After a lot of behind-the-scenes complications, “Black Mirror” is officially returning for a sixth season on Netflix. Now that fans have something to look forward to again, it’s worth looking back on the show’s most widely-derided string of episodes: season 5. The season started off with “Striking Vipers,” an episode whose biggest claim to fame was […]
Continue readingThe Television Academy has confirmed to IndieWire that “Black Mirror” will not be eligible to compete in the 2020 Emmy race for Outstanding Television Movie, a category the Netflix science-fiction anthology series has dominated for the last several years. A source close to Netflix also confirmed the show had been booted from the Television Movie […]
Continue readingSpoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Smithereens” follow below. Viewers of Black Mirror are certainly no stranger to ambiguous or bleak endings, but one of the Season 5 episodes leaves things on a slightly less clear note than usual. Black Mirror: Smithereens tackles social media culture—more specifically humanity’s obsession with staring at their phones day-in […]
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