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Critic Reviews
Jun 15, 2023
Season 6 Review:
Fans of the show’s tech-dystopia thought exercises might be disappointed to see the series cast them off altogether, and the shift in focus still yields as many misses as hits. But by breaking from those old constraints, Black Mirror sets itself up for a freer, wilder, more intriguing future.
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Jun 15, 2023
Season 6 Review:
Season 6 of Black Mirror has more misses than hits, but at least there are two winners among the five episodes. Demon 79 shows that Charlie Brooker’s experimentation outside of the traditional Black Mirror box can pay off, while Joan Is Awful delivers some funny meta-humor that mixes well with the show’s classic dark spin on science fiction.
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The IndependentJun 14, 2023
Season 6 Review:
Irreverent, scatological, and nightmarishly claustrophobic, “Joan is Awful” is an excellent instalment in Black Mirror’s catalogue of Orwellian farces. .... “Loch Henry” frequently shapes like it’s about to burst into full horror. Whether through restraint or lack of ambition, that generic metamorphosis never happens, and ultimately the episode becomes a little limp. .... “Beyond the Sea” has the key to a great Black Mirror chapter: slow-burning dread and myriad ways for things to go wrong. .... ["Mazey Day" is] Slender (it’s just 40 minutes long) and scattershot.
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RogerEbert.comJun 5, 2019
Jan 2, 2018
Season 4 Review:
There is, as ever, lots to chew over and choke on in the new episodes. But the show is less incisive than it was. ... As provocative and to the point as Black Mirror’s speculative technology is, it keeps the new episodes from exploring more flawed developments that might make for more interesting episodes.
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Dec 28, 2017
Season 4 Review:
"U.S.S. Callister" feels ambitious and boundless, a rarity for the series. On a season in which Black Mirror drifts yet further away from many viewers’ real sense of dystopia, this dispatch from deep space will remind you of science fiction’s power to cut to the very heart of modern concerns.
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Dec 21, 2017
Season 4 Review:
Too often, this season skews too heavily toward bleakness, is weak on character development, and strains so hard to shock that it ultimately frustrates more than transfixes. All six episodes, directed by filmmakers ranging from Jodie Foster to David Slade, are elevated by strong performances and incredibly detailed production design that makes the settings feel credible, even when the characters in those settings engage in behavior that isn’t.
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The PlaylistApr 11, 2025
Season 7 Review:
It doesn’t seem shy in its thinly-veiled attempts to replicate what happened before, recycling story after story with an ever-present struggle to balance the humanity with the tech; the winner, in each instance, remains left to the viewer, and it’s in this that the divide between those who continue to support Brooker’s latest season and those who left the party long ago continues to stay put.
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SlashfilmApr 9, 2025
Season 7 Review:
Despite some new twists and turns and serious star power via the very talented Milioti, "USS Callister: Into Infinity" never justifies returning to these characters, and the jokey conclusion feels particularly bland. And "bland" ultimately sums up "Black Mirror" season 7 as a whole.
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Jun 15, 2023
Jun 15, 2023
Season 6 Review:
The five-episode sixth season of Black Mirror (June 15, Netflix) offers the usual skewering of our grim era’s tech and media and politics, to intermittently engaging effect. But overall, Brooker’s arguments feel creaky, his observations arriving, in some cases, years late.
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Dec 28, 2017
Season 4 Review:
In execution, the fourth series is remarkably patchy ... As a body of work it’s more interesting than satisfying, although "USS Callister," the standout episode, is spectacular, while "Hang the DJ" has the kind of winning optimism that made Season 3’s Emmy-winning "San Junipero" such a hit.
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The IndependentApr 9, 2025
Season 7 Review:
Too many episodes rely on logic-straining mechanics, too few have the emotional sucker punch of “San Junipero” or “Be Right Back”. The horror too, of episodes like “Shut Up and Dance” or “White Christmas”, has given way to a repetitive fear of digital imprisonment. In short, this latest season of Black Mirror just doesn’t carry the same punch that it used to.
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RogerEbert.comDec 28, 2017
Season 4 Review:
This is, as a whole, the least satisfying season of "Black Mirror" so far. Unlike last season, which had at least two notable peaks ("Nosedive" and "San Junipero"), season four has only one real high, and it’s somewhat telling that it’s the episode that feels the least like a chapter of "Black Mirror."
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ColliderDec 6, 2017
Season 4 Review:
The allure of Black Mirror has always been his incisive sensibility, riddled with the same anxiety and fear of surveillance as the viewers who love it. But if this new batch of episodes are any indication, the series is merely treading water, as Brooker’s paranoid approach to an imagined future begins to lose its sense of nuance.
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