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Holy sht! This was such an amazing Black Mirror episode. Where The Matrix meets The Truman Show, meets Alice in Wonderland and... the wizard of Oz... in a futuristic, yet somehow hauntingly historic setting. Hotel Reverie isn't just an episode-it's a layered experience. It dares to ask the question: what is real, and who gets to decide?

This bold episode is -in my humble opinion- an exploration of Simulation Theory-the philosophical idea that reality, as we know it, might be a sophisticated illusion. This isn't just about VR headsets or digital trickery; it's about the nature of consciousness, memory, identity, and how technology might hijack or even recreate them.

What is real? Do we have free will? Who is at the control panel in Streamberry universe? And if we wake up, aren't we just still dreaming?

Without giving anything away, Hotel Reverie pulls us into a reality so meticulously constructed that we are invite to question our own.

Buckle up....

People are judging this documentary on their own beliefs and opinions and not on the fact that this is a very well made and informative document. And that's such a shame. I fell a bit in love with the beautiful people being portrayed in this film. They ate all so well spoken and had the ability to inform me about the subject. There were heartbreaking stories and the moral of this documentary is that individuals have to make their own decisions when it comes to gender identity. No-body (pun intended) else should do that. No doctor, no parent. Only the individual.

Thank you makers, for producing this phenomenal, heartfelt film!

I saw the show on Dutch Netflix and it was very nicely dubbed in English, which I liked. Compliments to the actors who did that dubbing. Shows often get totally ruined by bad dubbing, but this was excellent.

For the show itself: time travel is my favorite subject and I really loved the unoriginal but lovely story. Unoriginal because we have seen this many times before.

Although I enjoyed the very well made and acted show and watched it almost in a single go, I was annoyed by a few things: * because of the difference in timelines, this show really, REALLY needed different actors with accurate ages for those timelines. You just can't let the male lead play a twenty year old guy. That felt so awkward. As well for the rest of the cast. In shows like German 'Dark' we have seen that it is very well possible to pull this of in a believable and congruent manner.

* the main lead was behaving somewhat stupid in different scenes which I found a bit annoying. He was a nice actor, but the writing and him playing his 20 year younger self didn't help... * Much repetition. At one point I almost threw my remote at my smart TV watching the gazillionst boy girl wedding dance kissing scene.

* Nice character development but dialogue just too long at times.

* I loved the twist, but hated the fact that I found out early on in the show in stead of at the end.

All in all a nice watch guys, and I might watch it again in the future on this timeline;).