'Black Mirror' returns to a tenser, more isolated world. Here's why it shouldn't lean into post-pandemic fears.
The title of Black Mirror has two meanings. First, it refers to the reflective surface of a powered-off screen, nodding to the technological paranoia that runs through almost every episode. Secondly, it might as well be Charlie Brooker’s mission statement. As a satirist, he puts mankind’s darkest, ugliest qualities on full display: our pettiness, our complacency, and our seemingly limitless capacity for self-destruction.
Daniel Lavery, in a humor piece for the now-defunct The Toast, summed up what he and other Black Mirror detractors thought of the show in one pithy sentence: “what if phones, but too much.” From his perspective, Black Mirror used overwrought melodrama and weighty, pretentious trappings — expressed here through parody episode titles including “Grendel’s Mother Pays a Visit at Tea-Time” and “The Final Flight of Marie Templeton” — to gussy up stale observations about TV and smartphones.
The best episodes of Black Mirror, on the other hand, go in their own direction, guided by themes and commentary but not beholden to it. “USS Callister” is a clever, frightening look at the way tech culture coddles the male ego, but it’s also a thrilling Star Trek homage by way of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream - and if the viewer prefers it that way, that’s all it needs to be.
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