The acclaimed anthology returns to Netflix with five episodes about technology, media and human nature, featuring stars like Salma Hayek Pinault, Zazie Beetz, Aaron Paul and Kate Mara.
Zazie Beetz, Samuel Blenkin, Monica Dolan, Paapa Essiedu, Josh Hartnett, Salma Hayek Pinault, Myha'la Herrold, Kate Mara, Annie Murphy, Aaron Paul, Daniel Portman, Clara Rugaard, Anjana VasanAs in previous years, each of the five new installments on Netflix functions as a standalone narrative, linked only loosely through sporadic Easter eggs.
The lone exception to this rear-facing perspective is the premiere “Joan Is Awful,” which takes a puckish, Charlie Kaufman-lite approach to the current moment. By that, I mean the exact moment that finds you sitting down to watch “Joan Is Awful” on Netflix: Its heroine, Joan , is an ordinary woman who opens up Netflix one evening to discover the service’s latest release is a Salma Hayek Pinault drama based on the most intimate details of the day she’s just had.
This set’s only other true sci-fi outing is “Beyond the Sea,” set in a stylish alternate version of 1969 in which astronauts can transfer their consciousnesses between their space-bound real bodies and their realistic robot replicas on Earth.has always focused on the intersection between human nature and scientific advancement, and its smartest chapters have zeroed in on the intricate ways that each feeds into the other.
If anything, the most pressing concern this time is what our frivolous entertainments are costing us. Alas, only “Joan Is Awful” proves a successful execution of the theme. “Mazey Day,” about a paparazzo chasing a troubled starlet in 2006, should in theory slot right into the present trend of entertainments reckoning with the most toxic excesses of aughts celebrity culture.
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