WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Black Mirror — wired.com

This is just a guess, but we’re betting you came to Black Mirror through a friend’s recommendation. We’ll also wager that recommendation somehow involved the phrase “modern Twilight Zone.” Are we getting warm? Well, guess what. Your friend isn’t wrong. Though it’s got about 150 fewer episodes than Zone, Charlie Brooker’s six-part (seven-part, if you count the Christmas special) British future-dystopia series is the digitally adjusted equivalent of the show that scared the bejesus out of nice families with its eerie what-if criticisms of 20th-century America. And like that show, it slightly alters the otherwise unremarkable everyday lives of its characters just enough—through advances in tech this time—to render them unsettling. Black Mirror, like The Twilight Zone, isn’t exactly horror, but it will give you nightmares all the same.

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