Ep. 521 - Black Mirror: Season 5
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The Filmcast
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
David regrets tricking Devindra into watching Dark Phoenix; Jeff shudders at the premise of The Act. The cast examine their reflections in Black Mirror. Is the battery draining too fast on the latest season of the sci-fi series?
Watch David's video essay on the Asian American references in Netflix's rom-com Always Be My Maybe.
Check out Jeff Cannata’s new D&D show Dungeon Run. Listen to David’s other podcast Write Along with writer C. Robert Cargill Devindra's new podcast Know More Tech, answering your question on the latest gadgets. Subscribe to David's Youtube channel at Davechensky.
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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What We’ve been Watching (~ 8:00)
David - Always Be My Maybe, I Am Mother, The Farewell, Cold Pursuit, The Act
Devindra - Dark Phoenix, Bosch S5
Jeff - Fleabag
Feature (~ 35:00)
Black Mirror Series 5
S5E1 - Striking Vipers
S5E2 - Smithereens
S5E3 - Rachel Jack and Ashley Too
Spoiler (~44:00)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast. |
| 0:22.5 | I am David Chen and with me are, Dupinter Hardware and Jirkanata. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to the show everyone. |
| 0:28.2 | What we are going to do on today's podcast, we have got some what we have been watching |
| 0:31.8 | to talk about, tell you about what we have been watching that we have recommended. |
| 0:35.1 | And then we are going to move on into an in depth review this week. |
| 0:37.4 | We are going to be discussing Black Mirror Season 5. |
| 0:40.7 | All three episodes just debuted on Netflix. |
| 0:43.6 | So we watch them all, we are going to spoil them all, talk about them later today on the |
| 0:47.8 | show. |
| 0:48.8 | That is what we have got on store for you. |
| 0:49.8 | You can find more episodes of this podcast at Slash Filmcast.com. |
| 0:52.0 | Email us at Slash Filmcast at gmail.com. |
| 0:56.8 | Now before we begin the episode, I do want to read an email that someone wrote to me, |
| 1:02.4 | Chris from Fairfax Virginia wrote to us at Slash Filmcast.com. |
| 1:07.6 | Chris writes in quote, on the last episode you mentioned apprehension about diving into |
| 1:11.6 | Chernobyl as if you weren't sure if you could take another depressing show right now. |
| 1:15.9 | Pretty sure Chris is talking about you Jeff. |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.1 | Well if you need a palate cleanser, I wanted to recommend a great comedic show on Hulu called |
| 1:23.6 | 1015. |
| 1:24.6 | Bad title, I know. |
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