12/9/2023 0 Comments Black mirror season 3 episode 2![]() The episode opens with Chris ( Fleabag’s Andrew Scott) meditating in his car while he waits for a rideshare app to land him a customer. There’s ample suspense and tension to mine in the story of a kidnapping gone sour. The episode’s only crime–other than stalking, kidnapping, and extortion–is its story is too self-contained to fully realize the potential of the ideas it starts to unpack. You can feel the threat of it beating like a pulse throughout “Smithereens.” Only here, Brooker pulls the rug on us to tell a human story refreshingly relevant to our current era. It’s Charlie Brooker’s best magic trick, one he uses to deploy themes and ideas that fit the wider scope of the Black Mirror universe. Though not solely limited to the technology itself, Black Mirror fans have been conditioned to look for narrative twists. ![]() I don’t know if this trajectory set expectations any higher for Black Mirror season 5, but we could reasonably infer, based on the show’s track record, that the new episodes would introduce concepts designed to send us spiraling through bad dreams about tomorrow’s tech. Bandersnatch, Netflix’s first “interactive” film, nearly broke my brain when I tried in earnest to review it. After moving over to Netflix for the series’ third season, he delivered reality-altering leaps in episodes like “San Junipero,” and “Playtest,” and season four’s “USS Callister.” Then he spent a year dismantling the medium as we know it and rebuilding it in the mold of the video game. When real life caught up to Black Mirror, series creator Charlie Brooker promised us he’d look ahead. This review contains spoilers for Black Mirror season 5.
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