Black Mirror ’s new, five-episode sixth season, its first since 2019, is very different from what preceded it. And the show’s creator has, to his credit, realized that his sci-fi nightmares no longer have the same effect they once did. But the world has changed in the past 12 years in fact, few aspects of our global culture have changed as much as the intertwined industries of television and tech. The tone was almost always grim, with endings that could make you feel viscerally ill and the black humor Brooker had honed while working on satires like Brass Eye and Screenwipe twisting the knife. While genre conventions varied from one standalone episode of the anthology series to the next, and not every story took place in a dystopian future, Black Mirror could generally be described, in its first five seasons, as a science fiction show about the perils of technology. As creator Charlie Brooker wrote when the series premiered on Channel 4 in 2011, “The ‘black mirror’ of the title is the one you’ll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.” You stare into it expecting to see yourself and find only an abyss that might be your reflection filtered through technology. No matter how you feel about Black Mirror-and opinions tend to cluster at opposite extremes of the spectrum-you have to admit it’s a brilliant title.
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