Reviews - Black Mirror

If “Smithereens” shows how a substantial running time can improve a slight story, “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too”…

Possibly the most famous joke ever told about Black Mirror comes from Daniel Mallory Ortberg: “what if phones but…

For the first ten minutes of “Striking Vipers,’ I assumed I knew where this was headed. It all seemed so obvious,…

This is not going to be a clever review. Oh, I thought about it. Black Mirror’s newest entry “Bandersnatch” is a…

Saving the worst for last, then. “Black Museum” is the closest Black Mirror has come to self-parody, and there’s an…

Ah, the pleasures of a 40 minute chase scene. Shot in black and white and following the adventures of a woman…

As much as we value individual experiences, it’s hard to get thrilled at the prospect of slogging through an…

I think the title is about crocodile tears. Maybe there’s something I’m missing (there so often is!), but that’s my…

There is something merciless in Black Mirror’s compassion. It spends time introducing us to its characters, and then…

“USS Callister” isn’t really about Star Trek. Oh sure, it has the trappings. There’s a ship crewed with people in…

And with that, we come to the end of Black Mirror’s third season. So much has changed! I look back at the start, and…

When I was a kid, I used to rent video games from the corner store every weekend. I was only allowed one game at a…

Throughout its three seasons, Black Mirror has been consistent on a single idea: technology is a trap. Sure, the…

The secret hook to most every horror story is pretty simple: most of the time, the protagonist deserves what they…

Boy, computers are scary, huh? Virtual reality is pretty scary too. Also scary: the crazy things they’re doing with…

For the first thirty minutes, I thought I wasn’t going to make it. There’s nothing overtly horrific in “Nosedive,”…

The speculative anthology Black Mirror has always been curious (and anxious) about the intersection of technology…

Jon Hamm makes a great coward. Better: He makes a convincing coward, someone whose fundamental character flaw isn’t…

After the nightmare of “White Bear,” I fired up the last episode of Black Mirror’s second season fearing further…

“White Bear” is, by a significant margin, the most disturbing episode Black Mirror has produced. That’s quite an…