• Black Mirror: Common People

    Dark as fuck. And so brilliantly doing a send-up of the modern “subscription culture”.

    Both leads were great.

    This is the second thing I’ve seen Chris Dowd act in after The I.T. Crowd. So it was a complete departure for me.

    And he is incredible in it.

    Similarly with Rashida I’ve only seen her in The Office and Parks and Recreation.

    She too was great.

    They missed a trick in one scene though.

    When they thought that his wife’s implant was malfunctioning and they headed to the Rivermind building. They didn’t have Chris Dowd ask “Have you tried turning it off and on again”.

    This is the first time in recent memory I’ve needed to watch something light-hearted after seeing an episode of something.

    A bleak, subscription-based nightmare.

    And I loved it.

  • My single criticism of The I.T. crowd is this:

    “Track 4 Coffin Fodder”

    Coffin Fodder is the 9th song on the Nymphetamine album.

    That is all. 🙂