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Positive:
86
Mixed:
26
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
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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The Daily BeastJun 16, 2023
Jun 4, 2019
Season 5 Review:
Instead of manipulating our anxiety about technology—something Brooker often accomplished simply by activating viewers’ visceral disgust—the new episodes revel in the ridiculousness of our predicament, achieving a level of detachment that makes the show campy in the same way so many out-of-touch spectacles are campy.
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