film review
The Believable Dystopia of Black Mirror Season 5
A retrospective analysis on Season 5
So what if I’m doing a review for the fifth season of Black Mirror a few years late… and? Maybe I wanted to put off my fears for the future for as long as I could. Maybe I wasn’t particularly excited to watch the singer of “Party in the USA” starring in a Black Mirror episode. But now that season 6 is upon us, I guess I can wait no longer.
It’s no secret by now that Black Mirror is one of the most important shows of the modern day. But it’s not often you’ll hear it referred to as the masterpiece that it is.
Because the show has made habit of delving into some of the darkest scenarios humanity is likely to face, it doesn't always fall into the enjoyable watching category exactly. In fact, it can be downright disconcerting at times. Its depictions of the future, though, are so astoundingly realistic that it sometimes can feel more like a mandatory study than a leisurely watch.
Each episode of Black Mirror offers a standalone narrative that dives into some of the strange times that we’re approaching. In that way, it’s a show with a challenge like no other. It’s tasked itself over and over again with foreseeing inventions and realities that haven’t yet come to fruition, and its…
