TV #25 of 2025: Black Mirror, season 7 Another strong collection of the sci-fi anthology series, somehow still chugging along after all this time. (The first season came out all the way back in 2011!) As usual, some episodes are better than others, but 7×3 Hotel Reverie is the only one that doesn’t work for …
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TV Review: Black Mirror, season 6
TV #33 of 2023: Black Mirror, season 6 After four long years — twice the length of its previous longest gap — the infamous anthology series is back with another star-studded cast in five new twisted installments. Despite the program’s frequent focus on the dark underbelly of emerging technologies, I’ve always maintained that Black Mirror …
TV Review: Black Mirror, season 5
TV #21 of 2019: Black Mirror, season 5 I’ve always found the ubiquitous complaint that Black Mirror is a show about “what if phones, but too much” to be funny but facile, a reductive punchline for a series that interrogates human frailty through the lens of emerging technology as much as it critiques our devices …
Movie Review: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Movie #22 of 2018: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) This metafictional choose-your-own-adventure streaming special about a programmer’s breakdown while creating a choose-your-own-adventure game is an odd property to review. Is it a movie? A TV episode? A video game itself? I’ve chosen to treat it as the first option, since that’s what the crowd-sourced wisdom of …
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TV Review: Black Mirror, season 4
TV #3 of 2018: Black Mirror, season 4 I loved the opening and closing episodes of this latest anthology, and the rest were pretty great as well. (Only Metalhead didn’t really do much for me, but it was impressive enough on a technical level.) I feel like this show gets mischaracterized a lot – it’s …
TV Review: Black Mirror, season 3
TV #8 of 2017: Black Mirror, season 3 It’s now a Netflix original production, but Black Mirror is still every bit as great as its previous seasons, with the same focus on exploring the often-ghoulish potential ramifications of emerging technologies. As an anthology show there are obviously some episodes that are better than others, but …
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