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Black Mirror season 4 on Netflix: news and episode reviews
In the latest round of Charlie Brooker’s darkly ironic anthology series, humanism triumphs over nihilism — but only barely.
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December 29, 2017
In Black Mirror season 4, humanism triumphs over nihilism — but only barely
The Netflix series is at its best when it eschews dark twists for rare moments of warmth.
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December 29, 2017
Black Mirror’s “Black Museum” tour tells 3 stories of pain and forced symbiosis
"Black Museum" is basically a glancing sampler platter of familiar themes from other, better episodes.
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December 29, 2017
Black Mirror’s “Crocodile” plumbs our memories and drags out what lurks in them
Memory is a tool and a weapon.
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December 29, 2017
Black Mirror’s “USS Callister” turns white guy nerd fantasies into a terrifying trap
A man obliterates the fine line between loving something and fetishizing it.
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December 29, 2017
“Metalhead” is what people who hate Black Mirror hate about Black Mirror
The episode contains some brilliantly tense sequences, but is also a nasty little exercise in nothing much.
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December 29, 2017
Black Mirror’s “Arkangel” takes parental surveillance to its darkest, most obvious extreme
Directed by Jodie Foster, the episode makes a living nightmare out of parental controls.
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December 29, 2017
In Black Mirror’s bittersweet “Hang the DJ,” it’s technology versus loneliness
The episode shows the lengths humans will go to take the fear out of loving someone.