Black
Mirror USS Callister 9/10
I have
decided to try something different. Normally when I watch Black
Mirror I wait until I am done with the entire season before I write
about it. With this current fourth season I am gonna cover them one
at a time instead of being late as hell with my reviews (click these for reviews of season one, two, and three). The first episode of this
season USS Callister was very different from previous episodes which
I had no problem with. Two of the six from the previous season stunk
so I am fine with a change of pace. This one starts off weird as
hell. It is like some bootleg Star Trek with Captain Robert Daly
played by Jesse Plemons and his crew. They are about to get jacked by
an alien spaceship but with some dangerous orders are able to avoid
death. Meanwhile in the real world...
Daly
heads to work. That adventure was a virtual reality and his job where
he is one of the founders. He is hidden away from people and is
coworkers either talk mad shit to him or think he is a weirdo. There
is a technology that Daly created that lets players go to a world
where they can interact in space. Someone new named Nanette played by
Cristin Milioti arrives and Daly takes a liking to her. Another
employee tells her to keep a distance from Daly which he overhears. I
thought that sucked until that same night he stayed after everyone
left and snatched Nanette's coffee cup and swabbed it. He then tossed
it into a machine and began to “clone” her. After that I was like
“Wait a damned minute...”
The
crew of his ship are all his coworkers! Nanette wakes up wearing a
revealing outfit in a pod. She leaves and finds the rest of the crew
who she works with. They explain to her that she is not herself but a
copy as are they. They tell her that they play along with Daly as
Captain otherwise bad shit happens. Bad shit like being turned into a
giant alien bug or having to watch your child shot into space with
the possibility to have it happen when Daly wants. Nanette tries to
fight back against Daly who erases her face until she gives in. She
later figures out a way to attempt to communicate with the outside,
real, world as well as try to get Daly to break the rules he has laid
out for his wholesome show.
I
don't wanna spoil this episode because it did not end the way I was
expecting. I think the writers knew what me and others were expecting
from a show like Black Mirror and decided to throw a curve ball. This
was a really fun and crazy episode. Not super dark like some have
been. There has been some talk about social commentaries made during
this and blah blah blah. I ain't looking into it that much. I just
really liked this episode and hope that the rest of this season is as
entertaining. Please don't “Shut Up And Dance” me...
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