As its title suggests, Black Mirror has become the anthology series that forces us to examine ourselves, and the increasingly technological world in which we inhabit, through the screen we have pointed at ourselves at all times. Since it premiered 12 years ago, and moved from Channel 4 in the U.K. to Netflix, it has become our generation’s version of the Twilight Zone, but (one might argue) with far more at stake. The anthology series has set out to consider the anxieties of our technological era. It warns not that our advanced tools are bad, but that humans can (and undoubtedly will) misuse our own creations. It takes risks with storytelling, and it has even predicted a number of actual real-world events, with episodes that have come eerily close to depicting Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency before they happened.Like every anthology series, even the Emmy-winning Black Mirror can be hit or miss. So, with Season Six now on Netflix, we ranked all 28 episodes of Black Mirror from worst to best. 2023 © Netflix28. “Mazey Day”The message at the core of “Mazey Day” is admirable: paparazzi, tabloids, and fans are what drive celebrities to monstrous behavior. But the actual story? It doesn’t quite land. While Zazie Beetz and Danny Ramirez are characteristically great, we never spend enough time with Clara Rugaar’s Mazey Day to actually feel something when the shit hits the fan. Still, though—”Mazey Day” will whet your appetite for more horror-genre antics from the Black Mirror universe. —… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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All 28 Episodes of Black Mirror, Ranked
