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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter


Anyone else going to watch Channel 4's "so what if we don't have the rights to Black Mirror anymore?" series?
 
When does it start?
 
If you think it's good, I will find a way to watch it.
 
It looks like it'll be amazing but all I keep seeing is "coming soon".
 
Starts a week today.
 
First episode was pretty good. Robb Stark was all sarcastic and Scottish. Holliday Grainger is attractive. Story was decent if a bit standard. No reason not to watch it, really!
 
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Oops. I'll watch soon.
 
It seemed very cheap and all over the place, I thought it took place in an alternative 80s until they started talking about the internet. I hope they aren't all set in the UK.
 
Second episode was better most of the way through, I thought...then it just ended like that? I guess it was a magic planet? Or they both died and had a joint hallucination.
 
Yeah I liked the second episode a lot, it looked a lot better and the small cast actually worked with the story. I even liked the ending WHICH DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE SENSE OKAY??
 
It would really help after investing an hour into the programme, though.
 
So did his wife disappear at the end or was I reading too much into it?

Weird that I didn't recognise Tuppence Middleton until the end, guess I forgot she isn't really from Iceland.
 
I hadn’t thought of that, but she might have. And there I was thinking there was a solid ending.

It was an ok episode. Still pretty slow paced and light on dialogue. These haven’t been the Black Mirror level masterpieces I was looking forward to. Maybe they’d fare better on a second viewing.
 
It's just because she wasn't in that one scene I thought "DID THE WIFE DISAPPEAR?" but I think if we were supposed to think she did it would have been explicit.

The whole story was changed quite a lot from PKD's original short story: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-10-01/electric-dreams-the-commuter-recap-review/
 
Right. So it’s a mess.
 
Maybe not having a child somehow convinced his co-worker to have three!
 
Fourth episode looked really pretty and had some interesting stuff, but I found it all quite unenganging. And the ending was laughable?
 
Yeah I have no idea what the hell was going on in that last episode but it was very much a waste of Steve Buscemi.
 
How the hell have they managed to make four sub-par episode, when presumably there were quite different and diverse people working on each. Bizarre and very disappointing.
 
Next episode was written by Ron Moore and stars Anna Paquin so maybe that'll be good...?
 
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