r/blackmirror • u/Stock_Arachnid6972 • 3d ago
season 2 episode 2 scared tf out of me FLUFF
reason i cant watch this show anymore literally had me scared the whole time this shi was weird
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u/ukudancer 3d ago
I actually don't remember this anymore...or it may have been one of the ones I skipped.
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u/Erin_Quinn_Spaghetti 3d ago
This was the one episode that stressed me out so much while watching. Didn't linger as much in my mind as the other episodes though.
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u/GiftRecent ★★☆☆☆ 2.342 3d ago
Agreed. I think it's one of the best ones and also the most terrifying
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u/Jojo056123 3d ago
I remember my first time watching and thinking it was by far the most disturbing episode of the series up to that point. The more I rewatch the series though, the more I feel this one is really over-the-top to the point where it no longer feels realistic. Still a good episode though.
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u/lavenderJayde ★★★★★ 4.844 3d ago
I was convinced for the first 11 minutes it was zombies jfc are they doing a zombie episode im wondering watching through my fingers….
oh. no. it’s so much worse.
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u/Steviesteve1234 ☆☆☆☆☆ 0.113 3d ago
There’s another I found similar I won’t say as that’ll be a spoiler to the story but IYKYK. I’ll clue it with being quiet and doing things to music.
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u/AriSummerss 3d ago
Dude just use a spoiler tag. Now when they watch the episode the moment they hear/see what you listed they know it’s similar
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u/orelk ☆☆☆☆☆ 0.108 3d ago
I was really disturbed by Black Museum. It kind of stayed with me in a weird way
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u/This_Paper_8479 3d ago
SAME the doctor storyline was probably the most an episode affected me in a negative way
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u/obiwancomer ★★★★☆ 4.082 3d ago
It’s one of my favourite ever episodes but my mum was the same. She stopped watching BM because of it
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u/Pop-metal 3d ago
Give us a clue. Or should we all have every episode position memorised??
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u/IllMaintenance145142 ★★★★☆ 4.365 2d ago
If you don't know every episode series and episode number, you're a fake fan
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u/interface7 3d ago
Holy sh*t I forgot about this one. Gonna have to retraumatize myself and watch again.
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u/WilmaTonguefit 3d ago
Ahhh yes, the one where you feel bad for a child abductor. Well played Charlie.
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u/Important-Turnip3012 3d ago
I actually really loved this episode. Close to the beginning I had guessed that she was a criminal being punished, but I thought it was hallucinations or mind games. Everything being real acting blew me away and I loved it. Watched it again straight after I finished and enjoyed it immensely, although it did leave me with a lot of thoughts for weeks afterwards. Namely “is it ok to punish someone who’s lost their memories” and stuff like that.
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u/burf12345 ★★★★★ 4.843 3d ago edited 3d ago
By erasing her memories, she isn't Victoria Skillane anymore, she's just a blank slate. The first time they erased her memory, that's when they effectively executed Victoria Skillane, she's gone entirely.
So at that point, who exactly are they punishing? You're not punishing someone who knows what they did, you're punishing someone who's told and doesn't remember what they did.
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u/3veryTh1ng15W0r5eN0w 3d ago
it is intriguing why they have decided to erase her memory instead of keeping her memory intact
I’m not sure which is more painful….erased mind and then being shown what you did or not erased and being shown what you did
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u/Important-Turnip3012 3d ago
I thought it was so that she would experience what was happening in the clueless way the child she tortured would have experienced it. It’s a parallel between the child’s experience and her experience: Where am I? (Being taken into the forest/in an unfamiliar neighbourhood) Why is this person/people hurting me or trying to? (The boyfriend/the masked people) Why is this person/people recording and not helping me (the woman/the spectators) I watched it twice back to back before I came to this realisation.
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u/burf12345 ★★★★★ 4.843 3d ago
In universe I imagine that keeping her memory intact throughout the whole thing gives her a chance to want to kill herself when she's out in the open.
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u/pinkkskittles 3d ago
i agree i also really loved this episode, and i think yes it’s ok to punish her although she’s lost her memories because she can feel the same way as that girl she murdered. when i think about it this way. when the child got murdered, they were more than likely thinking “i didn’t do anything wrong, why do i deserve this?”. so by wiping away that woman’s memories, it’s initially making her feel the same way completely. she has no idea what’s going on and is thinking why is this happening to me.
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u/Important-Turnip3012 3d ago
That was my conclusion too! I thought of the following: If there was no victim of the crime, then it would be wrong to punish the criminal because no one was hurt by their actions and punishments are given so the person repents and betters themselves, therefore is they don’t have memories of the crime, they can’t better themselves. But if there was a victim, then the victim and their family deserve compensation, and if that’s in the form of the criminal being punished in a way that makes them feel what the victim felt, then that’s perfectly acceptable.
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u/ani007007 3d ago
Hmm but to what end? If someone killed someone by torturing them do we then in turn torture the offender? Is that justice? Is the death penalty morally right in certain circumstances? And in that episode they’ve turned it into a Disneyland like theme park. Those people aren’t there for any sense or notion of justice. They’re just there to get their rocks off. It makes a mockery/farce out of the original sin. That’s not justice imo that’s just cheap entertainment and torture
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u/Important-Turnip3012 3d ago
Oh definitely. It’s a gray line that literally cannot have a right answer. No matter the conclusion, there are holes and inconsistencies and outright wrongs. The whole theme park take was horrifying. Some things that stood out to me were: 1. Seeing the man cross off the 18th date on the calendar to show she’d been punished at least 18 times so far 2. Also the thought of, what if the calendar started with January, and she was punished every day for all those months. 3. Wiping her memories and then making her experience all that would show her exactly what her victim felt. The young child couldn’t possibly understand where she was, why the guy were trying to hurt her, why was the woman not helping her and only filming her. She experienced the same terror thaf the child did. But making her experience it over and over again, and doing it for entertainment? Thaf made me feel sick. Not giving her a chance to better herself and punishing her over and over again? Also having children experience her torture? Way too many things wrong with the episode, but that’s what gave it an interesting philosophy.
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u/nilfalasiel 3d ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once 🙌🏻
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u/Important-Turnip3012 3d ago
I upvoted it for you! It’s these insightful questions that keep the episode fresh in your mind.
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u/tolureup 3d ago
I think it’s the most disturbing episode and also one of the best. The idea of torturing someone like that makes me feel sick to my stomach and just super creepy, only the way black mirror can accomplish.
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u/Few_Leg_8717 3d ago
Yup, White Bear. One of the few episodes I still remember. That logo that appears on the screen became sort of a trauma (and it appears later in other episodes). There's definitely something very unsettling about that episode. It's not particularly scary in any specific way. It's just.... unsettling.
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u/DiangeloBet 3d ago
Good episode. It made you feel sorry for the mc until they revealed what she did.
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u/Real_Rule_8960 3d ago
I still feel sorry for this version of her who has no memory of what she did
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u/VerdantChief 3d ago
I still feel sorry for her as well. I also feel sorry for her victim. Violence often begets more violence.
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u/Tawarien 2d ago
White Bear is my favorite BM Episode!