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'{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Black Mirror'' episodes}} ''[[Black Mirror]]'' is a British television 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, and 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|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror|title=Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction|last=Brooker|first=Charlie|date=1 December 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=17 December 2011|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref> In September 2015, Netflix commissioned a series of 7212 episodes,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-black-mirror-new-episodes-1201602037/|title=‘Black Mirror’ Lands at Netflix|first=Debra|last=Birnbaum|work=Variety|date=25 September 2015|accessdate=25 August 2017}}</ref> which was later divided into two separate series, the third and fourth, each comprising six episodes.<ref>{{cite web|first=Charlie |last=Brooker |url=https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/760704190725365762 |title=Two seasons of six |publisher=Twitter |date=2 August 2016 |accessdate=14 November 2016}}</ref> {{Aired episodes|2017|12|29|num=19|specials=1|title=Black Mirror|uk=y|released=y|finished=4}} ==Series overview== <onlyinclude>{{Series overview | color1 = #101113 | link1 = <includeonly>List of Black Mirror episodes</includeonly>#Series 1 (2011) | episodes1 = 3 | start1 = {{Start date|2011|12|4|df=y}} | end1 = {{End date|2011|12|18|df=y}} | network1 = [[Channel 4]] | color2 = #11A7F1 | link2 = <includeonly>List of Black Mirror episodes</includeonly>#Series 2 (2013) | episodes2 = 3 | start2 = {{Start date|2013|2|11|df=y}} | end2 = {{End date|2013|2|25|df=y}} | color2S = #C0BBB8 | link2S = <includeonly>List of Black Mirror episodes</includeonly>#Special (2014) | linkT2S = Special | start2S = {{Start date|2014|12|16|df=y}} | color3 = #0B0D45 | link3 = <includeonly>List of Black Mirror episodes</includeonly>#Series 3 (2016) | episodes3 = 6 | start3 = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} | end3 = start | network3 = [[Netflix]] | color4 = #92BAB9 | link4 = <includeonly>List of Black Mirror episodes</includeonly>#Series 4 (2017) | episodes4 = 6 | start4 = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} | end4 = start }}</onlyinclude> ==Episodes== ===Series 1 (2011)=== {{Episode table |background=#101113 |overall=5 |series=5 |title=20 |director=15 |writer=30 |airdate=15 |viewers=10 |country=UK |viewersR=<ref name="viewers">{{cite web|url=http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30|title=Top 30 Programmes |publisher=[[BARB]]|accessdate=19 April 2015}}</ref> |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 1 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[The National Anthem (Black Mirror)|The National Anthem]] |DirectedBy = Otto Bathurst |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|12|4|df=y}} |Viewers = 2.07 |ShortSummary = Princess Susannah, a member of the British royal family, has been kidnapped. To return the Princess, the kidnapper demands that the country's Prime Minister, Michael Callow, has sexual intercourse with a pig on live television, otherwise he will kill her. Callow refuses to be blackmailed, but public opinion is gradually turning against him. Security forces are trying to locate the kidnapper, but every effort fails. Under pressure, Callow finally agrees to fulfill the demand. The British people gather in public places and watch the shocking broadcast, with no one realising that the kidnapper has already released the Princess, thirty minutes before Callow's sex act began. The kidnapper commits suicide by hanging and he is later revealed to be an artist, who planned the debacle in order to make a statement on people's obsession with the media. One year later, Callow's approval ratings have fully recovered, but his relationship with his wife has suffered a heavy blow. ---- ''Starring'': [[Rory Kinnear]] and [[Lindsay Duncan]]. |LineColor = 101113 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 2 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = [[Fifteen Million Merits]] |DirectedBy = [[Euros Lyn]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker & [[Konnie Huq|Kanak Huq]]<!--Credited on screen as "Kanak Huq" – Do not change.--> |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|12|11|df=y}} |Viewers = 1.52 |ShortSummary = Bing feels trapped living in an enclosed, automated space, as a member of a society that rides power-generating stationary bikes in exchange for "merits", a form of currency they can use to buy things they need. One day, he hears a girl named Abi singing in the bathroom and falls in love with her. He decides to gift her fifteen million merits, that she can use to buy a ticket for a talent show. Abi accepts and enters the contest, where she is given a psychotropic beverage to drink before she goes on stage. The judges are impressed with her singing, but they suggest she is better suited for pornography. Abi accepts their offer, unable to think clearly. Bing returns to the stationary bikes, determined to earn back the merits he needs to enter the contest himself, and finally manages to buy a new ticket. When he enters the stage, he takes the opportunity to express his indignation and threatens to commit suicide, while other members are watching in the audience. When he finishes talking, the judges offer him a weekly show, where he will have the opportunity to rant about the system. Bing accepts their offer. ---- ''Starring'': [[Daniel Kaluuya]], [[Jessica Brown Findlay]], and [[Rupert Everett]]. |LineColor = 101113 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 3 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = [[The Entire History of You]] |DirectedBy = Brian Welsh |WrittenBy = [[Jesse Armstrong]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|12|18|df=y}} |Viewers = 0.87 |ShortSummary = People have implanted a "grain" behind their ear, which allows them to record everything they see and hear. Using a remote, a user can perform a "re-do", playing back their memories directly to their eye or to a video monitor. At a dinner party, Liam is suspicious of his wife Ffion's behaviour towards a man named Jonas. Returning home, Ffion admits that she used to be in a relationship with him. The next morning, Liam drunkenly heads to Jonas' house and forces him to delete every memory of sexual intercourse he had with Ffion. In the memories appearing on the monitor, Liam notices one from the time when he and Ffion were already in a relationship. Liam, afraid that he might not be the real father to his child, returns home and demands that Ffion shows him the re-do of that specific sexual encounter, in order to prove that they had used a condom. The re-do verifies that the two of them had unprotected sex. Sometime later, having been left alone in his house, Liam goes to the bathroom and uses a razor blade to cut out the grain from behind his ear. ---- ''Starring'': [[Toby Kebbell]] and [[Jodie Whittaker]]. |LineColor = 101113 }} }} ===Series 2 (2013)=== {{Episode table |background=#11A7F1 |overall=5 |series=5 |title=20 |director=15 |writer=30 |airdate=15 |viewers=10 |country=UK |viewersR=<ref name="viewers" /> |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 4 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[Be Right Back]] |DirectedBy = [[Owen Harris (director)|Owen Harris]] |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|2|11|df=y}} |Viewers = 2.01 |ShortSummary = Ash lives with his girlfriend Martha, spending a lot of time on social media, until one day he dies in a traffic accident. A few days later, Martha finds out that she is pregnant and decides to use a new technology that is able to simulate Ash's voice and personality on the phone, based on his social media profile and other audiovisual material. This service helps her overcome her despair, until one day she accidentally drops her phone and panics. The artificial Ash tells her of the service's experimental stage, in which she agrees to have the replica transferred into a synthetic body, almost identical to Ash. However, Martha realises that the android is not able to replicate the small details in her loved one's behaviour and starts distancing herself from it. Finally, Martha takes the artificial Ash to a cliff and orders it to jump off. As it begins to follow the order, Martha expresses her frustration that Ash would not have simply obeyed. As a response, the android starts begging for its life. Unable to get rid of it, she ends up keeping the android locked in the attic, where a few years later her little daughter visits it every weekend. ---- ''Starring'': [[Hayley Atwell]] and [[Domhnall Gleeson]]. |LineColor = 11A7F1 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 5 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = [[White Bear (Black Mirror)|White Bear]] |DirectedBy = Carl Tibbetts |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|2|18|df=y}} |Viewers = 1.69 |ShortSummary = A woman wakes up in a house with amnesia. She notices people on the street recording her on their phones, but when she speaks to them they ignore her. When a masked man opens fire at her with a shotgun, she flees and meets Jem, another woman running away from the "hunters". Jem explains that the people recording her have been affected by a signal that appeared on their screens, while the hunters are unaffected people acting sadistically. Τhe woman follows Jem in her plan to reach the transmitter and destroy it. They finally reach the facilities, where two more hunters attack them. The woman manages to wrestle a shotgun away, but when she pulls the trigger it only sprays confetti, revealing that everything was staged. The woman learns that her name is Victoria Skillane and she has been found guilty for her part in the brutal killing of a young girl. She has been sentenced to undergo this psychological torture daily in the "White Bear Justice Park", where visitors are allowed to record her daily suffering. Victoria is returned to the house where she awoke and has her memory of the day's events wiped clean, in an extremely painful procedure. ---- ''Starring'': [[Lenora Crichlow]] and [[Michael Smiley]]. |LineColor = 11A7F1 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 6 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = [[The Waldo Moment]] |DirectedBy = Bryn Higgins |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|2|25|df=y}} |Viewers = 1.28 |ShortSummary = Jamie Salter is a comedian controlling a vulgar computer-animated bear named Waldo on a late-night show. The character becomes popular with the British public and a pilot for a series is commissioned. Jamie reluctantly agrees to have Waldo enter an upcoming by-election to promote the pilot, having no interest in politics himself. Waldo is projected onto a screen on the side of a van and targets the Conservative candidate Liam Monroe by following him around during his campaign. Jamie sleeps with the Labour candidate Gwendolyn Harris, with whom he starts falling in love. When Gwendolyn follows her campaign manager's advice and distances herself from Jamie, he exposes her publicly as a career politician. Waldo gains more public support, attracting American interest for global branding, but Jamie rejects the idea. On the final day of the campaign trail, he begs the public not to vote for Waldo, but the producer of the show seizes control of the character and urges the public to attack Jamie. Monroe wins the election, with Waldo coming second and Gwendolyn third. In the future, Jamie wakes up homeless in a dystopian police state, with Waldo's face appearing on every screen on the streets. ---- ''Starring'': [[Daniel Rigby]], [[Chloe Pirrie]], and [[Jason Flemyng]]. |LineColor = 11A7F1 }} }} ===Special (2014)=== {{Episode table |background=#C0BBB8 |forceoverall=y |overall=5 |title=25 |director=15 |writer=30 |airdate=15 |viewers=10 |country=UK |viewersR=<ref name="viewers" /> |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 7 |Title = [[White Christmas (Black Mirror)|White Christmas]] |DirectedBy = Carl Tibbetts |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|12|16|df=y}} |Viewers = 1.66 |ShortSummary = On Christmas Day, Matt and Joe start talking about their past for the first time, after five years that they have been stationed together in a remote cabin. Matt used to help single men seduce women. His clients had optical implants, that allowed him to see through their eyes and give them advice in real-time using the "Eye-Link" technology. His main profession, however, was subjugating artificial copies of clients' consciousness, stored into bean-sized chips called "cookies", into docile personal assistants in charge of running smart houses. Joe reveals that after a domestic squabble, his pregnant girlfriend Beth "blocked" him, using a technology that turned them into incomprehensible pixelated blurs to each other. The block lasted for years, preventing him from talking to Beth or the child, until Beth died in an accident. Joe found the child in Beth father's cabin, but the man told him that the little girl was not his daughter. Angered, Joe bashed his head with an object and left. After Joe tells Matt that the girl also died in the blizzard, trying to get help for her grandfather, it is revealed that everything is taking place inside Joe's cookie, where Matt was trying to extract Joe's confession, in exchange for his own release from prison. Due to his Eye-Link-related voyeurism, Matt is registered as a sex offender, resulting in him being universally blocked following his release. Joe's artificial consciousness remains trapped in the cabin, having its time perception changed to 1,000 years a minute. ---- ''Starring'': [[Jon Hamm]], [[Rafe Spall]], [[Oona Chaplin]], and [[Natalia Tena]]. |LineColor = C0BBB8 }} }} ===Series 3 (2016)=== {{Episode table |background=#0B0D45 |overall=5 |series=5 |title=20 |director=15 |writer=30 |airdate=25 |released=y |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 8 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[Nosedive]] |DirectedBy = [[Joe Wright]] |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s=[[Charlie Brooker]]|t=[[Rashida Jones]] & [[Michael Schur|Mike Schur]]}} |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} |ShortSummary = In a society where one's social rating with others greatly influences one's life, a woman tries to improve her own rating to afford an ideal apartment by giving an appealing speech at her best friend's wedding. ''Starring'': [[Bryce Dallas Howard]], [[Alice Eve]], [[Cherry Jones]], and [[James Norton (actor)|James Norton]]. |LineColor = 0B0D45 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 9 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = [[Playtest (Black Mirror)|Playtest]] |DirectedBy = [[Dan Trachtenberg]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} |ShortSummary = A man, stranded in England after a banking error, offers to participate in a playtest of an [[augmented reality]] video game for funds. ''Starring'': [[Wyatt Russell]], [[Hannah John-Kamen]], [[Wunmi Mosaku]], and [[Ken Yamamura]]. |LineColor = 0B0D45 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 10 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = [[Shut Up and Dance (Black Mirror)|Shut Up and Dance]] |DirectedBy = [[James Watkins (director)|James Watkins]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker & William Bridges |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} |ShortSummary = A young man is blackmailed by unseen hackers to follow a set of directives or else incriminating footage of him will be released to the world. As the story unfolds, he realises that he is not the only one being affected by the hackers' ill intentions. ''Starring'': [[Alex Lawther]] and [[Jerome Flynn]]. |LineColor = 0B0D45 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 11 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = [[San Junipero]] |DirectedBy = [[Owen Harris (director)|Owen Harris]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} |ShortSummary = In a virtual space, the outgoing Kelly becomes friends with the more reserved Yorkie, and helps her to come to accept her repressed sexuality. ''Starring'': [[Gugu Mbatha-Raw]] and [[Mackenzie Davis]]. |LineColor = 0B0D45 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 12 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = [[Men Against Fire]] |DirectedBy = [[Jakob Verbruggen]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Soldiers attempt to kill off mutant "roaches" to protect the rest of society, aided by augmented reality implants. ''Starring'': [[Malachi Kirby]], [[Madeline Brewer]], [[Ariane Labed]], [[Sarah Snook]], and [[Michael Kelly (American actor)|Michael Kelly]]. |LineColor = 0B0D45 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 13 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = [[Hated in the Nation (Black Mirror)|Hated in the Nation]] |DirectedBy = [[James Hawes]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} |ShortSummary = A series of murders is tied to Autonomous Drone Insects, mechanical replacements for [[colony collapse disorder]], and social media [[hashtag]]s. ''Starring'': [[Kelly Macdonald]], [[Faye Marsay]], and [[Benedict Wong]]. |LineColor = 0B0D45 }} }} ===Series 4 (2017)=== {{Episode table|background=#92BAB9 |overall=5 |series=5 |title=20 |director=15 |writer=30 |airdate=25 |released=y |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 14 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[USS Callister]] |DirectedBy = [[Toby Haynes]] |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] & William Bridges |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} |ShortSummary = A woman wakes up on a space ship where the crew praise their all knowing and fearless captain, who has used DNA scans to simulate real people within his game. ''Starring'': [[Jesse Plemons]], [[Cristin Milioti]], [[Jimmi Simpson]], [[Michaela Coel]], and [[Billy Magnussen]]. |LineColor = 92BAB9 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 15 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = [[Arkangel (Black Mirror)|Arkangel]] |DirectedBy = [[Jodie Foster]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} |ShortSummary = After nearly losing her daughter, a mother invests in a new technology that allows her to keep track of her child. ''Starring'': [[Rosemarie DeWitt]], [[Brenna Harding]], and [[Owen Teague]]. |LineColor = 92BAB9 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 16 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = [[Crocodile (Black Mirror)|Crocodile]] |DirectedBy = [[John Hillcoat]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} |ShortSummary = A woman's past comes back to haunt her while an insurance adjuster questions people about an accident with a memory machine. ''Starring'': [[Andrea Riseborough]], [[Kiran Sonia Sawar]], [[Andrew Gower (actor)|Andrew Gower]], Anthony Welch, and [[Claire Rushbrook]]. |LineColor = 92BAB9 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 17 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = [[Hang the DJ (Black Mirror)|Hang the DJ]] |DirectedBy = [[Tim Van Patten]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} |ShortSummary = A new dating app allows the matched couples to be told how long their relationships will last. ''Starring'': [[Georgina Campbell]] and [[Joe Cole (actor)|Joe Cole]]. |LineColor = 92BAB9 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 18 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = [[Metalhead (Black Mirror)|Metalhead]] |DirectedBy = [[David Slade]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} |ShortSummary = A woman attempts to survive in a dangerous land full of robotic guard-dogs. ''Starring'': [[Maxine Peake]]. |LineColor = 92BAB9 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 19 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = [[Black Museum (Black Mirror)|Black Museum]] |DirectedBy = [[Colm McCarthy (director)|Colm McCarthy]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} |ShortSummary = A woman enters a museum where the proprietor tells her stories relating to the artifacts. ''Starring'': [[Douglas Hodge]] and [[Letitia Wright]]. |LineColor = 92BAB9 }} }} ==References== {{reflist|30em}} ==External links== * [https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888 ''Black Mirror''] at [[Netflix]] * [http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/ ''Black Mirror''] at [[Channel 4]] * {{IMDb episodes|2085059|Black Mirror}} {{Black Mirror}} {{Charlie Brooker}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Black Mirror episodes}} [[Category:Black Mirror episodes| ]] [[Category:Lists of anthology television series episodes]] [[Category:Lists of British drama television series episodes]] [[Category:Lists of British science fiction television series episodes]]'