanted to do was face dive his crotch in those board shorts. I wouldn't care what he smelled like either. Even with an auburn manbun , I woulda devoured and worshiped Topher's cock :).

He was such a hot nerd! Mark Zuckerberg could never in 10,000,000 years !!! be that fuckable .

It's interesting that these are being aired in different orders for different people. It's a bit confusing to know what people mean when they say "I loved the 1st epidosde." Here's my take (and the order I got them in)

1. Miley Cyrus - I thought this one was weak for Black Mirror. I was wondering if they deliberately made it somewhat campy, actually... allowing the script to be self-aware by now in the 5th season. It was very Hannah Montana meets Black Mirror. There are so many examples of this. E.g., When the sister just plugs the robot into the computer and releases its full brain. A little too easy, maybe? Miley's acting was also very amateur and distracting. The woman who raised her was similarly very much a cliche momager without much motivation other than "I sacrificed a lot to raise you." Ok - well, why can't you calm down - looks like she already made you millions. And the psycho doctors with the ridiculous syringe (that of course got stuck into his own back) and security guard named "Bear"? It just seemed like a camp fest...which is fine. But was that their goal? The abuse of someone's consciousness (I think that was the core of the episode) was not really well-explored here. It has been explored in other BM episodes, so maybe they decided to go for Disney drama here.

2. 2 guys fuck in virtual reality - I didn't think this is much of a "gay episode" since it was a guy fucking a female avatar. The man with the female avatar, at best, was someone who was a bisexual bottom... or perhaps even trans. Or, maybe he was some other thing we haven't discovered yet since we don't have that technology. I thought the story was pretty interesting though it felt like it went on for too long. There wasn't much to explain why this happened... or maybe I missed it. I'm not sure I could really buy the "I tried fucking everyone else online but only your dick really got me off" thing. I guess they needed it for the takeaway of "our brotherly love bond is what made your dick so special" or whatever. The bottom seemed like a sex addict - how he was pushing for it constantly (Jack Twist? Jack Nasty!). The more I thought about it, I guess it was kinda "gay" because they had an emotional bond , albeit in different bodies. It was a cool idea. Long episode for one idea, though. Also, I don't see why he couldn't tell her he was fucking someone in virtual reality when they hadn't fucked in 3 weeks. Would a woman really care? Any woman who gets upset that their partner jerks off to porn is living in 1950 & the same is probably going to happen when VR gets better. So, that scene just annoyed me.

3. Smithereen - I really liked this one because it had a ticking clock & more suspense than the other two which seemed to drag more. I love Andrew Scott. He was great in this. What I really loved about this (and nobody really commented on it) was the absolute insistence of the staff not allowing the CEO to talk to Andrew ....and the fact that was all he wanted. He went through this whole thing just to have a 10 minute phone conversation. I wasn't surprised that they played the angle that Smithereen knew more than the FBI. I've seen that already in other shows where CIA agents joke that FB started with them altogether ("they did our job for us"). But all this angst and fighting over letting someone have a phone call? I think it's just a great story-line because it reflects so many c-level people and their minions who try to protect them from everything and freak the fuck out when anything isn't going perfectly. (I don't think Black Mirror is here to comment on Corporate America, but maybe they did intend this to get message through) The Andrew Scott character didn't know what to do with his grief...which turned to anger (often does) and he had it laser focused on that company and its CEO. He never wanted money, which was obvious all along. The COO actress was perfect. All the cunts in that room were exactly the way they are in real life. So, this one was my favorite of the 3 this season.

What fresh hell is that R40 ??? Beautiful Dylan paired with a grandpa, and the kissing! The Kissing !!!!

r108, most women would totally care and feel it was a betrayal.

The agreement is bound to dissolve since one of the guys is clearly in loved with the other. The game provides the an outlet to what clearly is forbidden in their real lives. Eventually, the guys will develop more attachment as they years pass by.

My question is, do they even see each other in person anymore? Or is their relationship solely virtual? Probably, huh, as he wasn't at the birthday party?

r112, would you want to spend any time with the married one in person? He's such a drag.

I think the only thing that was missing this season was a really nice, horror one. We've got relationship melodrama, suspense (with a bit of a twist thrown in), and high tech comedy.

3 episodes really didn't do it for me- they really needed 5. None of these had the impact that the previous seasons did- as the poster mentioned above, even, "Bandersnatch" had that moment of dread when the actual show becomes "self aware". I had to stop watching for a day because I was so creeped out.

Ep 1 was the best, but the ending was too American.

I really liked the third one with the pop star.

Call me crazy, but I would totally buy that foul mouthed Ashley Too version. And I am not even a Miley Cyrus fan.

Same here r117.

R110 - porn or virtual reality? What’s the betrayal? How are they different? Would it be ok if he fucked a computer controlled avatar?

It does feel a little less bleak than the other anthologies. The Miley ep was down right sugar coated despite the dark coma plot. Striking Vipers was probably the best with a commentary on what is gay and what is straight as well as what people will do to maintain a marriage. There is a point in the show (not to spoil it) where one of the three characters has a realization. You can see it in their eyes - such good acting.

since r108 laid it all out - Striking VIpers - it is so much more than what you say. You can see Anthony is bored in his life. A "this is it" moment. Despite the virtual sex story - when the two men come together to see if they are "gay" they decide to kiss. When the friend pulls away from Mackey and says "nothing" you can see that it is not nothing to Mackey and he realizes he is gay.

I thought her aunt extracting the music from Miley's comatose brain was just about the most horrific thing I've ever seen on this show. And the scene of her changing the hard rock (?) music into something positive via digital manipulation was outright wicked.

Why the 2 dudes didn’t have a hardon while cybersexing? Not realistic.

I doubt they could have shown that, but I definitely thought about them sporting boners. They'd've cum in their pants as well.

I assumed the sex was in their brains like all the other physical activities during the game.

I thought so too - like they had an orgasm in their head - but they didn't need their dick or a boner for it. The VR just gave them the sensations and the orgasm somehow.

They did have a hard-on. When Mackey went to sleep once immediately after, his wife asked him about his erection.

Eric Forman had a boner?

R127 is right. He had a boner when he went to bed. And no, Eric Forman was in "Smithereens" not "Striking Vipers".

I really liked the ending of the 'Smithereens' episode with the montage to Can't Take My Eyes Off You.

So who got shot in the 'Smithereens' episode?

Striking Vipers = A+++

Smithereens = B

Ashley Too = meh

Regarding Striking Vipers. I think some have missed the part that Stiking Vipers was supposed to be a fighting game and absolutely everything was limited to play out in the player's minds. Otherwise the player would have suffered actual physical bruises, cuts, and broken bones, etc. The same goes for the sex within the game. The boner, or boners, were a result of remembering what happened while playing the game.

Sorry, was limited to play out in the players' minds.

Ashley Too had some great, and so called thought provoking, moments.

- Ashley Too pointing out that the sister only listens to music her mother liked (an A.I. being able to come up with this conclusion after a few questions).

- Ashley Too literally pulling the plug to end the real Ashley's life, because that's what she would've wanted.

- the already mentioned scene of Ashley's aunt editing Ashley's creative thoughts into something more sellable.

[quote] So who got shot in the 'Smithereens' episode?

I thought it was rather telling that Billy Bauer (Topher Grace) went immediately back to meditating. Didn't really care for either of them.

But then Chris didn't care for Billy and his own problems either and cut him off when Billy started to ramble about his problems.

If you watch season 1 and then compare it to season 5 you can really see how they have dumbed it down. Disappointing.

In season 1 it was still a UK production. At season 5 it was produced by UK and US. Draw your own conclusion.

I thought they handled the co-production well when they initially moved to Netflix. Some of their best episodes come from this era (Nosedive, USS Callister, San Junipero, Shut Up and Dance) and the first two seasons definitely had weaker episodes (The Waldo Moment). It's just that their episodes had to be stronger because there were fewer of them. That's changed now though. The Netflix seasons could get away with weaker episodes because you at least had one or two, or even three spellbinding ones to make up for it. Season 5's a different story because the weaker episodes outweigh the stronger one.

One of the friends is clearly bisexual or gay in Striking Vipers. You don't tell your best friend you love them unless you mean it.

Season 1 ep one - a man kidnaps the princess and threatens to kill her unless he fucks a pig on live TV - so he does it and it turns out the whole thing was a hoax - Seaons 5 Miley Cyrus is put in a coma and her evil aunt mines pop music from her head - saved by two teen girls and ends with Miley singing head like a hole...Yeah it was WAAAYY darker season 1.

whoa my spelling and grammar. But you get the gist.

[quote]Unless his pecker is white, that was a blatant cock sock on Mackie. Disappointing.

R13, are you fucking retarded? OF FUCKING COURSE he was wearing a cock sock, you moron: this is Hollywood[-ish], not a goddamn porno film!

r143 I want to slap your rude ass through time and space. But I won't, because you're nothing but common trash.

I thought the point of Striking Vipers wasn’t gay or trans or straight.

It was that sexuality is complicated and technology is only going to make it more so.

r145 Yes, but it also became a bit of the former once they met in real life. Also, they never switched genders in the game, so it was obviously some commentary on gender identity and sexual orientation in there as well.

The episode should have been called Giant Cocktease

[bold]Anthony Mackie on How 'Black Mirror' Episode Conveys an "Idea of Bromance"[/bold]

[quote]Exploring virtual gaming's impact on intimacy and sexual identity in 'Striking Vipers,' the actor hopes audiences will use the episode to "reflect on themselves and their ignorance."