Rate the Black Mirror Episode: S6E1 - Joan is Awful

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Screen buzzes, cracks.

Looks like we got a new lowest ranking in town! And onward to the latest season. Made 4 years after Season 5, it's got (from what I see) quite lukewarm reaction, though not without a few highlights. Let's see how B8 likes it.
It follows Joan (Annie Murphy) as her life is adapted in real-time into a Streamberry television series starring Salma Hayek. As the broadcast seems to only cast Joan in the most negative light, she seeks a way to cancel the television show with any means necessary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_is_Awful

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Previous ratings:
9.04 - S1E2 - Fifteen Million Merits
8.97 - S2E4 - San Junipero
8.86 - Special - White Christmas
8.62 - S4E1 - USS Callister
8.37 - S2E1 - Be Right Back
8.19 - S4E4 - Hang the DJ
8.13 - S1E3 - The Entire History of You
7.81 - S3E6 - Hated in the Nation
7.12 - Interactive Film - Bandersnatch
7.11 - S4E6 - Black Museum
7.06 - S2E2 - White Bear
7.02 - S3E1 - Nosedive
6.86 - S3E2 - Playtest
6.73 - S5E1 - Striking Vipers
6.69 - S3E3 - Shut Up and Dance
6.23 - S4E2 - Arkangel
6.22 - S1E1 - The National Anthem
5.82 - S5E2 - Smithereens
5.71 - S3E5 - Men Against Fire
5.61 - S4E5 - Metalhead
4.88 - S4E3 - Crocodile
4.83 - S2E3 - The Waldo Moment
4.44 - S5E5 - Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too
"A blank page or canvas, his favorite. So many possibilities."
- RIP Stephen Sondheim, 1930-2021
5/10
Congrats to 2020 GotD Guru champ azuarc!
6.3
1/10

One of the most cringe and nonsensical episodes of TV I've ever had the misfortune of watching.
I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
Halloween 2023 - https://letterboxd.com/crossbonesgt/list/halloween-2023/
9.5
we're all buds ~jc~
<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
3.5/10
SSBM_Guy
"[Freud] started his scientific career by trying to explain the sexuality of a fish. And he failed."
still 7, still very fun
8 out of 10
Well done to azuarc for finishing 67 places above me in the 2020 GOTD Guru Contest!
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9/10
Aw what, Ashley Too wasn't worse than Waldo. Probably a six for me.

Gonna go watch Joan brb
Hi. I wanna play you something.
8/10
~Jacksonville Jaguars~
7.5/10
It's not so impossible!
Waldo was definitely the worst, Ashley too wasnt bad.
...I should've listened to Snake. Embarrassing, directionless, convoluted. The 'twist' was something I naturally inferred while watching and thought could at least be fun to speculate about, but nah apparently that's what the entire thing was building up to. Wasted potential is a huge peeve of mine, and this was 40-odd minutes of exclusively that.

Joan is Awful - 2/10 somehow worse than Black Museum
Hi. I wanna play you something.
7

mostly just because I liked Annie Murphy
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