![]() ![]() ![]() “A Black Mirror episode can be whatever the hell we want it to be. Apparently nostalgia is the new future shock.Īre these few common threads enough? Brooker believes they are-and hey, it’s his show and he can do what he wants with it. And while “Beyond the Sea” takes place in an alternate-reality 1969, “Demon 79” is set in 1979 and “Mazey Day” in the early aughts. ![]() “Joan Is Awful,” a five-minutes-in-the-future cringe comedy that follows a woman (Annie Murphy) who discovers that her daily life is being adapted into a streaming series starring Salma Hayek, is the only other story that evokes the uncanny tech-queasiness that used to define the show. That leaves episode 3, “Beyond the Sea,” a prototypical Black Mirror tear-jerker that casts Aaron Paul and Josh Hartnett as astronauts who are able to virtually visit their families thanks to a device that transfers their consciousnesses to look-alike robots back on Earth. The last two, “Mazey Day” and “Demon 79,” are horror stories. The first two episodes, “Joan Is Awful” and “Loch Henry,” take on a contemporary screen phenomenon that must be at the top of Brooker’s mind: streaming entertainment. In my mind, season 6 breaks down into three sections. ![]()
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