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I have no idea what I saw there. This is not Black Mirror. It's a cheap comedy. And I did not laugh.

The entire sixth season. To deliver something so lame and visibly low-quality after such a long break is unbelievable. Apparently, the authors were told to remove the gloomy and serious presentation, thus making it more suitable for the masses. Especially since Corona.

There's really nothing oppressive or emotionally impactful about it like there was in earlier seasons. I think this season will most likely only go downhill.

If this season was not already be the last. Even the dystopian-technocratic atmosphere is completely missing.

This excellently made short series is atmospherically dense like Black Mirror. But it's not about the consequences of technological development. At least not directly. But about the collapse of the social order, the survival of people while everything around them no longer exists.

Each individual episode represents a certain period of time, e.g. episode 7, which shows a woman surviving 50 days after the collapse of society (one of the best episodes, by the way). The exception is the last episode 8, which shows the events 5 days before the collapse.

A much too unknown series that left a deep impression on me. Unfortunately the series only consists of 8 episodes, each about 15-25 minutes short. The short duration of the episodes is an advantage when designing a captivating episode. I hope there will be a new season with more episodes at some point. With episodes this short, there should be at least 15 episodes.

In terms of production (camera, editing, lighting, sound / music), the consequences are all equal and well done. This is an example of what the European film industry can offer.

Presumably some self-proclaimed ''patriots'' (Neoliberals with great love for the rich) who are delusional will see this series as socialist propaganda.

This episode is horrible and cringy. Cringy? For example the scene with Sergei and Lily in the beginning where they watched a film and Sergei confessed his love to her like a pubescent. And with tears in his eyes. Wtf? And even a pubescent would not confess his love like that.

It is also completely absurd how Kenton, who is not exactly the youngest, easily brings Jamie into his power. Even shortly after a car accident (episode 1.4). Whiplash? Age? Oh no, he's the terminator. As a young and externally healthy lad, Jamie lets himself be forced by Terminator Kenton into a bathtub without resistance. And then push under water without any resistance from Kenton. Without Kenton having a visible weapon in this scene. The portrayal of Katie is caricatural. Last scene is a joke. Lily was forcibly sent to a mental hospital. Of course, she was not tied up, although theoretically she certainly resisted being brought in, as she was accused of attempted murder or death by Kenton (car accident). So she lies sedated (with open eyes), not fixed in bed and Jamie can just climb through the window that is not secured by bars. And of course Lily is on the first floor.

Slowly it seems to me like a mixture between CSI Miami (pay attention to the clinically sterile but warm setting with '' cool '' computer sounds for every click) and Clarissa Explains It All.

And that's only the fifth episode. I can't understand how people can give this series and this episode full stars. Are viewers becoming more and more undemanding these days?

The movie started well but was starting to get tough. Especially towards the end (school) it went completely absurd. I don't mean beautifully and mysteriously absurd like before, but rather boring and weakly absurd. In the beginning it was like a good old Lynch film without Angelo Badalamenti score. However I was impressed by Jesse Plemons' (Jake) acting performance. He is known by Breaking Bad (Todd). The guy should appear in such strange films more often and he is predestined as a character actor.

USA (what is left at that time) is saving the world again. Unfortunately US-Propaganda, but it was masterfully staged audiovisually. However more visually because Hans Zimmer orchestra is mostly boring and generic and is used too much and too often in the film or in most Nolan-movies. The US propaganda was added subtly by Christopher Nolan.

7/10

Nice little japanese flick with a slow (not in a bad way) start. It's not a comedy but a tragicomedy with psychological horror elements. All in all, actually a sad film about loneliness, lack of warmth and loss of family members. Music here and there, unfortunately, in my opinion inappropriate, but typical for modern Japanese film.

Camera work is professional and clean without warm colors. Doesn't look amateurish.

But the film does not deserve a top rating - like very few films.

7/10 is enough and perfect for this film