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Black Mirror (TV Series)

Black Mirror

2011

Charlie Brooker (Creator), Owen Harris ...

Rory Kinnear, Lindsay Duncan, Lydia Wilson, Tom Goodman-Hill ...

8.2

36,085

TV Series. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Horror. Drama TV Series (2011-2023). 5 Seasons. 22 Episodes. A television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology.

	Media	Author	Review
		John Nugent Empire	"[6th Season Review]: While it’s rarely a cheerful watch, it’s never boring or especially predictable, either (...) As scathing and sadistic as ever (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Hugo Rifkind The Times	"[6th Season Review]: There is always a streak of brilliance in 'Black Mirror', but it does often make you think, well, why only a streak?"
		Carly Lane Collider	"[6th Season Review]: With Season 6, Brooker forges an interesting path forward for the series (...) Instead, the season ventures to ask the audience to reflect on how we consume our storie"
		Morgan Cormack Radio Times	"[6th Season Review]: Charlie Brooker takes a risk and it definitely pays off (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Steve Greene IndieWire	"[6th Season Review]: 'Black Mirror' doesn't know what it wants to be anymore (...) An aggressively average season stretches the show's central premise thin and abandons its best chance at staying relevant"
		Kayleigh Dray AV Club	"[6th Season Review]: It’s the sort of TV that demands you put away your phone and pay attention, quite frankly. And, after the show’s divisive fifth season, we are genuinely relieved to see it back on form"
		Angie Han The Hollywood Reporter	"[6th Season Review]: Fans of the show's tech-dystopia thought exercises might be disappointed to see the series cast them off, and the shift in focus still yields as many misses as hits. But [it] sets itself up for a freer, wilder, intriguing future"
		Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"[6th Season Review]: We’ve been waiting since 2019 for new episodes, but has it been worth the wait? Yes. Yes, it absolutely has (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sam Adams Slate	"[6th Season Review]: The problem with these episodes' dark futures is that we're already in them"
		Bob Strauss San Francisco Chronicle	"[6th Season Review]: This most technophobic of series feels a little more human than ever before (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Leila Jordan Paste Magazine	"[6th Season Review]: This season is a frustrating return to form, yet simultaneously attempts to step out of ['Black Mirror']s shell. There is a pervasive feeling that Charlie Brooker and Co. are beginning to feel locked into the show's premise"
		Alex Maidy JoBlo	"[6th Season Review]: this season boasts a very big range of quality"
		Ann Marie Hourihane Irish Independent	"[6th Season Review]: Maybe 'Black Mirror' is like one of those boy bands of the Nineties, playing old hits for a new generation who will never know how old the ideas already are"
		Daniel D'Addario Variety	"[6th Season Review]: A refreshingly uncynical return to form (...) Brooker is trying new things with his art and with his characters"
		Samantha Nelson IGN	"Black Mirror season 6 expands beyond dystopian science fiction, but only two of five episodes are bright spots."
		Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"[6th Season Review]: It is, overall, a fine collection of new episodes. Whether any will stick in the mind and become as revered as 'Hated in the Nation' or 'Be Right Back', or as loved as 'San Junipero', I doubt (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Fletcher Peters The Daily Beast	"[6th Season Review]: None of the five episodes rise to the occasion of the horrors we've seen in 2020 and beyond, also failing to live up to the high standard the series has set for itself"
		Kristy Puchko Mashable	"[6th Season Review]: Salma Hayek Pinault, Aaron Paul, Annie Murphy and more dazzle and terrorize"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"[6th Season Review]: The season offers the usual skewering of our grim era's tech and media and politics, to intermittently engaging effect. But overall, Brooker's arguments feel creaky, his observations arriving, in some cases, years late"
		Joel Keller Decider	"[6th Season Review]: As with every anthology series, ['Black Mirror']'s episodes will vary in quality, but they're always entertaining"
		Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"[6th Season Review]: It's admirable that Brooker isn't simply resting on his laurels and trying to stretch the definition of what 'Black Mirror' can be. But many of the new episodes fall victim to issues the series has been having for a while"
		Michael Haigis Slant	"[5th Season Review]: By targeting forces (and people) who already exist in reality, Brooker couples the show’s broad anxieties with a tinge of righteous anger (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Judy Berman Time	"[5th Season Review]: [It] is just silly (...) [Brooker] do well to abandon the auteurist approach and incorporate some paranoid voices from outside his own brain."
		Hugh Montgomery BBC	"[5th Season Review]: it justifies its continuation with one astounding episode – even at a mere three episodes long, its variable quality is more starkly evident than ever."
		Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"[5th Season Review]: Like a sweetly sadistic scientist, it delights in shaving off slices of our collective psyche and sliding them under an unforgiving microscope to examine our most current concerns (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"[5th Season Review]: Still the king of the genre (...) Brooker remains restlessly creative"
		Darren Franich Entertainment Weekly	"[5th Season Review]: The humor is sharp enough to slice your head off, and the science-fiction tragedy is factual enough to blow your decapitated mind."
		Ben Travers IndieWire	"[5th Season Review]: Die-hard fans will see whatever they want in Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones' new episodes, but they hardly reflect the series' best look."
		Helen Daly Express	"[5th Season Review]: With only three instalments, fans better expect a good batch, and it’s safe to say, the Netflix show has delivered just that."
		Stuart McGurk GQ	"[4th Season Review]: 'Black Mirror' season 4 is darker than ever (...) It is Charlie Brooker’s smartest series to date – and by far the most disturbing."
		Liz Shannon Miller IndieWire	"[4th Season Review]: Fortunately, creator Charlie Brooker has taken some big swings with other installments, and the result is proof that “Black Mirror,” as a series, has plenty of mileage left in it. (...) there’s more optimism in Season 4 than you might expect."
		Daniel Krupa IGN	"[4th Season Review]: While no episode here quite matches the brilliance of last year’s San Junipero – still one of the finest single episodes of TV I’ve seen – these six dystopian tales deliver the strongest, most consistent season of the show yet."
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"[3rd Season Review]: Charlie Brooker's splashy new series is still a sinister marvel (...) Brooker takes us to surprising and ultimately poignant places (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		James Poniewozik The New York Times	"[3rd Season Review]: You don’t watch an episode so much as get abducted into it (...) 'Black Mirror' hasn’t lost its currency"
		Matt Fowler IGN	"[3rd Season Review]: I'm happy to say too that these six new episodes are excellent (...) These are all solid, sinister stories with important takeaways."
		Margaret Lyons Vulture	"[2nd Season Review]: 'Black Mirror' says more in six episodes than most shows will even bother trying to depict or articulate in dozens. It's exciting and ambitious"
		Paul Whitelaw Empire	"[2nd Season Review]: It’s still gratifying to see this kind of ambition on British TV (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Sims AV Club	"[2nd Season Review]: I’m very sad to bid goodbye to 'Black Mirror', and I’m very hopeful that Brooker can produce more episodes for a third season sometime in the future."
		Emily Nussbaum The New Yorker	"[1st Season Review]: I felt disoriented, dropped on a new planet (...) For all the show's inventive storytelling, its true provocation is its righteous outrage"
		William Thomas Empire	"[1st Season Review]: However you view it, this three-part series is thought-provoking and very well written (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Todd VanDerWerff AV Club	"[1st Season Review]: In those moments of genuine, human emotion amid the bleakness (...) the show underlines its true mission statement: We are all connected, more than ever before."

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