black mirror

There’s a certain weight of expectation added whenever TV shows, of any kind, air ‘feature length’ episodes. More time, it’s assumed, has to equal better viewin... Read More...

Well, it had to happen eventually, right? ‘Men Against Fire’ was by no means an objectively bad hour of television. Quite the opposite. But compared to the prev... Read More...

If you were to try to come up with the archetypal Black Mirror story, chances are it would look a lot like one of the three episodes so far – an unrelentingly b... Read More...

So far on this series of Black Mirror we’ve had two episodes that were familiar, but near future in terms of technology and/or society. ‘Shut up and Dance’, how... Read More...

Once again, spoilers… it’s too good an episode to watch in the know. I mentioned in the previous review of ‘Nosedive’ that there wasn’t much evidence of a bo... Read More...

It feels slightly odd to welcome back Black Mirror. It’s been away long enough – 2 years since the last episode (the fantastic 2014 Christmas Special), and nearly 2 more to February 2013 before that since the last actual series – yet in the time since we last caught a glimpse into Charlie Brooker’s mind, it feels sort of like life becoming art. ... Read More...