The three episode fifth season of British writer and producer Charlie Brooker’s wildly popular and often imitated horror and sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror (which comes on the heels of the blisteringly ambitious and entertaining choose-your-own-adventure story Bandersnatch) suggests an enterprise that’s losing steam and original ideas in a hurry.
Black Mirror
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the latest and most ambitious experiment in Charlie Brooker’s techno-skeptical anthology series, is engaging, thrilling, and emotionally defined enough to warrant losing the better part of a day trying to figure out its intricacies.
We take a look at three high profile releases from Netflix arriving in time for the holiday viewing season: the feature film Bright, starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton, the Errol Morris documentary series Wormwood, and the return of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror.