Bumpety bump for I have seen season 5 as well, finally.
As others have said, they were all cool but the "mindfuck" factor was missing. Enjoyable and at times not so serious, but not mind bending as previous episodes were.
STRIKING VIPERS was weird, slow in the first part then starting the action in the middle. I know that you have to suspend disbelief, but I wonder how could a programmer come up with fully interactive and virtual human bodies, to the point that they can feel pleasure, and not realize that this would have been exploited. C'mon, "the internet is for porn" anyone?
they should have made them asexual, just like not-Todd / not-Matt Damon did in the USS Callister episode.
SMITHEREENS was interesting, I didn't find it overly long. "Oh, look, there's Moriarty, what he's gonna do?"... and of course he's gonna do a Moriarty again. Perfect psycho rant, and probably with a bit of unintended sarcasm / irony, when he flipped out about not being able to discern one's age anymore (when he realized he kidnapped a young intern).
Who else figured that the CEO of Smithereens had to be an important and older businessman? I was surprised to see he was a young and easy going one. Basically it all came down to a parable of "don't spend too much time obsessed by social media".
RACHEL, JACK AND ASHLEY TOO was weird, but enjoyable. The shift from serious to wacky was done nicely after all, and I had legit laughs in seeing the doll ranting and cussing without all the sugary filters. Once again a sarcastic commentary on the plastification and planned commercialization of music, and I too thought of the Dio and Zappa hologram, and I hope that it won't become a trend even more developed in the future.