Review: Black Mirror Used to Be a Terrifying Vision of the Future. Season 5 Is Just Silly

Jun 05, 2019, 07:16 PM
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Black Mirror was built on chilling "what if" scenarios. In the first two seasons of the sci-fi anthology, which aired on Channel 4 in the UK, creator Charlie Brooker applied the question to a series of tech-dystopia nightmares: What if tiny devices implanted in everyone's head recorded all of our experiences, and we could replay them on demand? What if A.I.

Black Mirror was built on chilling "what if" scenarios. In the first two seasons of the sci-fi anthology, which aired on Channel 4 in the UK, creator Charlie Brooker applied the question to a series of tech-dystopia nightmares: What if tiny devices implanted in everyone's head recorded all of our experiences, and we could replay them on demand? What if A.I.