- we choose The best episodes of ‘Black Mirror’ in all its history, our favorite stories from the Netflix series created by Charlie Brooker. Is your favorite chapter also?
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When Charlie Brooker set out to resurrect the anthology series format, he never imagined what he was about to screw up: a decade later, ‘Black Mirror’ is one of the most acclaimed, loved and analyzed Netflix series of the age of streaming. After two successful three-episode seasons on Britain’s Channel 4, Netflix snapped up the rights and gave Brooker a wide berth to take his ideas to infinity (and beyond). The result: bigger budgets, longer seasons, bigger crews and more powerful stars… and one of the most awarded series on Netflix.
It may be an anthology with separate stories, but the complete ‘Black Mirror’ timeline shows us that their stories are more connected than we think. All this and much more) has created an undeniable cult for the series, which has already accumulated five brilliant seasons and has a sixth under construction. In them we have been able to see an evolution from a very dark first season (or don’t you remember when, in the first episode of the series, they blackmail the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom into having sex with a pig?) to brighter recent episodes, although without losing sight of social criticism and the analysis of technology in the not too distant future.
In a New York Times interview in December 2018, Brooker commented: “We’re making more upbeat episodes and stories instead of dystopian and negative episodes. We want to keep the show interesting for us.”. You have to evolve, even in a series with very clear premises. Along the way they have also innovated with a “choose your own adventure” film, although the explanation of ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ made it clear that the film was more valuable for the philosophical issues it addressed than for its interactive quality.
We have reviewed all the episodes of ‘Black Mirror’ to develop this very subjective ranking with a dozen episodes of the series, ranging from the very first episode (yes, the one in which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has to have sex with a pig in prime time to save the country) to award-winning and beloved jewels such as ‘San Junipero’ (a love story that showed the most emotional and romantic side of the Brooker series). If you already have the best series of 2022 under control, you can remember the greatest hits of this series. Do you agree with the result? Is your favorite episode?
Out of competition have been a good list of interesting episodes. Completists who have enjoyed the 10 winners can find many virtues in:
– ‘Playtesting‘
– ‘the science of killing‘
– ‘BlackMuseum‘
– ‘Bandersnatch‘
– ‘Striking Vipers‘
– ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too‘
On the other hand, it has cost us less to leave chapters like ‘White Bear‘, ‘the waldo moment‘, ‘Alligator‘, ‘metal head‘ Y ‘Smithereens‘.
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Shut Up and Dance (Season 3, Episode 3)
Address: James Watkins
Script: Charlie Brooker and William Bridges
Among the episodes of ‘Black Mirror’ there are more parodic and there are more tense and disturbing, and ‘Shut up and dance’ is part of the second group. This nightmarish story follows a young boy (Alex Lawther) blackmailed by a group of hackers, and the twist ending will leave you in a bad shape for a month. Now, you will like it if you liked ‘White Bear’ and its dark tone.
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Hang the DJ (Season 4, Episode 4)
Address: Tim Van Patten
Script: Charlie Brooker
Starring Georgina Campbell and Joe Cole, this episode focused on Tinder-style dating apps, and is characterized by a much lighter, cuter tone than some of its seasonmates. There has to be everything!
10
15 million merits (Season 1, episode 2)
Address: euro lyn
Script: Charlie Brooker and Konnie Huq
Pedal all day, only then can you achieve the goals created by the owners of the bike. Now it would be a somewhat simpler chapter, possibly marked by the obviousness to which Netflix has taken the series but, in 2011, we were not so cute.
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Arkangel (Season 4, episode 2)
Address: Jodie Foster
Script: charlie brooker
Uncomfortable chapter with a complex mother-child relationship as the main plot. How to refuse a device that allows you to monitor each and every one of the steps of your 4-year-old daughter? And, above all, how to unhook from that protection as time goes by? In this and many others we see the connections between the episodes of ‘Black Mirror’. shared universe?
8
Plummet (Season 3, Episode 1)
Address: Joe Wright
Script: Rashida Jones, Michael Schur and Charlie Brooker
Social networks have won. Your score on an app will decide your social status, the services you have access to, and even your future career. Come on, a bit like now but with pastel colors and Bryce Dallas Howard going down to the hell of the block.
7
National Hatred (Season 3, Episode 6)
Address: james hawes
Script: charlie brooker
The “hate” is dangerous, let them tell the victims of this chapter that, after screwing up in various ways on social networks, they will receive the hatred of half the planet in an overwhelming way. Luckily (for us), they’ll get a big lesson in karma, unless Detective Karin Parke cracks the case before the deadly finale.
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I’ll be right back (Season 2, Episode 1)
Address: Owen Harris
Script: charlie brooker
Martha is unable to get over the death of her partner but, in full grief, she discovers the services of a company that provides her with a synthetic replica of the longed-for loved one with the memories collected from her social networks. It’s the same but of course not the same.
5
USS Callister (Season 4, Episode 1)
Address: Toby Haynes
Script: Charlie Brooker and William Bridges
Captain Daly explores the galaxy with his crew, experiencing thousands of adventures under the watchful eye of, wait… HOW?
4
White Christmas (Season 2, Episode 4)
Address: Carl Tibbetts
Script: charlie brooker
In a snowy place, two men decide to break the silence in which they live to try to explain to each other how they got there. Christmas special that plays at being itself an anthology chapter of interconnected stories. A virguería of an hour and a quarter with as many topics for subsequent conversations as an entire season.
3
The National Anthem (Season 1, Episode 1)
Address: Otto Bathurst
Script: charlie brooker
A kidnapped princess, a prime minister in a bind, and a pig who doesn’t know what’s coming his way. The key for this Channel 4 madness to become an international phenomenon since its premiere in 2011.
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San Junipero (Season 3, Episode 4)
Address: Owen Harris
Script: charlie brooker
Yorkie has just arrived in San Junipero, a fun vacation destination on the 80’s California coast. There he meets Kelly and, as their relationship progresses, we will discover that there is much more to that place than it seems.
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Your Complete Story (Season 1, Episode 3)
Address: Brian Welsh
Script: Jesse Armstrong
What if you could see again in great detail everything you’ve seen in your day to day? A memory as sharp and infallible as it is dangerous. Why would you want to see certain moments of your life again? How to erase those that hurt you but have become addictive? Will you really live in the present if you can return to previous corners whenever you want?
Ricardo Rosado
Son of Spielberg, acolyte of Lynch and lookalike of Shinji Ikari.
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