Black Mirror - Entire Show - 2011-2019 - Review

Written and directed by Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror is a dystopian futuristic science fiction show that talks about all realms of life and what the future could possibly hold for people.

The show has a total of five seasons, with one standalone interactive episode and a special that was released with season 2. Generally, each season has only three episodes, except for seasons 3 and 4 which each have 6 episodes.

It premiered in 2011 on the Channel 4 Network, but in 2016, by the third season, Netflix purchased it and created 3 more seasons plus the interactive episode. Each episode generally provides a moral for and about humanity that should be learned or at least thought of. Every episode has its own story with its own characters and storylines and there is no specific order to which they should be watched.

The first two seasons, although not produced by a huge network such as Netflix, were a huge success. Numerous episodes were extremely thought-provoking and even disturbing.

The first episode of the first season, titled “The National Anthem” followed the storyline of a man who kidnapped a princess, and the only way for her to return was to have the prime minister have sexual intercourse with a pig and have the whole world watch it – before he does though the princess is released without anyone noticing.

The moral of the story in this episode was to showcase how media can engross us to the extent that we take real events and turn them into suspense ridden stories rather than focusing on what is really happening. The show does this several times, showing what media and technology, in general, could do to humanity without humanity really taking notice.