Black Mirror

Interesting concept that stays compelling and offers some amusing choices (such as the use of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra as a soundtrack you can choose for the protagonist's actions). At the very least, the idea that you can go back and try to do things right is the kind of welcome shake-up that each new addition to Black Mirror really needs (e.g. San Junipero being ostensibly happy and a peak for the series that season 4 tried and failed to replicate with Hang the DJ). If nothing else, I did like Colin as a character to the point that I was a little disappointed that I'd ended up picking a path where he effectively disappeared before too long.

Interesting concept that stays compelling and offers some amusing choices (such as the use of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra as a soundtrack you can choose for the protagonist's actions). At the very least, the idea that you can go back and try to do things right is the kind of welcome shake-up that each new addition to Black Mirror really needs (e.g. San Junipero being ostensibly happy and a peak for the series that season 4 tried and failed to replicate with Hang the DJ). If nothing else, I did like Colin as a character to the point that I was a little disappointed that I'd ended up picking a path where he effectively disappeared before too long.

It is annoying how easily you can get locked into a certain path (never mind the constant fake-out endings), but I guess that's the risk you take. Now it's a question of how much I actually want to go back and revisit the choices I didn't take originally (especially the earlier and seemingly inconsequential ones) - seems like it'd be hard to know exactly how to do that without spoiling the whole thing for myself, like I need an actual map of the choices to cross off until I've effectively 100%-ed it like some open-world videogame - and then what would that say about me if I try every choice instead of simply cutting to the chase and looking up the path to a golden ending that might not even exist?

It is annoying how easily you can get locked into a certain path (never mind the constant fake-out endings), but I guess that's the risk you take. Now it's a question of how much I actually want to go back and revisit the choices I didn't take originally (especially the earlier and seemingly inconsequential ones) - seems like it'd be hard to know exactly how to do that without spoiling the whole thing for myself, like I need an actual map of the choices to cross off until I've effectively 100%-ed it like some open-world videogame - and then what would that say about me if I try every choice instead of simply cutting to the chase and looking up the path to a golden ending that might not even exist?

I had fun with this for the first hour, and then the re-looping began to bother me. At some point far into the story it didn't seem to matter which choices you made because after a few other pathways, you'd end up back at the same spot as you'd chosen the first time.

The choice of who jumps off the balcony, for instance, was really no choice since I'm guessing either choice would end up being a dream. I would have preferred choices with *real* consequences.

And the "ending" I had didn't seem like an ending. It just seemed to stop telling the story and I have no idea what ultimately happens. I'll have to rewatch and make other choices, especially early on, though I suspect that, after meandering around differently in the middle, we always end up with the same odd, abrupt non-ending ending. Has anyone already tried this?

P.S. The self-referencing Netflix options were great fun... the first half-dozen times.

I had fun with this for the first hour, and then the re-looping began to bother me. At some point far into the story it didn't seem to matter which choices you made because after a few other pathways, you'd end up back at the same spot as you'd chosen the first time.

The choice of who jumps off the balcony, for instance, was really no choice since I'm guessing either choice would end up being a dream. I would have preferred choices with *real* consequences.

And the "ending" I had didn't seem like an ending. It just seemed to stop telling the story and I have no idea what ultimately happens. I'll have to rewatch and make other choices, especially early on, though I suspect that, after meandering around differently in the middle, we always end up with the same odd, abrupt non-ending ending. Has anyone already tried this?

P.S. The self-referencing Netflix options were great fun... the first half-dozen times.