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Black Mirror (Season 3)
By Rouén Robinson
Nov 7, 2016 - 6:25:15 PM

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The Future Is Bright...


This anthology series of speculative fiction features stand-alone episodes that blend themes of technology, anxiety and human relationships that lead to an inevitable conclusion. It taps into our collective unease about the modern world by warning us of a near future that is sometimes unsettling but always unforgettable.

Lacie lives in a future where your evaluation by others on social media controls every facet of life and she is doing her best to keep he score high while preparing for an old friend’s wedding. Cooper is an American traveler backpacking through Europe who signs up to beta test a revolutionary new immersive gaming system when he finds himself short on cash. Kenny is a young man who values his privacy and falls into an online trap which forces him to team up with the shady Hector to do a series of tasks for persons unknown. Yorkie is a shy young woman who moves to a seaside town in 1987 and finds herself drawn to an enigmatic party girl named Kelly. Private Koinange who goes by Stripe is a soldier in a military organization battling  ‘roaches’, the mutated side effects of biological weapons of an unspecified war. Detective Karen Parke is part of the London police and breaking in her new partner Blue Colson while working on a case of mysterious deaths connected to a hashtag.

Black Mirror shows that a television series in its third season of depicting the uncomfortable side of the progression of technology in our modern world can still be biting and relevant. Each of the six episodes in the current season of the anthology is able to take its subject matter to a place that is not always easy to watch as it holds a mirror to reflect more clearly our shortcomings in the wake of the cyber revolution.

It gives us a glimpse of a future not too far removed from our present by extrapolating on current trends in our social interaction through an augmented virtual reality. The casting is superb with each role being performed by a more than capable thespian prepared to give their all in a way that keeps the viewer glued to screen and ready to consume each cautionary tale. Charlie Brooker has created a series that is rightfully compared to the Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits with social commentary that alerts us to trends in our own behavior that if not corrected could lead to chaotic ends. I can not say this is the best season of the series, but it maintains the high quality set by the previous ones.

I rate this season of the series a 4 out of 5.

On Netflix


See other reviews by Rouén HERE.


Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for F LIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen



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