Playtest is brilliant

Ratings for Season 3:

Nosedive: 8/10
Playtest: 8/10
Shut Up and Dance: 9/10
San Junipero: 9/10
Men Against Fire: 7/10
Hated in the Nation: 9/10

Episode 2 is shocking indeed. But episode one has the best message of all.
I'd still prefer eps 1 to re-watch it over and over.

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You know, I've been a member of IMDB for like a decade plus, but I just felt I had to write a review for this one.

I bet Pokemons in Go! don't look that cute anymore :)

And the whole set-up is quite believable, after all it's established that Japanese do like twisted stuff in their culture (games, anime, hentai manga, TV shows which would make most Westerners blush with clear erotic objectives, and so on and so forth).

I like and respect them, but I could totally imagine a weird game designer from Tokyo designing something like this. Or worse, develop army interrogation applications.

I mean, it's quite Lovecraftian in concept and execution, 21st century be damned!

Aside from the Season 2 Christmas episode, I'd say this is my favorite. I expected an ending like we got, since his mind was being screwed with, but I was definitely in my comfort zone of "it's over" when we got the real ending. . . if we really got an ending. *beep* for all we really know is his death was just part of the horror game.

Consider that the game (if there was a game) was designed to utilize his own brain to find his greatest fears and use them against him. Notice that his two major fears were 1. facing his mother (he thought she'd be behind the door) and 2. losing his mind like his father did. Then in the end he actually faces his mother, loses his mind, and "dies". Very possible he's still alive and we are the ones that never left the game.

Slight spoiler, but did anyone else notice the Bioshock reference in playtest?

playtest is the worst episode in the series. i don't know if you're trolling calling it "brilliant", but it is a really predictable and bad story. there are tons of movies that did the same thing and better. have you even watch some of them?

It was in fact more or less the opposite of brilliant.

It was completely predictable, unoriginal and boring. You could seriously guess what happens if you read the description for the episode. Too many plot contrivances to ignore and the double Inception ending was terrible. I'm genuinely mad because I was actually expecting something interesting, seeing as it's Black Mirror. A disappointment, it's basically a C grade horror movie.

And people saying how disturbing and/or scary it was? Are you taking crazy pills?! The only somewhat disturbing thing is how many people thought the episode was good.

Lunatic with production values, that's the worst kind.