The video game episode is titled 'Striking Vipers,' after the new VR game, and it's my favorite of the three, because I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. TV Reviews 'Black Mirror' And 'Electric Dreams' Prove It: The Anthology Show Is Back And a third - the most haunting and daring of the three - is about two buddies who try out a new, virtual reality version of a favorite hand-to-hand combat video game they played some 10 years earlier. Another is about a driver for an Uber-type company who blames a social media company for his personal tragedy.

One story is about a pop star whose personality is marketed in an Alexa-style computer figurine. Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones head the team behind this show, which uses the technology of today - and the possible technology of tomorrow - to frame, inform or drive its stories.īrooker wrote all three of these new episodes, and their scope is as wide as their impact is deep. Watching Black Mirror's three brand-new installments on Netflix makes it clear that the series, in our current TV universe, claims and holds the fantasy anthology series crown. Not only were they unworthy of The Twilight Zone of old, but they also weren't nearly as good, or as smart, as a show that had begun in England in 2011, Black Mirror. When CBS All Access unveiled its new version of The Twilight Zone earlier this year, the general consensus was that the initial episodes in the new series had fallen short of Rod Serling's original version.

In the first episode of Black Mirror Season 5, Anthony Mackie (left) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II play two estranged college friends who reunite later in life over a virtual reality video game.

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