Synopsis: In a world where everyone can use a social media app to rate each other on a five-star scale, Lacy Pound (Howard), who has a 4.3 rating, is constantly trying to please others to up her score. Nosedive ( Season 3, Episode 1) Image credit: Black Mirror/ IMDbĬast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve, James Norton It is a tribute to the science-fiction genre with multiple Star Trek Easter eggs. ![]() Inducing bouts of laughter, USS Callister is one of the few light-hearted Black Mirror offerings. When one of the avatars wages a mutiny in the virtual world, hidden motives are unearthed.Ībout the episode: The episode stars a powerful cast that aptly takes viewers behind the horrors of hyper-realistic video games. In the game, Robert commands a spaceship called the USS Callister, whose crew is made up of clones. Feeling undervalued at his job, Robert takes revenge by creating clones from the DNA of his colleagues and trapping them inside his version of the Star Trek-themed game. Synopsis: Gaming developer Robert Daly (Plemons) is the co-founder of Callister Inc, which develops a multiplayer game called Infinity. USS Callister ( Season 4, Episode 1) Image credit: Black Mirror/ Photo by Jonathan Prime / Netflix – © Netflix 2017/IMDbĬast: Jesse Plemons, Jimmi Simpson, Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen However, things begin to take a deadly turn when he is injected with a chip to play the virtual reality game. Coming to his rescue, a local, Sonja (John-Kamen) introduces him to a job-finding app where Cooper comes across a video game-testing gig. Synopsis: Cooper (Russell), who is travelling around the world, realises he has no money left after arriving in London. Over the course of the five seasons, airing since 2011, the Netflix show has won six Emmy Awards and received 10 BAFTA nominations among several other accolades.Ĭast: Wyatt Russell, Ken Yamamura, Hannah John-Kamen Joe Wright, Dan Trachtenberg, and James Watkins are among the most notable directors to helm Black Mirror episodes. ![]() Similarly, one of the season 6 episodes will feature Salma Hayek. The series boasts a stellar cast that includes Daniel Kaluuya, Jesse Plemons, Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson and Tom Cullen. From a hyper-realistic VR video game transforming a longtime friendship, to a hostage crisis developing at a social media company, the fifth season, which was released in 2019, left fans across the globe eagerly waiting for the upcoming instalment. The episodes narrate stand-alone stories, each with its own set of characters and conflicts. I’m ranking all of them by quality and not-so-subtly hinting at the terrors I personally find most terrifying and touching.Deriving inspiration from contemporary social issues, Black Mirror shows a dystopian future where cutting-edge technology adversely affects human nature and controls their minds, behaviour and personal lives. There are now six seasons in the books for this inventory of technocratic tall tales. This doesn’t mean I’m against conducting (inexact) science experiments, er, rankings. ![]() It simply wouldn’t be fair to the highs of Black Mirror to drag it down with its strange lows. Dystopia is a theme that usually rings true - you just have to execute it well.įor example, I wouldn’t necessarily directly compare one of the more uplifting love stories in modern media to a grating bulletin about ferocious werewolves. ![]() It puts prototypical normal people through the seemingly inconceivable and keeps us on the edge of our seats.īut not every episode in this now legendary anthology series is created equal. DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU WISH TO KEEP YOURSELF FRESH!īlack Mirror captivates us as the spiritual successor to The Twilight Zone because its horrors are both believable and stretch our imaginations. WARNING: HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE ENTIRE BLACK MIRROR SERIES.
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