Review of Loch Henry

Black Mirror: Loch Henry (2023)
Season 6, Episode 2
6/10
Strong as a mistery, meh as a Black Mirror episode
15 June 2023
'Loch Henry' is a stronger episode than 'Joan is Awful' by itself, it's well paced and it actually gets you on the edge of your seat for a good chunk of the runtime. However, it misses a key part that made this show so special: the commentary about technology is thin as paper, and that eerie feeling that most of the episodes had up until season 4 isn't there, at least not for the same reasons it did before.

I thought the point of this show was to warn you, or to scare you about the state of our reality concerning technology and our relationship with it; besides a critique about how the media and most of us treat serial killer real stories, to the point of idolizing, or to fetichize those situations (which is the true, and the stronger part of the episode as a sort of 'black mirroresque situation'), there isn't many characteristics on this 55 minutes of television that made me reflect about the themes this show did in the past.

The twist is fine, though.
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