#BLACK MIRROR WIKI LIST SERIES#
Arkangelīlack Mirror isn’t exactly a series that shies away from a heavy-handed metaphor, but the climax of this Jodie Foster-directed story – where a girl literally beats her mother to death with an iPad – is so hilariously on the nose that it has to be self-satire. But wait, what if those monsters were just normal people disguised by an augmented reality chip in the soldier’s head? Bet you didn’t see that coming, did you? Except you did, right from the very first frame. Men Against FireĪ soldier stalks the earth, murdering a number of grotesque mutant monsters. Especially the climax, where the man who controlled the bear suddenly finds himself homeless and truncheoned in a dystopian police state, which is a little bit of a leap. Points scored for preempting the rise in populist non-politicians – here, a wiseacre cartoon bear becomes an unlikely political figurehead – but points lost for execution. Photograph: Hal Shinnie/Channel 4 picture publicity A conveyor belt of Charlie Brooker’s worst excesses, this is an episode that feels as if it was made by a broken Black Mirror algorithm. There’s a montage of people crying and screaming to Radiohead’s most overblown song, and then it turns out that the boy was watching child porn all along. The hackers release the masturbation footage anyway. The end of this episode – in which hackers blackmail a boy for masturbating to porn – is the television equivalent of being beaten over the head with an especially stupid rock. Plus, and this is rare for Black Mirror, it’s so pleased with itself that you just want to punch it. The scene where she murders a blind baby with a hammer that’s still dripping with gore from his father’s skull remains the epitome of Black Mirror’s off-putting tendency to be nasty for the sake of it.Ī compilation of half-thought-out, sub-Saw morality tales that tread so much worn ground (a woman’s consciousness is transferred into an abandoned toy, a murderer is turned into a hologram that can be repeatedly electrocuted) that it teeters on the edge of self-parody. Andrea Riseborough plays a surly murderer forced to cover her tracks as she goes on another surly murder spree.
#BLACK MIRROR WIKI LIST UPDATE#
UPDATE (7/28/21): List updated to reflect added reviews and changing scores.An hour of television so relentlessly dour that it leaves nothing for anyone to cling to. Think we missed something? Sound off in the comments. In case of ties, those titles with more reviews ranked higher with the “Average rating” (under “See Score Details”) taken into account where episodes had the same score and number of reviews. We’ve updated the list to reflect the current Tomatometer score however, it’s worth noting that early episodes like “The National Anthem” and “15 Million Merits” have scores of 100% on fewer than 20 reviews, while more recent episodes, may not have perfect scores, but have more reviews - season 4, Episode 1: "USS Callister" 95%, for example, scores in the 90s, but on 38 reviews.
Rotten Tomatoes has crunched the numbers to rank the best Black Mirror episodes down to the worst. A choose-your-own-adventure interactive episode, the release was experimental, and its score of 72% reflected an uncertain reception. Season 5 dropped on Netflix in 2019 , tackling the familiar technology-as-terror ground, with an all-star cast including Topher Grace, Miley Cyrus, and Anthony Mackie. (The fact that all of these episodes are available to be played on Netflix, the innovative streaming giant known for obsessively monitoring our usage without really sharing what they find, should not be overlooked.)Ī chapter of this paranoia-fueled scarefest, “Bandersnatch,” was unleashed at the end of December 2018. It’s arguable that creator Charlie Brooker’s episodic anthology series Black Mirror is one of the scariest shows on TV - not because it relies on zombie attacks or murderous clowns, but because it shows just how easily phones, computers, and other advancing technology that we are increasingly dependent on can be used against us if we’re not paying close enough attention.
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