The show has a strange knack of predicting the future , but it is even better at showing us what is going on in the present and making us feel really, really weird in the process.
Credit: Netflix/Black Mirror
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So, most people have seen Black Mirror Series 4 by now, and if you haven't, why are you reading this article? Go and watch it, then come back.
As with most of the other series', viewers have been left feeling pretty cut up, shocked, and full of terror about the direction the world is taking around us.
This is not to say everyone loves it, but it has a strange way of making you feel uneasy by presenting something that seems completely impossible that becomes more and more possible as you continue to think about it.
This leaves you at the end of the episode, where there is usually a twist that brings everything into sharp focus, feeling uneasy.
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This could be because we see ourselves in the show and recognise that the situations that the characters are in are not so far removed from our own predicaments, give or take the occasional pigs head or virtual reality universe.
In fact, this is the whole point - the series' creator Charlie Brooker has previously given interviews explaining why the show is even called Black Mirror in the first place.
In an interview with Channel 4, he said: "What I took it to mean was when a screen is off - when a screen is off it looks like a black mirror,"
"Because any TV, any LCD, any iPhone, any iPad - something like that - if you just stare at it, it looks like a black mirror, and there's something cold and horrifying about that.
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"And it was such a fitting title for the show, I mean I don't know what else we would've called it - Spooky Technology Time?! It would've been rubbish.
"I quite like the fact that people are watching it on their TV or on their laptop, or their smartphone or whatever, and then as the end credits start running and the screen cuts to black, they see themselves reflected."
Whilst I would have definitely watched Spooky Technology Time as well, the explanation adds another level to the creepy satire of the show.
Some people on Twitter have been going mad about the show. One Twitter user said:
Not everyone is so impressed though, as one user said:
That negativity is most likely just a reflection of how much their fragile little mind was blown by whatever episode he was watching, which seems to be the main reaction, overall.
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For every one saying it's fantastic, or dreadful, there are hundreds that say something that basically follows this user's sentiments:
True, true. But, love it or hate it, we're all in it now.
Topics: black mirror, TV and Film, Interesting
