The Incomparable.

Episode 33070, January 2017.

Hi, everybody.

This is a bonus edition of The Incomparable.

I like to have our episodes not be two and a half hours long.

And sometimes that means I cut things out of episodes because, you know, you've got time that you want to spend

on other things. And a two and a half hour long podcast is too long, I think, in most cases.

But, you know, I don't want to judge. Some people love as much as they can get of anything we talk

about. And in this case, we talked about Black Mirror. That was what happened in episode 337. And this is a

sub-episode to that because basically we talked for so long about every single Black Mirror

episode that it wasn't going to fit. So instead, what we did, myself, John Syracusa, David Lour,

Brian Hamilton, our conversation about Black Mirror, the eight episodes that we didn't like as much as the five that we loved, is going to be put in this appendix episode.

So, if you want to hear us talk about more episodes of Black Mirror, here it is. I will

warn you, if we haven't talked about your favorite episode yet in the main show, it means we

didn't like it as much as the other five. So be prepared. If you're a big fan of white bear, you're going to be disappointed with what we think of it.

But hey, it's fun.

Everybody gets to have their own opinion.

Thank you for listening to The Incomparable and enjoy the rest of Black Mirror.

The National Anthem was episode one of series one of Black Mirror.

This famously is the episode that involves basically a an anarchist blackmails the prime minister of England into having sex

with a pig on live TV, or he'll kill a princess.

And this got in the news when it was reported last year that the Prime Minister of Britain,

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