![]() That’s true of “Joan Is Awful,” the most classically Black Mirror episode in the new batch, which depicts a world in which TV production has accelerated to the point where a new installment of a show can be–with the help of A.I.–written, shot, edited and released on a streaming service within the span of a single day.Īnnie Murphy ( Schitt’s Creek) plays Joan, a middle manager at a Spotify-esque tech company, struggling with the feeling that she’s “not the main character in my own life story,” as she tells her therapist. Please join us in welcoming Annie Murphy to the Black Mirror-verse. But now that our reality has caught up with Black Mirror, it feels like the show has less to say about the unintended future consequences of technological advancements than it has to say about what’s happening right now, quite literally. Yet, time and time again, Black Mirror seduces us with its slick version of a counterfactual reality, with its ability to make us think. With its often grim view of humanity, this is not relaxing television Netflix has Emily in Paris for that. There are no recurring characters for us to get attached to, no ongoing stories to follow. This requires massive amounts of exposition and expensive production design in a time of shrinking attention spans and budgets. Much like The Twilight Zone, the show to which it is most often compared, each episode is a self-contained unit adhering to its own internal logic. The best thing about Black Mirror, the enduring quality that’s made it such a phenomenon, is its pure ambition. That’s not to say it’s not worth watching. Most of the episodes of Season Six are set in the past, making this the most un- Black Mirror season of Black Mirror yet. But if real life and Black Mirror have reached some kind of bizarre convergence point, what is left for the show to say about our future? Not much, it turns out. ![]() Into this uncanny valley, Netflix dropped Season Six this Thursday, containing a fresh bounty of five episodes.
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