Didn’t like: Certain heavy-handed choices
Black Mirror does sometimes run into an issue where the set-up is better than the twist. Sometimes, decisions are made regarding characters that don’t seem like they were entirely well-considered. Also, while most of those period-specific details we mentioned earlier are cleverly used, there’s one in “Beyond the Sea” that feels surprisingly clichéd. No spoilers here, but let’s just say there are other ways to telegraph the tumult of late-1960s California without invoking the same old counterculture villains.
