In “Hang the DJ” from Season 4, there’s a new kind of omnipotent dating system that tells you who to date, and for how long. Fair warning that this can definitely happen in real life. Hackers (and child pornography consumption) ruin lives in “Shut Up and Dance” from Season 3. Remember the social media-obsessed, insincere happiness of everyone in the Season 3 episode “Nosedive”? Almost feels real, doesn’t it?Īaand you probably freaked out the moment you realized video game companies are probably (definitely) testing virtual reality similar to the one in “Playtest.” I know I did. In “Be Right Back” from Season 2, a.k.a. the most heartbreaking episode of the entire series, artificial intelligence takes a human form, which proves to be unbearably unsettling.Īnd in “White Christmas,” you don’t just block people on Facebook…you block them in reality! Later, Jon Hamm. In “The Entire History of You,” brain implants make it easy as pie to remember every tiny detail in your life, and guess what? Thanks to technological advances that don’t know when enough is enough, we’re pretty damn close to this in real life. Let’s start with Season 1, where screens track your eye movements and force you to do things you really, really don’t want to do, as we saw in “Fifteen Million Merits.” A literal nightmare. Well, since we don’t know when we can expect to get scared shitless from Season 5, let’s get our fill of Black Mirror madness by revisiting some of the creepiest episodes, presented to you with GIFS. Unfortunately, there’s no word on when the season will air or how many episodes there will be, so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. “Patience is a virtue, but rest easy knowing there is more Black Mirror on the way,” a spokesperson for Netflix told Huffington Post. Each episode makes you think deeply about life and then proceeds to straight-up blow your mind, because the fact that it could all happen in real life is just too much to handle. Me right now.Īnyway, when Season 4 was released in late 2017, fans went absolutely nuts over how incredible the new episodes were…and for good reason. Wow, I actually just scared myself with that thought. Hmmm…what do you think that caption means? I’m going to assume it means Season 5 is when and how we find out that human existence and the world as we know it is just an episode of Black Mirror and we’re not actually humans but simulations, or something. The first half is fun, thrilling horror at its best, but Brooker and Trachtenberg drop the ball with the too-clever, borderline-incomprehensible finale, leaving Playtest as a middling episode at best.The future will be brighter than ever. Cooper is a pretty sympathetic and likable character, but it’s hard to really care about his ultimate fate because it’s confusingly presented and treated like a clever twist rather than a big character moment. After a long middle act, Brooker races through the final ten minutes, giving them a lack of clarity or emotion. Like the worst episodes of Black Mirror, Playtest makes a bit of a mess of its final twists and turns. The long section of Russell on his own, talking to Katie in his earpiece or reacting to the game, is the best sequence of the episode, mostly carried by Russell’s incredibly charismatic turn. Think Denis Villenueve’s Enemy, but so much worse. Trachtenberg turns Playtest into a rollercoaster of a horror experience, starting with CGI spiders and progressively getting scarier until it climaxes with one of the creepiest images I’ve seen in any film or TV show in years. Implanted with a chip by the seemingly-friendly Katie (Wunmi Mosaku), Cooper’s initially fun trip into 3D projections turns dark when he tests out the latest horror game a simulator which works its way into your mind and confronts you with your darkest fears.Īfter a slow but mildly charming start in which Cooper spends the night with an English woman and reveals he’s recovering from the death of his Father, Playtest really kicks into gear when Cooper starts his horror experience, spending the night in that creepiest of locations an abandoned old house. A terrifying mix of creepy locations, jump scares, and disorientating storytelling, the episode is so effectively scary that it takes a while to realise how completely ludicrous it is.ġ0 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg helms the episode, which sees broke American backpacker Cooper (the excellent Wyatt Russell) volunteer as a video game tester for a mysterious new virtual reality project. Black Mirror has flirted with the horror genre before, but not even White Bear was a full on assault on the senses like Playtest is.
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