Black Mirror

***Black Mirror*** TV series.

* 01 (1-1) – 4 – politics, ent, blackmail; too real
* 02 (1-2) – 3 – ent, talent show / reality tv; credits replaces money; slavery
* 03 (1-3) – 2 – eyes, too much history, rewind everything that happened, i'd get stuck in it
* 04 (2-1) – 2 – too much history; stuck with the dead (dealing with death)
* 05 (2-2) – 2 – inhumane punishment; unknown criminal; torture as ent; too real
* 06 (2-3) – 3 – politics, ent; too real esp w/ drumpf
* 07 (2-4) – 4 – 3-plots; blocking ppl; digital clone, slaves; punishment; unknown criminal; eyes
* 08 (3-1) – 3 – social standing = rl standing..., social media on steroids; eyes
* 09 (3-2) – 2 – ent, video game vs reality
* 10 (3-3) – 3 – blackmail & still trolled; unknown criminal, unofficial punishment
* 11 (3-4) – 5 – digital afterlife (dealing with death); uploaded consciousness
* 12 (3-5) – 3 – altered view for soldiers, eyes; slavery; eugenics
* 13 (3-6) – 4 – online mob justice, social media on steroids, ent; tiny robot killers, unofficial punishment
* 14 (4-1) – 2 – digital clone, slaves; dealing with bullies in rl → altered reality
* 15 (4-2) – 3 – helicopter parenting; filtering reality
* 16 (4-3) – 2 – covering up crime; viewing thoughts
* 17 (4-4) – 2 – digital dating algorithm? – digital clone w/o clones; computer decides who you date & for how long (but not reality)
* 18 (4-5) – 4 – killer robots
* 19 (4-6) – 5 – digital clone, slaves; unknown criminal, inhumane & unofficial punishment, ent; eyes; dealing with death; uploaded consciousness

\* rating: 2=okay to 5=awesome

### by theme

themes:

* entertainment: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14
	+ 1 – watch someone else suffer (for 'art')
	+ 2 – everything is for ent $$
	+ – watch people (yellow shirts) suffer
	+ 5 – watch someone else suffer as gov't punishment
	+ 6 – politics/gov't as ent instead of population taking it as serious
	+ 9 – video game
	+ 13 – have someone else suffer : die
	+ 14 – video game; recreate favorite fandom
	+ 19 – electricute digital clone as ent
* politics: 1, 6
* blackmail: 1, 10
* unknown criminal: 5, 7, 10, 19
* slavery
	+ real-life slave-like-life: 2, 12
	+ digital clones as slaves: 7, 14, 19
	+ almost slaves but it's algorithm, not even digital clones: 17
* punishment for crimes
	+ by gov't: 2, 7
	+ by unofficial sources: 10, 13, 19
* eyes: 3, 7, 8, 12, 15, 19
	+ blocking/filtering ppl: 7, 12, 15
	+ see someone else's thoughts: 3, 15, 16, 19
* tech hell: 9, 13, 18, 19
	+ killer robots: 13, 18
* social media on steroids: 8, 13
	+ too much history: 3, 4
* dealing with death: 4, 11, 19
	+ uploaded consciousness: 11, 19
* romance: 2, 4, 11, 17
	+ digital: 11, 17

## Links

wiki

* *Black Mirror* on Wikipedia
* Black Mirror Wikia

official

* https://twitter.com/blackmirror
* https://rateme.social/

s4 creator interviews

* http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/29/black-mirror-u-s-s-callister-interview/
* http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/29/black-mirror-jodie-foster-arkangel/
* http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/29/black-mirror-crocodile-interview/
* http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/29/black-mirror-hang-the-dj-ending/
* http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/29/black-mirror-metalhead-interview/

rand news/reviews

* https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/black-mirror-black-museum-is-a-throwback-to-episodes-past/549389/