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    <em>Black Mirror</em>: 'Crocodile' Is a Nihilistic Nordic Noir

    The third episode of Season 4 tells a muddled, grim tale of surveillance and memory-mining.
    by David Sims Dec 30, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Netflix

    Sophie Gilbert and David Sims will be discussing the new season of Netflix’s Black Mirror, considering alternate episodes. The reviews contain spoilers; don’t read further than you’ve watched. See all of their coverage here.

    Sophie, I agree on “Arkangel,” which I initially admired for its indie-movie approach, though it couldn’t follow through on the advantages of that form. For the episode to work, I needed to be invested in the mother-daughter relationship, which Jodie Foster’s direction tried to enhance—the story was very light on dramatics and pretty real. But then the technology kept those characters so separate (as part of the helicopter-parent metaphor)

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