Black Mirror’s illustrations - Butcher Billy

By: Polliana Biche (Grade 3)

Have you ever had the desire to be part of your favorite TV series? Maybe a futuristic reality? Well, if you’re a fan of “Black Mirror”, you can already see it in our real world, or should I say, society?!

Created by Charlie Brooker, “Black Mirror” is a dystopian TV series with six seasons which approaches the relation between humans, technology and society. With very intriguing episodes, the series touches on many topics like how people are dealing with relationships nowadays and how much social media exposure can be harmful. In this way, it creates the perfect environment for group discussions and reflections about what might happen in the next few years if we don’t rethink our actions.

Talking about discussions, if you’re a fan of the series, you might have seen that everybody is questioning why season six has changed so much compared to the others. With much more fantastic characteristics, “Black Mirror” keeps making criticism towards our society – but with supernatural creatures such as werewolves and demons. However, there is one episode that doesn’t change that much: “Joan is Awful”. Though, They didn’t develop the story in a good way and couldn’t make the fans happy. So, we can suppose the producers have been running out of options after more than 10 years since the beginning of the show. And you, what do you think about this new season?

Despite all the critiques the series has been receiving, I strongly recommend the previous seasons, as they have many incredible narratives and plots in each episode that will instigate in you the development of another point of view about our society. Last, but not least, here is a list of my favorite episodes so you can watch them:

1- “San Junipero” (S03 EP04)
2- “Nosedive” (S03 EP01)
3- “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” (S05 EP01)
4- “White Christmas” (S02 EP04)
5- “Hated in the Nation” (S03 EP06)

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