Black Mirror

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Season 6
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 4, 2011
Season #: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 72 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 72
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 72
  3. Negative: 19 out of 72

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  1. johnbobs1
    Jul 3, 2023
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This season feels like a bit of a downgrade for Black Mirror as a whole, both in terms of quality of most of the episodes and the themes contained within.
    Only two of the episodes are particularly tech based. Beyond the sea is easily the best episode of the season; Dark, Tragic, thought provoking and typical Black Mirror in feel. Joan is awful manages to be quite interesting for about half an hour, before descending into corny and celebrity cameo laden rubbish in its final few minutes. The other episodes are all okay, without feeling particularly profound or meaningful to watch and certainly not very black mirror-esque, with their horror undertones. A series which generally tries to take the show down a different road, and doesn't really succeed in being anything more than an OK drama series.    … Expand
  2. Winterstree
    Jun 18, 2023
    4
    Episode 1 was good, except for being extremely silly.
    2 didn't feel like a Black Mirror episode at all. Neither did 4 or 5.
    4 and 5 were awful, in fact.
    Episode 3 was excellently performed and shot, but there wasn't much to it.
    Incredibly disappointing season compared to all the previous.
  3. panther49
    Jun 16, 2023
    5
    Ep 1: 3/5. Recursion is cool.
    Ep 2: 5/5. Actually good interesting story.
    Ep 3: 2/5. Predicted what would happen within the first ten minutes.
    Ep 4: 1/5. Don't care.
    Ep 5: 1/5. Anti-white racism.
  4. Voodoo123
    Jul 1, 2023
    6
    Joan is awful 6/10
    Loch henry 7/10
    Beyond the sea 5/10
    Mayzwy day 6/10
    Demon 79 8/10

    6.8/10 Overall

    Somewhat disappointed with this season. It leans towards fantasy and horror and away from the titular black mirror of technophobic nightmare scapes from previous seasons (I assume this is because the world itself has slowly become one!). Interesting and entertaining for the most part.
  5. UncleWillard
    Jun 16, 2023
    6
    I was surprised at the 68 after seeing the first two episodes. Sad to hear they had to have a woke one, but that's pretty much required of any franchise these days. And 5 episodes? After how many years? C'mon man, 8 at least.
  6. AlleyKatPr0
    Jun 16, 2023
    4
    Total and utter disgust at how someone deals with bullies...by torturing them.

    Just because someone was bullied when they were young, does not mean they can write a TV show in which there is nothing cathartic to enjoy, just pure joy in seeing people suffer.

    Darkness is only seductive if you have not been taught how to look for the light.
  7. bertobellamy
    Jul 15, 2023
    5
    Episode 1: kind of funny, but very cynical and silly at the end.
    Episode 2: good and tragic.
    Episode 3: the best one; makes you wonder about how avatars would be received by society.
    Episode 4: the worst one; the supernatural element is dumb.
    Episode 5: not bad; it reminded me of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, but it doesn't fit into Black Mirror.
  8. shoulderoforion
    Jun 18, 2023
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. In the last Episode she was an inmate in White Bear, probably it's first, how is no one getting how brilliant Episode 5 is? It's so entirely frustrating to live in this world with the rest of you sometimes.… Expand
  9. Irca
    Jun 23, 2023
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bonne saison, mais la plupart des épisodes perdent l'essence de Black Mirror. Tous les épisodes ne tournent pas autour d'une technologie en particulier et je trouve ça dommage… Expand
  10. nevmerzhitsky
    Jul 26, 2023
    4
    Episodes 1 and 3 are really good. But all other ruins the Black Mirror vector and genre... It's just lost season.

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Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 25
  3. Negative: 1 out of 25
  1. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Sep 10, 2024
    80
    While the new collection isn’t perfect – Black Mirror still has a tendency to get knocked off course by an overload of Hollywood presence – this is an assured return to form: a much tastier geek-noir pick’n’mix.
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  2. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Shirley Li
    Jun 23, 2023
    70
    Black Mirror’s new stories are more concerned with changing the show’s reputation as a speculative science-fiction series than with actually critiquing technology.
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  3. i
    Reviewed by: Emily Bootle
    Jun 20, 2023
    70
    There are familiar (maybe even obvious) themes here: data harvesting, terrifying small print, surveillance by Big Brother. Yet “Joan is Awful” doesn’t succumb to predictable tropes, retaining a winking sense of humour. [The score is the average of the reviews for the five episodes.]
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