That’s the problem with the fourth season’s weakest installment, “Arkangel,” which follows the usual Black Mirror pattern of pushing existing technology a few iterations into the future, then considering the nightmarish consequences. The weaker episodes, though, can come across as shallowly scolding, or worse - just a little too obvious. The best episodes are imaginative and daring, but they also tap into real concerns, like the way politicians are tailoring their behavior to please the fickle, easily swayed social-media crowd (in the first-season episode “The National Anthem”), or how the ability to rate services and companies via apps has turned us all into horrible bosses (in the third season’s “Nosedive”). Spoiler warning: This essay does not give away the ending of “Arkangel,” but does broadly address its plot.Ĭharlie Brooker’s tech-horror anthology Black Mirror is largely about exploring the downsides of the way we use technology. Other essays in this series address “USS Callister, ” “Black Museum,” “Hang The DJ,” “Crocodile,” and “ Metalhead.” In this series, six writers will look at each of the fourth season’s six episodes to see what they have to say about current culture and projected fears.
The fourth season of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone -esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on December 29th, 2017.
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