[Smithy]

I watched Black Museum just because I liked the name still got three more to watch, I enjoyed it but at the same time it felt a little bit like a cop out?

Spoiler:

the first two stories could have easily been their own episodes, albeit more fleshed out and such, putting them in with the main plot of the convict being her dad made it feel a bit like a treehouse of horror episode? Idk I liked it but I think they could have just made a whole episode about him being the killer/not being the killer and then the outcome of it

omg ALSO something that annoyed me, when they start showing the pieces in the museum and you realise everything is all connected, I started wondering if any of the other pieces were linked from the episodes I hadn’t seen, and I was wondering about it so much I missed the start of his story I don’t like that they’re all connected now either, it would have been a lot better to keep them apart

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Dancing in Blizzards

I watched Black Museum just because I liked the name still got three more to watch, I enjoyed it but at the same time it felt a little bit like a cop out?

Spoiler:

the first two stories could have easily been their own episodes, albeit more fleshed out and such, putting them in with the main plot of the convict being her dad made it feel a bit like a treehouse of horror episode? Idk I liked it but I think they could have just made a whole episode about him being the killer/not being the killer and then the outcome of it

omg ALSO something that annoyed me, when they start showing the pieces in the museum and you realise everything is all connected, I started wondering if any of the other pieces were linked from the episodes I hadn’t seen, and I was wondering about it so much I missed the start of his story I don’t like that they’re all connected now either, it would have been a lot better to keep them apart

Spoiler:

It essentially followed the exact same, oddly specific structure as White Christmas (a frame story comprised of three sub-stories: the first sub-story, in which the narrator "helps" another character with technology which ends up causing them irreversible damage, doing little other than to establish the narrator as slightly dodgy; the second sub-story in which the narrator uses cookies to effectively wear a person down until they submit... technology which returns in the episode's climax to punish one of the characters in the frame story; and the third sub-story in which the focus shifts, either to the person the narrator is telling the story to [as in White Christmas] or to a different location [the hospital to the prison in Black Museum], leading to the resolution in which at least one of the two characters we've been following throughout gets their comeuppance, usually using the technology seen in the third sub-story)

tl;dr: I have no idea why they followed this structure again, but White Christmas did it better