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BLACK MIRROR SEASON 3 (NETFLIX)

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A  BLEAK  FUTURE  HAS  NEVER  LOOKED  SO  GOOD !!!

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The first two series of Charlie Brooker’s anthology served up some of the sharpest sci-fi in years. This year with the introduction of Netflix the budget has been upped resulting in some of the best production values on TV. The half dozen episodes of Season 3 are  a cult TV offering with “unhappy endings” that’ll leave you  fully entertained. This classic series revels in seeing people, usually unaware of their frightful destinies, powerless to halt the realizations of their fates. But for us the audience it is cathartic to watch them crash and burn !!!

Social Media.  Online Gaming.   Porn.  Virutal Worlds.  Philosophical Consequences of High Tech Warfare. And Social Media again……   are the themes of the six episodes.  Don’t let the big words and  bigger ideas fool you or put you off— the episodes are superbly scripted, extremely easy to understand and make a great impression on the watcher…

These new alt-future fables come with the same pointed warning: Beware the cost of technologies that dehumanize the human experience while purporting to enhance it.

Think of the episodes as 6 mini-movies which are so immersive that it will take you a while to return to normal once you’ve seen one. This crop of dystopian tales serves to remind us how terminally dependent we are on the iPhones, apps, gadgets, doodads, and next-gen inventions that may sooner “kill” us than make for better living.

This is MUST SEE TV (Warning: you may never look at your gadgets in the same way again !!)

If you haven’t subscribed to NETFLIX do so right away. This series itself is worth the Rs.650 per month !!!

 

SAUMIL BHANSHALI

 

 

Mr. ROBOT

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The best new show of the year !!!

Summer television was once the place where good (but usually very bad) TV went to die a merciful death away from the eyes of the public… and advertisers. It was the place networks dumped their undesirables and under-performers. Mr. Robot has single-handedly changed this emerging as the sleeper summer hit of the year. Its freshman season is compulsively watchable and the new obsession of millions of fans..

For the uninitiated, Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek (a definite Emmy contender) as Elliot, a hoodie-ensconced, disorder-riddled antihero with a penchant for hacking. Mr. Robot confronts the everyday realities of massive corporate greed, cyber terrorism, and the way the Internet makes us all very, very vulnerable.

Unafraid to move furiously fast and hypnotically slow at the same time, it’s the writers’ ability to go from zero to (ro)batshit in the blink of an eye that keeps us hooked. Deeply immersed in current events it’s a rare gem that is the dictionary definition of fresh. The show also relies extensively on its star Rami Malek whose performance is twitchy explosive perfection. The others at Fsociety and Ecorp are also phenomenal and I almost forgot to mention there’s Christian Slater too…

Creator Sam Esmail’s background as a “film nerd” certainly helps to enthrall us for the entire series. He’s a virtuoso at intrigue and misdirection and the whole TV show seems as if it was made for the big screen! A feat few can boast of….

At its heart, Mr. Robot is cyberpunk, the sci-fi subgenre set in a near-future world where the reality that exists within computer networks can feel more real than actual reality — if this sounds and feels familiar – its because this is the way most of us live now and more importantly how most of us have chosen to live now !! Whatsup YouTwitFace — if you get the drift…

“Democracy(Capitalism) has been hacked” — better login as soon as possible to find out how, why and by whom. Binge-watch just got its next Must-See member!

SAUMIL BHANSHALI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4fRXGyIak

STAR WARS – no further explanation required, just shut up and take my republican credits !!

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When the first Star Wars released on May 25th 1977, I was all of 12 days old !!! I watched the first one when I was 8 years old and that is my first clear memory of being mesmerized by cinema….

Star Wars has so profoundly influenced worldview that in the 80’s even President Reagan himself dubbed the Soviet Union as “the evil empire”…. Infact world over there are more than a few million people with Jediism as their listed religion. If you don’t believe this Wikipedia it. May the 4th is celebrated internationally as Star Wars day…..

On looking at the new trailer for the upcoming Star Wars (sequel) trilogy I couldn’t help but write about my fascination with this iconic franchise and urge anyone who still hasn’t seen the movies to do so faster than Hans Solo piloting the Millenium Falcon! You might have heard that it revolutionized special effects, ushered in the era of the modern blockbuster or any of a million things that are probably true but still downplay the film’s massive impact. If there is one truth in this world it is that the Star Wars films (all six of them so far) are worth your time !!

“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…. “ sounds as good today as it did 38 years ago !!!

The Force Awakens premieres on December 18, 2015 – Christmas is surely coming early this year……. Four months to go, better start camping out or queueing up soon !!!

SAUMIL BHANSHALI