KSU White Bear Black Mirror Series Episode Discussion

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Watch “White Bear.” This is Season 2, Episode 2 of Black Mirror.

Wait! Special instructions for this episode though.

At about 21:00 minutes into the episode a character uses a drill, when this scene finishes, at about 23:00 minutes, hit pause and do the following: open a google document, no need to share it yet, although you will want to use it later. In this Google doc write the answers to two questions: 1. What do you think the director is trying to tell us through this episode, what is this episode about? 2. Make a guess, how do you think the rest of this episode will play out, like what is going to happen over the last 20 minutes.

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