Whether it’s the rating-obsessed sociopolitics of “Nosedive,” the accessible memory that haunts “The Entire History of You,” or the simulated reality at the heart of “San Junipero”: the show’s landmark episodes work by projecting our present into exhilarating, devastating futures. Until now, the purpose of Black Mirror has been to cast a distorted reflection of our contemporary reality. One element in particular threatens to stretch the show’s boundaries to a breaking point: In a fundamental shift for the sci-fi series, season 6 marks the first time that Black Mirror leans into the supernatural. In an interview with Tudum in June, he stressed that “ Black Mirror should always be a show that can’t be easily defined, and can keep reinventing itself.” To that end, he admitted, “We’ve got a few new elements … to stretch the parameters of what a Black Mirror episode even is.” A week after all five episodes dropped, one thing is clear: This season of Black Mirror is not Black Mirror, or at least not as we once knew it. Considering all the showrunner has already pulled from his nightmare playbook, it was reasonable for fans to expect the latest season would skewer our tech-dependent culture in updated, yet recognizable ways. Not since the series began has Brooker had such rich pickings to reinvent as a televisual nightmare. The sixth season of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series has landed on Netflix as dystopia feels increasingly inevitable: war, wildfire, spiraling climate and financial crises, the rise of AI, and, oh yes, a once-in-a-century pandemic. Black Mirror is back just when we need it most.
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