Ryan Britt Jun 7, 2019
We tend to think of the Netflix anthology show as dystopian, but maybe Black Mirror is more upbeat than everyone thinks.
This article contains spoilers for Black Mirror through season 5.
Binging Black Mirror from the beginning can be dangerous for your emotional health. Anyone who has done this with the first two seasons knows this is true. You can’t watch the pig sex in “The National Anthem,” Jodi Whitaker commit adultery in “The Entire History of You,” and then, Jessica Brown Findlay get brainwashed in “Fifteen Million Merits” without starting to dread the pervasiveness of certain societal and technological trends. And yet, something has happened to Black Mirror since that first season. At some point, the darkest sci-fi show of them all, actually became… optimistic?
The pseudo-minimalism of Black Mirror season 5 might, at a glance, seem like a return to form. Like season 1, there are only three episodes,...
We tend to think of the Netflix anthology show as dystopian, but maybe Black Mirror is more upbeat than everyone thinks.
This article contains spoilers for Black Mirror through season 5.
Binging Black Mirror from the beginning can be dangerous for your emotional health. Anyone who has done this with the first two seasons knows this is true. You can’t watch the pig sex in “The National Anthem,” Jodi Whitaker commit adultery in “The Entire History of You,” and then, Jessica Brown Findlay get brainwashed in “Fifteen Million Merits” without starting to dread the pervasiveness of certain societal and technological trends. And yet, something has happened to Black Mirror since that first season. At some point, the darkest sci-fi show of them all, actually became… optimistic?
The pseudo-minimalism of Black Mirror season 5 might, at a glance, seem like a return to form. Like season 1, there are only three episodes,...
- 6/7/2019
- Den of Geek
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