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Dec 4, 2011 · Black Mirror is a UK science fiction horror anthology series produced (and primarily written) by Dead Set creator Charlie Brooker. The series is inspired by The Twilight Zone and is named for the reflection visible in a blackened digital screen.
- NightmareFuel
black mirror It gets modified in the episode White Christmas...
- Laconic
A page for describing Laconic: Black Mirror. Thematic Series...
- Trivia
In 2017, Brooker announced a series of Black Mirror novels...
- TearJerker
This is Black Mirror. Every episode is damn-near saturated...
- Characters
Character page for Black Mirror. For an index of the actors...
- Recap
A page for describing Recap: Black Mirror. Spoilers, all...
- YMMV
Nish (Letitia Wright) from "Black Museum" is Shuri in Black...
- Heartwarming
Hang the DJ features a couple attempting to defy a dating...
- NightmareFuel
A page for describing Recap: Black Mirror. Spoilers, all unmarked, are present throughout the subpages. Read at your own risk. Series One "The National …
- Arkangel
- Men Against Fire
- Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too
- The Waldo Moment
- Metalhead
- Mazey Day
- Crocodile
- Joan Is Awful
- The Entire History of You
- Nosedive
When looking back at the past six seasons of the Netflixseries, it became clear that there are no truly dreadful episodes. It therefore falls to Arkangel to fall on its sword and rank lowest on this list, not as a terrible episode of television, but just as a surprisingly dull one. Having Jodie Foster direct an episode was a big coup for the series...
One of the clunkier episodes in the Black Mirror canon, Men Against Fire takes an interesting concept and hammers it into the ground with exposition. Not only does this war-time tale drag out its mysteries long past its audience having guessed the twist, but it then has Michael Kelly explain it to us in painstaking detail for 10 minutes. As expecte...
It seems evident that towards the end of the show's run before its four year break, Brooker decided to experiment with tone and land more on the lighter side. Where this works in episodes like Hang the DJ, here it falls flat, with a mish-mash of tones colliding together to make one of the show's least memorable stories. Guest star Miley Cyrus puts ...
Ever since it debuted The Waldo Moment has been considered one of the lesser lights in Black Mirror's back catalogue. However, on a rewatch, there really is a lot to like. It's not just that the episode takes on an eerie level of prescience given the current state of global politics, and its inspiration, Boris Johnson becoming (and then resigning a...
One of the more divisive episodes, Metalhead switches things up more than the vast majority, in that it is dialogue-light, shot entirely in black and white and plays out mostly as an action thriller. It delivers on the concept, and it's to the show's testament that it makes these departures and takes these risks, but the episode still falls down in...
More than perhaps any other episode on this list, Mazey Day starts life as one thing and goes on to become a wholly different beast by the end. Without spoiling the twist, it really does come out of nowhere and upends all expectations - not only for this episode, but for Black Mirror as a whole. It also, unfortunately, leaves things feeling slightl...
Crocodile is one of the darkest episodes of Black Mirror to date, a gruelling riff on the Sandi-Noir which delves into the idea of spiralling escalation and how far someone would go to protect the life they have built. It's a visually beautiful, if still murky episode and the tension laced throughout is palpable. The ending is undoubtedly a divisiv...
It really didn't seem like Black Mirror could get any more meta than Bandersnatch - then Joan is Awful came along. A one-hour long joke at Netflix's expense, it proves to be a timely addition to the series right as the world grapples with regulating AI and creatives around the globe, and especially in the US, fight to retain their artistic autonomy...
Often considered a favourite from the Channel 4 years by fans, The Entire History of You is currently the only episode not to give Brooker a writing credit, with this instead coming from Succession and Peep Show creator Jesse Armstrong. This perhaps explains why it, at times, feels somewhat distant from the other episodes. The story, of memories be...
The first of the Netflix era, Nosedive explores social media and insecurities in a likeable, often excruciating road trip movie styling, which is fun if slightly unremarkable. It also doesn't help that Nosedive's plot is so close to the App Development and Condiments episode of Community - in fact, the similarities are often quite distracting. But ...
The programme then moved to Netflix, where four further series aired in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2023. A seventh series is set for release in 2025. Two related webisode series were produced by Netflix, and a companion book to the first four series, Inside Black Mirror, was published in 2018.
In Black Mirror, a protagonist might allow another person suffer from being ostracized due to being broken by society, but in Twilight Zone, the protagonist may very well see that invisible person and embrace them. Overall, Black Mirror is good at what it does, but it's no Twilight Zone.
Black Mirror is a trilogy of television dramas, loosely linked by the fact they're all dark comedies with themes of techno-paranoia and unease with the modern world. The name stems from the reflection that can be seen in the blackened screen of a switched-off glass screen (such as can be found...
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Featuring stand-alone dramas -- sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia -- "Black Mirror" is a contemporary reworking of "The Twilight Zone" with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world. Creator. Charlie Brooker. Stars. Wunmi Mosaku.
