Charlie Brooker’s BLACK MIRROR is back! Jami, Esta, and Aaron review the latest season and each episode.
SEASON REVIEW
Esta: 🤩 – BLACK MIRROR was a breath of fresh, creepy air from a pretty, quiet summer. Even with only five episodes, it was still a home run of creative storytelling. Of course, my favorite episode must be about the awfulness of all of us. Sometimes the truth hurts while it stretches our imaginations in all the right places. The world needs more.
Jami: 🤩 – After a four-year hiatus, BLACK MIRROR is back with one of its strongest seasons ever! The new season takes on true crime addicts, celebrity-obsessed media, the dangers of centrist politics, and of course, technology, pointing more than one sword at its streaming network, Netflix. This is what BLACK MIRROR needed to keep fresh, delivering the most consistently well-written, directed, and produced a set of episodes since NOSEDIVE kicked off S3 in 2016.
AARON: 😊 – I’ve missed the darkness and absurd tech vision captured in Brooker’s BLACK MIRROR. While season six has some intriguing setups and payoffs, it gets a lower ranking from me thanks to one awful episode, BEYOND THE SEA. Even with that intergalactic misfire, I can’t wait another four years for another round of BLACK MIRROR. Please, keep them coming, Streamberry!
EPISODIC REVIEWS:
ESTA: E1 JOAN IS AWFUL 🤩
People love watching a series that makes them feel uncomfortable. Case in point, JOAN IS AWFUL. The best, most highly entertaining, must-see episode of BLACK MIRROR. Thanks to Annie Murphy and Selma Hayek, viewers can peel deep inside the show within a show playing on Streamberry (AKA NETFLIX). Creative, fast-paced, humorous jabs aimed at the METAVERSE and EULA’s. Don’t miss it.
JAMI: E2 LOCH HENRY 🤩
One of the most popular genres of podcasts and streaming networks alike is true crime. With that in mind, it seemed inevitable that BLACK MIRROR would eventually skewer this type of content, one that parent company Netflix churns out at an alarming rate. LOCH HENRY has all the ingredients of what a popular true-crime documentary would have, and it’s far better than 80% of those. This is a wild and unexpected tale, the likes of which should show up on MY FAVORITE *FAKE* MURDER.
ESTA: E3 BEYOND THE SEA 😊
BEYOND THE SEA was a creative “replica” of a murderous tale gone wrong. How can one episode mix lusty French songs and dance into a complete catastrophe in space travel? It was indeed a slow burn to a disastrous, chilling, bloody mess that all started with a simple link share. Be forewarned…painting can be very intimate.
JAMI: E4 MAZEY DAY 🤩
MAZEY DAY delivers a Golden Age of Hollywood tale cleverly concealed beneath a layer of what BLACK MIRROR does best: Point out something you already know is terrible for society and then take it to an extreme, horrifying level. E4 is probably the most comedic of S6, but maybe that’s because all my years of living Hollywood adjacent have turned me deeply cynical. Listen carefully in the first few moments to catch when this episode is set. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
AARON: E5 DEMON 79 😊
DEMON 79 opens with a 70s-like horror tone and only gets crazier from there. The demon theme gives this episode a DEATH NOTE vibe mixed with a plot from M. Night’s KNOCK AT THE CABIN. Both elements combine for a chilling take on racism and mental health with an Emmy-worthy performance by Anjana Vasan as Nida.
Season six of BLACK MIRROR is available on Streamberry… we mean Netflix.
