Black Mirror

I think that the Netflix Original Black Mirror is the best show on Netflix. It is a science fiction series with no continuous story line. It is full of thrilling and unpredictable episodes that are very entertaining. Many of these episodes are an hour or more, so in a sense it's like the episodes are movies because of the length and quality of the movie. This dystopian series shows the advancements in technology and the faults it can bring to society. All of these obscure attributes make this show one of the best ever made.

One of my favorite episodes is called “Playtest” it is about a man who went on a trip around the world. He visited countries like Italy, Australia and France. On his last stop before he went back home to America he was looking for a job to get more money for his trip. He used an app to find a job and came across a post to test out a new gaming system. He took the job and told a girl he had met about it. She asked him if he could take some pictures of it for her. So he went to the gaming company headquarters and was told to keep his phone off. He was testing out a game and when the worker left the room he took his phone out and took pictures of the gaming system. This proves to be his downfall because he tests out another gaming system where he is put into the game and can feel and experience everything that happens. This gaming system taps into your mind and finds out your biggest fears. Since he had his phone on it interferes with the game and many tragic events occur.

Another one of my favorite episodes is called “The Entire History of You”. It takes place in a world where most people have these advanced chips in there head right behind one of there ears. The device is called a grain and it keeps track of all the persons memories. People can look back through their memories and analyze what they have experienced. The main character of this episode is a man named Liam who suspects his wife is having an affair with one of her past boyfriends named Jonas. He goes on a drinking bender and wakes up to realize he had crashed his car. He looks back in his memories and he saw that he went to Jonas’s house and confronted him about his wife. He made Jonas delete all of his memories of his wife. While doing this Liam saw Jonas’s memories and realize that they were having an affair.

This show is not for everyone though. One episode is about a princess that gets kidnapped and the only way the kidnapper will return her is if the prime minister has sex with a pig on live tv. Even though this is a weird episode that I did not enjoy, I like that about the because it is very unpredictable. This show always keeps me on my toes and I really enjoy that about it.