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'{{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Black Mirror'' episodes}} ''[[Black Mirror (TV series)|Black Mirror]]'' is a British television drama series created by [[Charlie Brooker]]. The series is produced by [[Zeppotron]] for [[Endemol]]. Regarding the programme's content and structure, Brooker noted, "each episode has a different cast, a different setting, even a different reality. But they're all about the way we live now – and the way we might be living in 10 minutes' time if we're clumsy."<ref name="guardian_a">{{cite news|title=Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror|accessdate=17 December 2011|newspaper=guardian.co.uk|date=1 December 2011}}</ref> ==Series overview== <onlyinclude>{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! style="padding: 0 8px;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"| Season ! style="padding: 0 8px;" rowspan="2"| Episodes ! colspan="3"| Originally aired |- ! [[Season premiere|First aired]] ! [[Season finale|Last aired]] ! Distributor |- | style="background:#000000;"| | [[List of Black Mirror episodes#Series 1 (2011)|1]] | 3 | {{Start date|2011|12|4||df=y}} | {{End date|2011|12|18||df=y}} |rowspan=3|[[Channel 4]] |- | style="background:#0000CF;"| | [[List of Black Mirror episodes#Series 2 (2013)|2]] | 3 | {{Start date|2013|2|11||df=y}} | {{End date|2013|2|25||df=y}} |- | style="background:#A22A2B;"| | [[List of Black Mirror episodes#Special (2014)|Special]] | 1 |colspan=2| {{Start date|2014|12|16||df=y}} |- | style="background:#488214;"| | [[List of Black Mirror episodes#Series 3|3]] | 12 |colspan=2| {{TableTBA}} | [[Netflix]] |- |}</onlyinclude> ==Episodes== ===Series 1 (2011)=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="width:100%" |- style="color:white" ! style="background:#000000; width:4%;"| No.<br>overall ! style="background:#000000; width:4%;"| No. in<br>series ! style="background:#000000; width:12%;"| Title ! style="background:#000000; width:30%;"| Starring ! style="background:#000000; width:12%;"| Directed by ! style="background:#000000; width:13%;"| Written by ! style="background:#000000; width:15%;"| Original air date ! style="background:#000000; width:10%;"| UK viewers<br>(millions)<ref name=viewers>{{cite web|url=http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30|title=Top 30 Programmes - BARB|work=barb.co.uk|accessdate=19 April 2015}}</ref> {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 1 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[The National Anthem (Black Mirror)|The National Anthem]] |Aux1 = [[Rory Kinnear]] and [[Lindsay Duncan]], with [[Donald Sumpter]], [[Tom Goodman-Hill]], [[Anna Wilson-Jones]] and [[Lydia Wilson]] |DirectedBy = Otto Bathurst |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = 4 December 2011 |Viewers = 2.07 |ShortSummary = Princess Susannah ([[Lydia Wilson]]) is kidnapped and the ransom demand is that Prime Minister Michael Callow ([[Rory Kinnear]]) must have [[Bestiality|sexual intercourse]] with a [[pig]] on live national television. Attempts to substitute a porn actor and digitally replace the actor's face with the PM's are inadvertently disclosed on social media. The PM, and his wife, are reluctant for him to do it but following this revelation support drops and his aide, who organised the attempted substitution without the PM's knowledge, says his physical safety is no longer guaranteed. He completes the act. Unknown to everyone the princess had been released half an hour earlier. Her kidnapper was an artist attempting to make a piece of performance art who committed suicide after releasing her. A year later news reports show the PM is at an all time high in popularity but his wife who supports him publicly won't talk to him in private. |LineColor = 000000 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 2 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = [[Fifteen Million Merits (Black Mirror)|Fifteen Million Merits]] |Aux1 = [[Daniel Kaluuya]], [[Jessica Brown Findlay]] and [[Rupert Everett]], with [[Julia Davis]] and [[Bashy|Ashley Thomas]] |DirectedBy = [[Euros Lyn]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker & [[Konnie Huq|Kanak Huq]]<!--Credited on screen as "Kanak Huq" – Do not change.--> |OriginalAirDate = 11 December 2011 |Viewers = 1.52 |ShortSummary = In a future where everyone but the social elite lives underground and must cycle on exercise bikes in order to earn a currency called "Merit" and to power their surroundings, Bingham "Bing" Madsen ([[Daniel Kaluuya]]) uses his entire fortune to get the object of his affections, Abi ([[Jessica Brown Findlay]]), an audition on a reality talent show. Abi auditions as a singer but is instead offered a job as a porn actress which she accepts to escape the extreme drudgery. Distraught by this Bing exercises hard to earn his own audition. He threatens to commit suicide on screen while delivering an impassioned speech on the inauthenticity of their entire society. Ironically, he is offered a job to twice weekly deliver a similar speech which he accepts and escapes the drudgery. |LineColor = 000000 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 3 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = [[The Entire History of You (Black Mirror)|The Entire History of You]] |Aux1 = [[Toby Kebbell]] and [[Jodie Whittaker]], with [[Tom Cullen]] and [[Jimi Mistry]] |DirectedBy = Brian Welsh |WrittenBy = [[Jesse Armstrong]] |OriginalAirDate = 18 December 2011 |Viewers = 0.87 |ShortSummary = Almost everyone has an implant allows them to replay everything they see or hear, even displaying it for others to see on tv screens. Liam Foxwell ([[Toby Kebbell]]) grows suspicious over his wife's behaviour around an old friend of hers and in replay proves to her that her story about him is full of lies: a one week fling in her youth becomes a one month fling becomes a serious six month relationship. Liam assaults the man and forces him to delete on screen all encounters with Liam's wife. He sees an image of the painting hanging above their marital bed recorded at the time Liam's child was conceived. He confronts his wife and catches her out in more lies about already deleting the encounter and her insisting on the use of contraceptives with the other man calling into question the child's sire. Liam is later shown walking around his now empty house reviewing earlier and happier times with his wife. Later, frustrated, he takes out his implant with a blade and pliers. |LineColor = 000000 }} |} ===Series 2 (2013)=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="width:100%" |- style="color:white" ! style="background:#0000CF; width:4%;"| No.<br>overall ! style="background:#0000CF; width:4%;"| No. in<br>series ! style="background:#0000CF; width:12%;"| Title ! style="background:#0000CF; width:30%;"| Starring ! style="background:#0000CF; width:12%;"| Directed by ! style="background:#0000CF; width:13%;"| Written by ! style="background:#0000CF; width:15%;"| Original air date ! style="background:#0000CF; width:10%;"| UK viewers<br>(millions)<ref name=viewers/> {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 4 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[Be Right Back (Black Mirror)|Be Right Back]] |Aux1 = [[Hayley Atwell]] and [[Domhnall Gleeson]], with [[Claire Keelan]], [[Sinead Matthews]], Flora Nicholson, Glenn Hanning, Tim Delap and Indira Ainger |DirectedBy = Owen Harris |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = 11 February 2013 |Viewers = 2.01 |ShortSummary = Martha's ([[Hayley Atwell]]) boyfriend Ash ([[Domhnall Gleeson]]) is killed before she learns she is pregnant by him. A friend signs her up, without her permission, for a beta test of software that scans Ash's heavy Internet activity (forum posts, social media accounts) and produces a facsimile of Ash that communicates via email and appears to pass a [[Turing test]] though it fully acknowledges Ash is dead. By uploading videos it becomes able to communicate with her via telephone and it tells her of an experimental process to produce a synthetic flesh [[android (robot)|android]] facsimile of Ash. She pays for this, interacts with it and even uses it for sex, but she finds that it does not act like Ash did, such as obeying literally her orders to leave during a fight, and even getting ready to obey her orders to jump off a cliff. Several years later Martha's daughter takes her birthday cake up to the attic where the Ash [[simulacrum]] resides even though it is not time for the weekly visit, just so she can eat an extra slice of cake herself. |LineColor = 0000CF }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 5 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = [[White Bear (Black Mirror)|White Bear]] |Aux1 = [[Lenora Crichlow]] and [[Michael Smiley]], with [[Tuppence Middleton]], [[Ian Bonar]], Nick Ofield, Russell Barnett and Imani Jackman |DirectedBy = Carl Tibbetts |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = 18 February 2013 |Viewers = 1.69 |ShortSummary = <!-- This summary is longer than the suggested size in the episode template but this is, as that some suggestion notes is worthy of exception, a complex drama. Please bear that in mind when editing it shorter --> When Victoria Skillane ([[Lenora Crichlow]]) wakes up in a chair to find she can't recall anything about her life and a strange signal on her tv screen though she starts having flashbacks about her daughter Jemimah. There are very few people around and all of them are incommunicative, only recording her with their camera-phones. However, she is soon shot at by a man wearing a balaclava. He ignores the voyeurs while pursuing her. She meets a man and a woman who will talk to her. This man is soon killed by the shotgun man. The woman explains that the signal has made most people into voyeurs, some are unaffected and with a lack of law some of these hunt others for their own amusement. The woman and Victoria escape two more attackers, both oddly dressed and wearing masks, and are rescued by another man with a van. Victoria has flashbacks that this man has a safe area in the woods and he says she is right. He explains that the signal can't reach there. Once there he reveals himself as the shotgun man and takes the two women to a clearing filled with his earlier victims but he is shot dead by the unnamed woman. The two women escape in his van and the woman reveals her plan to destroy the White Bear television repeater station as other groups have destroyed other transmitters around Britain. Victoria says that White Bear is a bad place but she is taken there anyway. In the station the two attackers arrive and the woman is killed. Victoria takes her attacker's shotgun and shoots him but all that comes out is confetti. Victoria is over powered and strapped to a chair as the repeater station's internal walls swivel open to the applause of a studio audience. The shotgun man reveals himself as host, the other attackers and victims are actors and the voyeurs are audience members instructed not to talk. Victoria and her husband kidnapped and killed a girl called Jemimah. When Jemimah's white bear cuddly toy was found it became the symbol of the crime. Victoria recorded the murder on her camera-phone and claimed she was forced by her husband. Her husband committed suicide before trial, escaping justice according to public, and the White Bear Correction Facility was created where every day Victoria's memory is wiped and she goes through the same terrifying experience. |LineColor = 0000CF }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 6 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = [[The Waldo Moment (Black Mirror)|The Waldo Moment]] |Aux1 = [[Daniel Rigby]], Chloe Pirrie and [[Jason Flemyng]], with [[Tobias Menzies]], [[Christina Chong]], [[James Lance]] and Michael Shaeffer |DirectedBy = Bryn Higgins |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = 25 February 2013 |Viewers = 1.28 |ShortSummary = Jamie Salter ([[Daniel Rigby]]), a failed comedian who has found unwanted success by performing the voice and movements (via [[performance capture]]) of a blue cartoon bear named Waldo, reluctantly agrees to allow Waldo to stand in an upcoming by-election. He meets the Labour party candidate who is a new to politics and while expecting to lose, the seat is a Tory electorate, is using it as a stepping stone for publicity. The pair sleep together but afterwards she is advised by her campaign manager not to associate with him which upsets Jamie. Waldo becomes unexpectedly popular and during a televised debate Jamie accuses the Tory candidate of being a fraud, not even knowing that his own friend, the former MP who was arrested for paedophilia, was a "kiddy-fiddler" but saying the Labour candidate was even worse and revealing publicly she expected to lose and why. Waldo places second in the by-election, the Tory winning, and the Labour candidate, who genuinely cared for Jamie, says she was going to call him as soon as the election was over. Jaded over the experience and arguing with his boss who owns the character rights, Jamie quits. He ends up living on the streets in a foreign country, assaulted by police officers when he attacks an interactive advertising screen that shows how Waldo has become a huge global phenomenon that would have made him rich. |LineColor = 0000CF }} |} ===Special (2014)=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="width:100%" |- style="color:white" ! style="background:#A22A2B; width:8%;"| No.<br>overall ! style="background:#A22A2B; width:12%;"| Title ! style="background:#A22A2B; width:30%;"| Starring ! style="background:#A22A2B; width:12%;"| Directed by ! style="background:#A22A2B; width:13%;"| Written by ! style="background:#A22A2B; width:15%;"| Original air date ! style="background:#A22A2B; width:10%;"| UK viewers<br>(millions) {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 7 |Title = [[White Christmas (Black Mirror)|White Christmas]] |Aux1 = [[Jon Hamm]], [[Oona Chaplin]] and [[Rafe Spall]] with [[Natalia Tena]] |DirectedBy = Carl Tibbetts |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = 16 December 2014 |Viewers = 1.66 |ShortSummary = |LineColor = A22A2B }} |} ===Series 3=== A third series of 12 episodes has been confirmed and will air on [[Netflix]].<ref>http://tvline.com/2015/09/25/black-mirror-netflix-season-3/</ref> In December 2015, [[Gugu Mbatha-Raw]] and [[Mackenzie Davis]] were confirmed to be starring in the series.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star in Netflix's new Black Mirror series |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/12053212/Gugu-Mbatha-Raw-will-star-in-Netflixs-new-Black-Mirror-series.html|accessdate=1 March 2016|publisher=The Telegraph|date=16 December 2015}}</ref> In February 2016, [[Joe Wright]] was announced to be directing an episode of the series that would star [[Bryce Dallas Howard]] and [[Alice Eve]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Joe Wright To Direct ‘Black Mirror’ Episode For Netflix; Bryce Dallas Howard & Alice Eve To Star|url=http://deadline.com/2016/02/joe-wright-to-direct-black-mirror-ep-for-netflix-bryce-dallas-howard-and-alice-eve-to-star-1201699785/|accessdate=1 March 2016|publisher=Deadline|date=10 February 2016}}</ref> In March 2016, [[Malachi Kirby]] was confirmed as starring in an episode directed by Jakob Verbruggen entitled "Men Against Fire". In April 2016, [[Dan Trachtenberg]] was also confirmed to direct a future episode. Series creator [[Charlie Brooker]] is set to script all twelve installments of the series.<ref>{{cite news|title=Malachi Kirby To Star In Jakob Verbruggen-Directed Episode Of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ |url=http://deadline.com/2016/03/malachi-kirby-to-star-in-black-mirror-netflix-jakob-verbruggen-roots-1201718494/|accessdate=11 March 2016|publisher=Deadline|date=11 March 2016}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Black Mirror episodes}} {{Black Mirror}} {{Charlie Brooker}} [[Category:Lists of British television series episodes]] [[Category:Black Mirror episodes| ]]'