![]() Initially reluctant, she tries it only to realize that the AI would never replace the man she lost, but she nonetheless choses to stick with it. The Hayley Atwell- starrer explores the theme of sadness and grief where Martha (Atwell), a young woman whose husband, Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident discovers a new tech that allows her to communicate with an AI imitating her late husband. 'Be Right Back' (Season 2: Episode 1) Nothing ever replaces lost ones, not even AI. 'USS Callister' received positive reviews and was praised for its references to Star Trek. He escapes to the virtual world where he acts as captain of USS Callister where he is able to dictate the terms to his co-workers until one of the clones retaliates. The episode follows a brilliant game developer who is frustrated over the lack of recognition from his coworkers and vents it out by simulating a space adventure within a game using the DNA of his co-workers to create responsive clones of them. She wakes up everyday not knowing who she is and the same events are repeated. The starkness of the choice before the prime minister in this, the first episode of Black Mirror, is awful. The big reveal at the end shows that everything had been staged, and the day is her punishment as she and her boyfriend had tortured and killed a child. This is only scary if you’ve ever had to give a wedding speech which is, of course, pretty scary. There are people out to kill her, and as she runs from them she is horrified to discover that instead of helping her everyone has turned into a voyeur and are just filming her ordeal. White Bear starts with a woman (Lenora Crichlow) who wakes up an amnesiac and finds out that everybody is controlled by a TV signal. 'White Bear' (Season 2: Episode 3) Decoding voyeurism. While the show received mixed reviews, it scored points for the most mind-boggling show ever made.Īnd now for the episodes 19. The show sees "us play" Stefan (Fionn Whitehead), a game developer, trying to design a game with multiple choose-your-own endings and realizes that over the course of the series, he too is a puppet in a similar situation. Showrunner Brooker's most ambitious project to date. There are over various potential paths to view the work with five distinct endings.īlack Mirror: Bandersnatch Controlling the narrative. While the series consistently delivered surprises and hits, there were a few misses along the way, and ahead of the fifth season, we tried ranking all the episodes in the series from the worst to the best.īut before we do that, a special mention of 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch', an interactive film that gave viewers a chance to control the narrative and see the effects of the choices made. ![]() From 'Love, Death and Robots' to 'American Horror Story,' anthologies have a distinct way of storytelling, except none of them have reached the heights of 'Black Mirror'. The premise of the first episode, 'National Anthem', was a bonafide WTF moment, and the anthology series has kept those moments coming despite letting us believe that anything is possible in the dystopian tech-gone-bad milieu of its world.Īnthologies have become the most widely consumed content pieces of late and it's not surprising that they have become the rage. The Charlie Brooker-created 'Black Mirror' came as a shot in the head when it originally premiered on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in December 2011.
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