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Black mirror has become the prominent sci-fi antologi series in the streaming era.
The show has been running for seven seasons with lots of memorable episodes, so the good people at Giant Freakin Robot wanted to give you their choices for the absolute best.
And to get some of you who are raging in the comments directly through the gate, we do not include “San Junipero.” Or “White Christmas.” Good section, but they didn’t make the cut.
Less surprising but you won’t see Bandersnatch show up.
#9. “Black Beast”
Seven seasons in and “Betê Noir” proves that Black mirror is still capable of pulling out a mind -bending classic.
By playing with the collective false memory phenomenon known as the Mandela effect, the section fully draws from being at Netflix by randomly changing with each viewing.
When you first look at the story of Maria, a chocolate, small things are in her memory when her old classmate, Verity, joins the company.
Did her boyfriend worked at Barnies or Bernies? Wait, what name was the last time you looked at the section?
There are other changes in “Betê Noir”, including dialog rows, making it a major experiment for Netflix and already makes the section one of the best in the series.
It is even before the twist, which goes beyond the typical Black mirror Section, and just like the debate about Berenstein Bears or Berenstain Bears, the debate about this is a good end, or a bad end, will rage among the fans.
#8. “Ordinary people”
If you had to pay unreasonable subscription fees to keep a loved one alive, would you stop at nothing to scrape together the cash, or count your losses and move on before your financial desperation becomes the best of you?
When Amanda unexpectedly collapses and falls into a coma, her husband, Mike, is contacted by a representative from Rivermind Technologies who has the solution to the couple’s problems.
Given a second chance in life thanks to an experimental synthetic brain tissue implant, Amanda is proud that she can go back to how things were.
Here is the Kickaren: With each month that goes on, subscription levels and their pricing, change, causes countless complications to the user interface.
“Ordinary people” show how life -changing medical progress causes more harm than good when the technology behind it falls into the wrong hands, resulting in a moral dilemma that no honest person should meet.
When Mike ensures to humiliate himself online for money to keep up with the increasing costs behind Rivermind’s implants, his good intentions are no match for the stress that puts on his relationship, which means you seriously consider how you would act under a similar set of circumstances.
By offering a disturbing glimpse of what choices we have to make when a sickly loved one gets a second chance to live a fulfilling life, “ordinary people” will make you question how far you are willing to go when you are presented with two equally terrible alternatives: the death of a loved or discous subscription services.
#7. “Hang dj”
Dating apps have added a frustrating layer of abstraction to find your soul mate, and “hang DJ” raises this concept to levels of absurdity that makes you want to look up the single bars and find friendship in old -fashioned way.
Matchmaking is not easy in “Hang DJ”, as Frank and Amy discover that they are only intended to have a 12-hour relationship according to the dating app called coach.
Although the couple meets it immediately, they are quickly matched with new freer because coach is looking for the perfect compatibility level between its subjects.
Frank and Amy wonder if the app is rigged against them as they go through the movements with less than desirable options every time they are set with a new companion.
Eventually, the two decide to find out how to break the bike so that they can reunite and experience true love.
“Hang Dj” serves his container thanks to his willingness to put real human feelings against a soul -free algorithm that may not necessarily have your best interest in mind.
Love is something that cannot be quantified by statistics or even logic.
In other words, just because a computer says you are compatible with someone, it doesn’t mean it’s right.
A scary and absurd grip on the future of dating, “Hang DJ” will surely make you think twice what it means to sweep right and consider testing your turn in the real world where you can make these choices for yourself.
#6. “Nosedive”
The first episode produced by Netflix, “Nosedive” has a larger budget than something from the first two seasons, and you can see the difference on the screen.
It is as subtly as a hammer, but it is also one of Black mirror Most memorable sections.
Since social media continues to expand in popularity, it is more relevant today than 2016.
In a world where your social rating is all, Bryce Dallas Howard Plays Lacie, a young woman with a social point of 4.2 trying to get into a luxurious apartment that requires a point of 4.5, and no amount of pleasing with barista or her co -workers can get her out of her RUT.
From getting a replacement flight to renting a car, everything in the world is determined by “nosedive” by your social score.
When Lacie’s points start to sink as she begins to lose her patience and realize how false and artificial everything is, she is thrown to the outside of society.
The result is an end that is both tragic, yet strangely optimistic compared to the usual Downer ends that Black mirror is known for.
#5. “White bear”
“White Bear” is one of Black mirror The earliest episode, which is broadcast during season 2, but to this day it remained very disturbing thanks to the twist that can come true every day.
A woman wakes up in the middle of an abandoned city without a memory of who she is or how she got there.
It seems that she is stuck in a place where a television signal controls the residents’ minds to film her and some other unaffected people.
At the same time, a strange masked man is chasing her down.
Most of the section’s story does not seem to fit with what we now expect from a section of Black mirroruntil the curtain is withdrawn.
In what might be Black mirror The most disturbing twist, it is revealed that the woman, along with her fiancee, kidnapped a little girl and filmed her murder.
As a legal punishment, she is now the attraction in White Bear Justice Park, an attraction where the public sees her on the same day, over and over, with the help of actors and Park Rangers, in a perverse sense of justice.
Transforming punishment for crime into public spectacle is common sci-fi Trope, from Death Race 2000 to Current to PlayerBut the joy that the participants in the “White Bear” show under the section’s closing credits are a reminder that while the series focuses on the dangers of technology, no machine will ever be as sadistic as humans.
#4. “The whole story of you”
Over analysis is a form of paralysis and Black mirror pushes this idea to the border with “the whole story.”
In the not so distant future, citizens are implanted with microchip technology that records and stores their first personal experiences for them to review forever.
When Toby has reason to believe that his wife has been unbelievable, he becomes obsessed with catching her in a lie about her marital irregularity and annoys the exchanges she has at a party with her ex-lover, Jonas.
Toby reviews every visual clue and phrase in his memory bank becomes Toby increasingly jealous and revenge, as he discovers truths that he is not ready or willing to accept.
“The whole story of you” is uncomfortable how examination of the past with such obsessive attention to detail has the potential to destroy your current relationships, especially if you are not a resident reliable person in the first place.
Through Toby’s behavior, we get a glimpse of ourselves and wonder if we would similarly make a departure through our own memories if we had an app that allowed us to do so.
An intensive exercise in unhroped introspection in the worst way, “the whole story of you” is a precautionary story to let the past infect your current and future in ways that are just a little too close to home.
#3. “USS Callister”
Black mirror Takes the idea of Star Trek And it turns into a comment on toxic fans and their feelings of ownership of art.
Our protagonist is a dissatisfied programmer who lives out his wildest power journey fantasies in a virtual reality simulation where he is allowed to do as Captain Kirk.
But his crew consists of sensitive creatures based on his colleague’s DNA, and what he ultimately does to them reveals how he uses imagination to exercise his damned feelings.
“USS Callister” has a lot to love, including solid special effects and a prominent performance from Jesse Plemons.
But the best thing about this section is its dark satirical analysis of Star Trek, which throws this utopian franchise as a dystopian refuge for so -called fans who are heartless, dangerous and completely misunderstanding The thing They confess to love.
Don’t misunderstand us, there is plenty of fun to have in “USS callists” but its hard angular look at bad fans is what makes it so special.
#2. “National Anthem”
All of these episodes later, the series premiere of Black mirror Still stands out like a deep and disturbing look at the modern social landscape.
Instead of the High Concept Science Fiction, “The National Anthem”, the series kicks off with an overly credible story about a British prime minister who has to respond to a royal kidnapping.
The kidnapper promises to release the victim if the Prime Minister goes on live -TV and has sex with a pig.
For as Bonkers as the concept is, the best thing about “National Anthem” is how deadly it is approaching his dementia plot while still understands the satire in the game.
Against pressure from the royal family and the general opinion of the public opinion, this Prime Minister must navigate in an unthinkable horrible situation while the whole country is waiting and watching.
The excitement is evident when the Prime Minister exhausts all his options.
When you get to the end and everything finally plays out, the section leaves you a lot to think about.
For as much as the idea sounds comical, the actual statement from the end of the section sets the standard for the show’s gloomy faith about modern society.
#1. “Fifteen million qualifications”
What if your entire lifestyle was determined by how many “like” you have online?
It is the basic idea behind “Fifteen Million Merits”, a Black mirror Section where an overworked underclass must do things like generating energy through desktop bikes in exchange for “merits” or money.
In this story, future Pacifier Star Daniel Kaluuya spends almost all her benefits so that a talented woman can participate in a TV talent competition.
When things do not go as he planned, he realizes that he may have to take drastic measures to fix this broken system.
Fifteen million qualifications comes to the top of our Black mirror The section list because it now feels like the world we live in.
The celebrity album Through social media’s pervasive in our lives has turned the praise into fame into the only seemingly escape from the slavery of capitalism.
In a world where social capital translates into actual wealth, Fifteen million qualifications claims that such a system cannot be struck because it will even find a way to benefit from rage against it.
Basically it is Network. And Network Is also fantastic.
With excellent stimulation, excitement, performances and profits, Fifteen million qualifications ranked as the best section of Black mirror.
