Well, the best thing I can say about Joan Is Awful is that it has a premise that sounds good and appropriately Black Mirror on paper. There's a woman whose life is apparently becoming a TV show on a Netflix-like platform, with deepfakes and AI being used to depict her day-to-day life in an unflattering way.
It's fun enough, but under-explains and handwaves many intricacies of the whole premise, which just keeps raising questions that take a little too long to answer. I was wondering if it would go full Charlie Kaufman with some extra layers, and it did... in like, the last five minutes. At that point, it felt rushed, like it would've been better off just not going down that rabbit hole at all, if it didn't want to spend sufficient time on it.
It's still watchable, and not quite a nadir for Black Mirror or anything, but I was still a tad disappointed. I hope the other season 6 episodes prove more engaging.
It's fun enough, but under-explains and handwaves many intricacies of the whole premise, which just keeps raising questions that take a little too long to answer. I was wondering if it would go full Charlie Kaufman with some extra layers, and it did... in like, the last five minutes. At that point, it felt rushed, like it would've been better off just not going down that rabbit hole at all, if it didn't want to spend sufficient time on it.
It's still watchable, and not quite a nadir for Black Mirror or anything, but I was still a tad disappointed. I hope the other season 6 episodes prove more engaging.