Black Mirror episode featuring bass player

[RichardW]

Anyone watch the Black Mirror series on Netflix? Latest season features an episode called "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" that focuses on music and includes one of the characters slogging away on her bass learning lines from Sonic Youth, the Pixies, etc.

Miley Cyrus is the featured star, playing a pop singer (not much of a stretch there), but she does a good job.

A very enjoyable episode in a great series that explores the darker implications of technology.

 

[Nashrakh]

I've watched all Black Mirror episodes so far, except the newly released ones. Will have to check them out now.

Seems to me like the episodes are pretty hit or miss - they're either great or pretty forgettable with not much middle ground. But I'll take their good ones over a mediocre TV series any day.

 

[filmtex]

I've watched all Black Mirror episodes so far, except the newly released ones. Will have to check them out now.

Seems to me like the episodes are pretty hit or miss - they're either great or pretty forgettable with not much middle ground. But I'll take their good ones over a mediocre TV series any day.

Yep. Same here. The latest season is really hit-or-miss, but even the fairly mediocre Miley episode is better than network fare. At least for me.

 

[Oddly]

I wasn't too impressed with any of the latest episodes, but it's certainly fantastic to see a bass-player at all in a show.

 

[RichardW]

pretty hit or miss

agreed, though majority are "hit" for me. The one called Viper Strike had me rolling on the floor laughing. Seriously twisted.

 

[HubbardsFate]

Watched the Miley episode two nights ago...it was okay...not nearly as dark as a lot of episodes from past seasons, and I kinda tend to prefer the darker ones...

I was trying to figure out which make/model of bass that might be, but never did get a clear, flat view of the headstock, and therefore didn't get a good look at a logo. From the shape of the body and headstock, though, I was kind of leaning towards an Ibanez.

I was really disappointed to see only three episodes for this season...three episodes, I mean really, can you even call that a "season" of television?

 

[rickster4003]

USS Callister was the first one I saw, seems like a good series, more like a dark Twilight Zone.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Oddly enough I was watching a new Twilight Zone episode today where the lead character pretends to play bass to Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit.
He had the strap on wrong, so it was quite comical.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

USS Callister was a great episode!

Nosedive is also one of my favorites due to the fact that it’s not all that far fetched. Social rating systems are essentially already in place to a certain degree, unofficially, in the United States. China has, or is planning to, go full force with it to the point of being eerily similar to Nosedive. All in all, a very creepy dystopian episode.

 

[ProfFrink]

It's definitely an Ibanez SR of some kind, with black or iron pewter finish.

FWIW the bassist girl is depicted as an introverted, slightly disturbed, but also highly intelligent person, so it all kinda fits

 

[Smooth_bass88]

will check this out

 

[Jackcrow]

If you’ve ever watched the show “Shameless” there’s a character that is named “Gus Pfender” and is a bass player, although he is mostly shown playing guitar.

 

[Spidey2112]

I tried watching the series, from the start... after watching the second episode, I have a severe aversion to bacon.

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

I wasn't too impressed with any of the latest episodes, but it's certainly fantastic to see a bass-player at all in a show.

Yup, worst season by far. It wasn't bad, by any stretch, it was just average in a sea of awesome episodes. I thought the "Striking Vipers" episode was the best of the three because it did something new. The Ashley O episode is all kind of re-hashed tech fears they have done before, and better, while the other is just an 80-minute long don't text and drive advert.

 

[Jack]

I think in general the show is going downhill, they're just becoming less subtle. I think something like White Bear was a very clever near-future, and the near-futures are just getting less clever.

Still really nice to see a bass player on TV.

 

[Jokei]

The National Anthem was great, I think it's lost something since that series - but maybe that's a hard one to top.
I hope the actress got to keep the bass.

 

[Yonni]

I haven’t watched them yet but I’m hoping for great things after Bandersnatch. BTW Miley headlined Glastonbury dressed as Ashley O, her character from the latest series.

 

[beaglesandbass]

I think in general the show is going downhill, they're just becoming less subtle. I think something like White Bear was a very clever near-future, and the near-futures are just getting less clever.

Still really nice to see a bass player on TV.

Madison Davenport plays guitar in real life so the changeover to bass for a song or two probably wasn't too difficult.

 

[Yonni]

I think something like White Bear was a very clever near-future, and the near-futures are just getting less clever.

Or the future is now and more scary than we expected. Not being political about it, but who would have predicted 10 years ago (roughly when Black Mirror began) that Britain would leave the EU, the UK would be on the brink of breaking up and the US would be in talks with N Korea while at the same time on the brink of war with Iran?

Or, to think in tech terms, every new development has an exponential impact, meaning that change is accelerating. We can’t keep up. Just last week I read about a piece of software that scanned 3.3 million scientific articles and made connections between them which suggested new areas of research that no single scientist or even a team could have done in a lifetime. The mind boggles. How can a scriptwriter possibly write anything futuristic based on what we know now, when that knowledge could be superseded by the time they’ve finished a script?

 

[Oddly]

Excellent points, @Yonni.
I just read an article (which could possibly be a fake, of course) that the US military are using a laser scanner to ID people by heartbeat.
You've gotta wonder where it will all end.
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Well, probably a Terminator-style movie scenario where the AI decides we've no business on the planet. I can't honestly say I'd argue that.