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'{{Short description|None}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Black Mirror'' episodes}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} [[File:Charlie Brooker.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Charlie Brooker|[[Charlie Brooker]], creator of ''Black Mirror'']] ''[[Black Mirror]]'' is a British [[science fiction]] anthology series created by [[Charlie Brooker]]. The programme was inspired by ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' and explores technology and its side-effects.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |title=Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror |access-date=4 August 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |last=Brooker|first=Charlie|authorlink=Charlie Brooker |date=1 December 2011 |archive-date=5 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005141925/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror |url-status=live }}</ref> It began on the British television network [[Channel 4]] before moving to the American streaming platform [[Netflix]] and has run for six series between 2011 and 2023. There are 27 episodes and one [[interactive film]], ''[[Black Mirror: Bandersnatch]]''. Episodes vary in length between 40 and 89 minutes and can be watched in any order.<ref name="variety interview">{{Cite web | url = https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/black-mirror-season-4-annabel-jones-interview-1202644294/ | title = 'Black Mirror' Co-Creator Breaks Down Season 4: 'We Want to Be Surprising and Unpredictable' | first = Danielle | last = Turchiano | date = 29 December 2017 | access-date = 1 January 2018 | work = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171231233828/http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/black-mirror-season-4-annabel-jones-interview-1202644294/ | archive-date = 31 December 2017 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Longest">{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-black-mirror-episodes|title=The Best Black Mirror Episodes, Ranked From Worst to Best|work=[[Wired (magazine)|WIRED]]|date=3 May 2022|access-date=19 February 2023|archive-date=12 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112044554/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-black-mirror-episodes|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="shortest">{{cite web|url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a44170793/netflix-black-mirror-mazey-day-episode-explained/|title=Netflix's Black Mirror: Mazey Day episode explained|work=[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]|last=Venn|first=Lydia|date=15 June 2023|accessdate=16 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/watch-the-black-mirror-season-4-episodes-in-this-order-for-the-best-viewing-experience-7690945|title=Watch The 'Black Mirror' Season 4 Episodes In This Order For The Best Viewing Experience|website=[[Bustle (magazine)|Bustle]]|last=Thomas|first=Leah|date=29 December 2017|access-date=2 September 2018|archive-date=2 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902143829/https://www.bustle.com/p/watch-the-black-mirror-season-4-episodes-in-this-order-for-the-best-viewing-experience-7690945|url-status=live}}</ref> Actors rarely appear in more than one episode, though many instalments make small references known as "[[Easter egg (media)|Easter eggs]]" to previous episodes, such as through in-universe news channels and briefly-seen text.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2546951/black-mirror-season-6-big-questions-we-have-about-the-netflix-series|title=Black Mirror Season 6: 5 Big Questions We Have About The Netflix Series|work=Cinema Blend|last=Knight|first=Rich|date=28 May 2020|access-date=5 March 2021|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801143349/https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2546951/black-mirror-season-6-big-questions-we-have-about-the-netflix-series|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/black-mirror-references-easter-eggs-episodes-netflix-1201912263/|title='Black Mirror' Easter Eggs: How All the Episodes Connect in Charlie Brooker's Dark Universe|work=[[IndieWire]]|last=Nguyen|first=Hanh|date=1 January 2018|access-date=10 May 2021|archive-date=6 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106232803/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/black-mirror-references-easter-eggs-episodes-netflix-1201912263/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/black-mirror-easter-eggs-season-five-universe/|title=Black Mirror season five's Easter eggs show how every series is connected in one shared universe|work=[[Radio Times]]|last=Ling|first=Thomas|date=25 June 2019|access-date=10 May 2021|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510143205/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/black-mirror-easter-eggs-season-five-universe/|url-status=live}}</ref> The first two series comprised three episodes each and ran on Channel 4 in December 2011 and February 2013. After discussions for a third series fell through, a special entitled "[[White Christmas (Black Mirror)|White Christmas]]" was commissioned and aired in December 2014.{{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018|pp=100–103}} The following year, Netflix commissioned twelve episodes, later splitting this into two series of six episodes that were released on 21 October 2016 and 29 December 2017.<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 (magazine)|Variety]]|date=25 September 2015|access-date=25 August 2017|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162641/https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-black-mirror-new-episodes-1201602037/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jodie-foster-direct-rosemarie-dewitt-939796|title=Jodie Foster to Direct Rosemarie DeWitt in 'Black Mirror' Episode|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|last=Sandberg|first=Bryn|date=19 October 2016|access-date=5 March 2021|archive-date=11 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211182223/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jodie-foster-direct-rosemarie-dewitt-939796|url-status=live}}</ref> The interactive film ''Bandersnatch'' was spun out from the fifth series due to its complexity, debuting on 28 December 2018, and the delayed fifth series of three episodes premiered on 5 June 2019.<ref name="thr endings">{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/black-mirror-bandersnatch-charlie-brooker-talks-interactive-movie-1171496 |title='Black Mirror's' Interactive Film: How to Navigate 'Bandersnatch' |first=Jackie |last=Strause |date=29 December 2018 |access-date=29 December 2018 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229192502/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/black-mirror-bandersnatch-charlie-brooker-talks-interactive-movie-1171496 |archive-date=29 December 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="thr s5">{{cite web | url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/black-mirrors-charlie-brooker-talks-season-5-1172112 | title = 'Black Mirror' Creator Charlie Brooker Shares Season 5 Update | first = Jackie | last = Strause | date = 2 January 2019 | access-date = 2 January 2019 | work = [[The Hollywood Reporter]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190102182001/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/black-mirrors-charlie-brooker-talks-season-5-1172112 | archive-date = 2 January 2019 | url-status = live }}</ref> Netflix confirmed in May 2022 that a sixth series was in production,<ref name="Series Six Confirmation">{{cite web|last=Ravindran|first=Manori|title='Black Mirror' Returns: New Series In the Works at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)|url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/black-mirror-season-6-netflix-1235266891/|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=16 May 2022|access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref> which was released on 15 June 2023 and consists of five episodes.<ref name="THR S6">{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/black-mirror-netflix-release-date-season-6-trailer-1235503761/|title='Black Mirror' Season 6 Reveals Release Date, Episode Descriptions|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|last=Strause|first=Jackie|date=31 May 2023|accessdate=31 May 2023}}</ref><ref name="Variety S6">{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/black-mirror-season-6-release-date-netflix-teaser-full-cast-1235595070/|title='Black Mirror' Season 6 Teaser Confirms June Release; First Looks at Salma Hayek Pinault, Aaron Paul and More Revealed|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|last=Ravindran|first=Manori|date=26 April 2023|accessdate=27 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Variety S6 episodes">{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/black-mirror-season-6-episodes-titles-plot-cast-1235609886/|title='Black Mirror' Season 6 Unveils Titles and Plot Synopses for New Episodes Starring Salma Hayek, Aaron Paul and More|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|last=Franklin|first=McKinley|date=11 May 2023|accessdate=11 May 2023}}</ref> Episodes are usually dystopian, often with unhappy endings, and many are set in a futuristic world with advanced technology.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/12/black-mirror-season-4-review.html|title=''Black Mirror''{{'}}s New Season Is a Little Light, Until It Gets Darker Than Ever|work=[[Vulture (magazine)|Vulture]]|url-access=limited|last=Chaney|first=Jen|date=21 December 2017|access-date=5 March 2021|archive-date=9 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109004419/http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/black-mirror-season-4-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/arts/television/review-black-mirror-finds-terror-and-soul-in-the-machine.html|title=Review: 'Black Mirror' Finds Terror, and Soul, in the Machine|website=[[The New York Times]]|url-access=limited|last=Poniewozik|first=James|author-link=James Poniewozik|date=20 October 2016|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813011807/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/arts/television/review-black-mirror-finds-terror-and-soul-in-the-machine.html|archive-date=13 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The instalments have spanned a variety of genres including [[drama (film and television)|drama]], [[psychological horror]], [[political satire]], and [[romantic comedy]].<ref name="Guardian"/><ref name="DoG Lambie">{{cite web|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/24606/black-mirror-series-2-episode-3-the-waldo-moment-spoiler-filled-review|title=Black Mirror series 2 episode 3: The Waldo Moment spoiler-filled review|work=[[Den of Geek]]|last=Lambie|first=Ryan|date=26 February 2013|access-date=21 September 2019|archive-date=21 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921211222/https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/24606/black-mirror-series-2-episode-3-the-waldo-moment-spoiler-filled-review|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Atlantic">{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/black-mirror-playtest-review-season-three-netflix/504893/|title=Black Mirror's 'Playtest' Brings Fear to Life|work=[[The Atlantic]]|url-access=limited|last=Sims|first=David|date=21 October 2016|access-date=31 October 2020|archive-date=30 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930054757/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/black-mirror-playtest-review-season-three-netflix/504893/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/quartzy/1147812/the-best-new-black-mirror-episodes-are-a-rom-com-and-a-cheesy-space-opera/|url-access=registration|title=The best new 'Black Mirror' episodes are a rom-com and a cheesy space opera|work=[[Quartz (publication)|Quartz]]|last=Epstein|first=Adam|date=6 December 2017|access-date=5 March 2021|archive-date=9 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109043751/https://qz.com/quartzy/1147812/the-best-new-black-mirror-episodes-are-a-rom-com-and-a-cheesy-space-opera/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Black Mirror'' has been met with positive reception from critics{{efn|On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], series 1 received a 98% rating,<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=black_mirror|type=tv|title=Black Mirror|season=1|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508185700/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_mirror/s01|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> series 2 received an 87% rating<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=black_mirror|type=tv|title=Black Mirror|season=2|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508185705/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_mirror/s02|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> and "White Christmas" received a 89% rating.<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=black_mirror/17660|type=tv|title=Black Mirror: White Christmas|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508185707/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_mirror/17660|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Series 3 holds an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=black_mirror|type=tv|title=Black Mirror|season=3|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508190027/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_mirror/s03|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> and a score of 82 on [[Metacritic]];<ref>{{Cite Metacritic|id=black-mirror|type=tv|title=Black Mirror|season=3|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508190907/https://www.metacritic.com/tv/black-mirror/season-3|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> series 4 holds an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=black_mirror|type=tv|title=Black Mirror|season=4|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508190049/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_mirror/s04|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> and a score of 72 on Metacritic.<ref>{{Cite Metacritic|id=black-mirror|type=tv|title=Black Mirror|season=4|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508190928/https://www.metacritic.com/tv/black-mirror/season-4|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Bandersnatch'' holds a 74% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=black_mirror/52530|type=tv|title=Black Mirror: Bandersnatch|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508190016/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_mirror/52530|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> and a score of 61 on Metacritic.<ref>{{Cite Metacritic|id=black-mirror-bandersnatch|type=tv|title=Black Mirror: Bandersnatch|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508190911/https://www.metacritic.com/tv/black-mirror-bandersnatch|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Series 5 holds a rating of 68% on Rotten Tomatoes<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=black_mirror|type=tv|title=Black Mirror|season=5|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508190028/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_mirror/s05|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> and a score of 66 on Metacritic.<ref>{{Cite Metacritic|id=black-mirror|type=tv|title=Black Mirror|season=5|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508190925/https://www.metacritic.com/tv/black-mirror/season-5|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>}} and has received numerous [[List of awards and nominations received by Black Mirror|awards and nominations]], including three consecutive wins of the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie]].{{efn|"[[San Junipero]]" won in 2017,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.emmys.com/news/awards-news/69th-emmy-award-winners |title=69th Emmy Award Winners |publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]] |access-date=20 September 2017 |archive-date=19 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919182017/http://www.emmys.com/news/awards-news/69th-emmy-award-winners |url-status=live }}</ref> "[[USS Callister]]" won in 2018,<ref name="emmy Callister">{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/uss-callister-black-mirror|title=USS Callister (Black Mirror)|publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]]|access-date=18 September 2018|archive-date=12 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712221955/https://www.emmys.com/shows/uss-callister-black-mirror|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[Black Mirror: Bandersnatch]]'' won in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/emmys-2019-black-mirror-bandersnatch-wins-outstanding-tv-movie/|title=Emmys 2019: ''Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'' Wins Outstanding TV Movie|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|last=Hussey|first=Allison|date=23 September 2019|access-date=23 September 2019|archive-date=23 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923075253/https://pitchfork.com/news/emmys-2019-black-mirror-bandersnatch-wins-outstanding-tv-movie/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} ==Series overview== someone should add the webisodea to this page. Thanks! <onlyinclude>{{Series overview | released = y | 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 | color4S = #475557 | link4S = <includeonly>List of Black Mirror episodes</includeonly>#Interactive film (2018) | linkT4S = Interactive film | start4S = {{Start date|2018|12|28|df=y}} | color5 = #485F2B | link5 = <includeonly>List of Black Mirror episodes</includeonly>#Series 5 (2019) | episodes5 = 3 | start5 = {{Start date|2019|6|5|df=y}} | end5 = start | color6 = #633742 | link6 = <includeonly>List of Black Mirror episodes</includeonly>#Series 6 (2023) | episodes6 = 5 | start6 = {{Start date|2023|6|15|df=y}} | end6 = 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 |directorR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |writerR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |airdateR=<ref name="viewers"/> |viewersR=<ref name="viewers">{{cite web|url=http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30|title=Top 30 Programmes|publisher=[[BARB]]|access-date=19 April 2015|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305220247/http://barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30|url-status=live}}</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 [[British royal family]] member, is kidnapped. For her return, the kidnapper demands that the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister]], Michael Callow, {{Not a typo|have}} sex with a pig on live television. The demands gather attention on social media and then national news. Backup plans to fabricate footage of the act are trialled by Callow's staff without his knowledge and lead to a change in public opinion when the kidnapper discovers and reveals the plan. A failed raid on a suspected location leads to the injury of a journalist, Malaika, who has been communicating with government staff. Callow reluctantly agrees to go forward with the broadcast to an audience of over a billion. However, the kidnapper—a famous artist—had released Susannah shortly before the broadcast and then hanged himself, facts which are kept from the public and Callow. A year later, Callow maintains good approval ratings but his relationship with his wife is damaged. {{Episode cast}} [[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 onscreen as "Kanak Huq". Do not change.--> |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|12|11|df=y}} |Viewers = 1.52 |ShortSummary = Bing lives in a society where the majority of people ride [[stationary bike]]s in exchange for "merits", a currency used to buy essentials and virtual entertainment. His bedroom is covered from head to toe in screens and he watches another one as he rides the bike. One day, he hears Abi singing in the bathroom and convinces her to enter the talent show ''Hot Shot'', paying almost his entire savings for her ticket. She sings "[[Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)]]" by [[Irma Thomas]] but the judges say they cannot hire another singer and she is instead coerced into becoming a pornographic performer. Later, Bing is unable to pay the merits to skip a pornographic advert starring Abi and is tormented by the images. He lives frugally until he can afford another ticket, for himself, and threatens to commit suicide when onstage. The judges give him a regular show in which he rails against the system he lives in. {{Episode cast}} [[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 = {{Unreported UK viewers|num=30|1.53}} |ShortSummary = With the implantation of a device called a "grain" behind their ear, people can replay their memories through their eyes or on a screen. At a dinner party, Liam is suspicious of his wife Ffion's behaviour towards her friend Jonas. Upon returning home, Ffion reveals a former relationship with Jonas, though some of her details are inconsistent. Liam drinks alcohol continually throughout the night and then heads to Jonas' house. On threat of [[glassing]], Liam forces Jonas to delete every stored memory he has of Ffion. Liam crashes his car and when he regains consciousness, he replays his memories and notices one of Jonas's memories was of Ffion in bed. Liam confronts Ffion, who continues to lie, and forces her to show her memory of having sex with Jonas around the time her baby was conceived. Later, alone in the house, Liam uses a razor to try to remove his grain. {{Episode cast}} [[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 |directorR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |writerR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |airdateR=<ref name="viewers"/> |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 = Martha's boyfriend Ash is killed while returning a hire van, the day after they move into a new house in the countryside. Martha learns she is pregnant and tests a service that her friend signed her up to: by aggregating Ash's many social media posts and online communications, an [[artificial intelligence]] (AI) imitation of Ash is created. Martha interacts with him via [[instant messaging]] and video call, talking on countryside walks and neglecting her sister's attempts to reach out. The next stage is a physical [[android (robot)|android]] version of Ash, which begins to make Martha uncomfortable. She argues with him and takes him to a cliff where she orders him to jump, but Martha is then frustrated as the real Ash would not obey such a command. Several years later, on Martha's daughter's birthday, her daughter takes a slice of cake to the android Ash kept in the attic, which she is only permitted to visit on weekends. {{Episode cast}} [[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. People on the street record her but do not speak. After being chased by a masked man, she flees and meets Jem, another woman hiding from those known as "hunters". Jem explains that the people recording her have been affected by a strange signal, while the hunters are unaffected sadists. The woman follows Jem in her plan to destroy the signal transmitter. A hunter, Baxter, holds them at gunpoint in a forest but Jem kills him. When they reach the facility, hunters attack. The woman wrestles a shotgun away but it only sprays confetti. The whole day has been a staged performance, and everybody but the woman—named Victoria Skillane—was an actor or audience member. Victoria was an accomplice to the child murderer Iain Rannoch. Victoria was sent to the White Bear Justice Park, wherein her memory is wiped at the end of each day so that the punishment and entertainment can begin afresh. {{Episode cast}} [[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 controls a computer-animated bear named Waldo on a satirical show. Waldo pranks politicians by asking vulgar questions in interviews. After interviewing the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] Liam Munroe, Waldo is entered for a [[by-election]] in a Conservative [[safe seat]] where Munroe is standing. Jamie meets the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] candidate Gwendolyn Harris and they have sex, but Harris is made to avoid further contact during the campaign. At a student-organised [[hustings]], Waldo derides both Munroe and Harris. The event goes viral and Jamie meets with an American agent interested in using Waldo's image. After Harris rejects Jamie's apology, Jamie publicly reveals himself as the man behind Waldo and urges people not to vote for him. His executive Jack takes over Waldo and encourages the public to attack Jamie. In a hospital, he sees that Munroe won and Waldo came second. Later, a homeless Jamie is tasered by police for throwing a bottle at a screen that displays Waldo on every channel. {{Episode cast}} [[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 |directorR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |writerR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |airdateR=<ref name="viewers"/> |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 = In a cabin, Matt and Joe talk about their past. Matt used to run an online group who watched each other seduce women through "Z-Eyes" that record vision and hearing. It ended after a mentally ill woman poisoned one of the attendees in a [[murder–suicide]]. Matt's former profession was training "cookies"—digital clones of people stored in an egg-shaped object—as personal assistants. Meanwhile, Joe's wife "blocked" him with the Z-Eyes, so that he could not communicate with her, after an argument over her planned [[abortion]]. Joe travelled to Beth's father's house each Christmas to spy on Beth and the child—who she kept, but who Joe also cannot see. After Beth's death, he was able to see the child, but he was not the father. Joe confronted Beth's father and killed him, leaving the daughter to freeze to death. Matt reveals that they are both in a cookie, and Joe has just confessed to his crimes. Joe will be imprisoned, while Matt is registered as a sex offender and blocked by everybody. Meanwhile, as punishment, a law enforcement officer sets the time inside Joe's cookie to run at 1,000 years per minute. {{Episode cast}} [[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 |directorR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |writerR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |airdateR=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/black-mirror-season-3-gets-release-date-darker-pokemon-go-rashida-jones-co-write-episode-a7159391.html|title=Black Mirror season 3 gets release date, is 'darker than Pokemon Go', Rashida Jones co-wrote an episode|work=[[The Independent]]|last=Hooton|first=Christopher|date=28 July 2016|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410060729/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/black-mirror-season-3-gets-release-date-darker-pokemon-go-rashida-jones-co-write-episode-a7159391.html|archive-date=10 April 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 8 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[Nosedive (Black Mirror)|Nosedive]] |DirectedBy = [[Joe Wright]] |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s=[[Charlie Brooker]]|t=[[Rashida Jones]] & [[Michael Schur]]}} |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Using eye implants and mobile devices, people rate all of their social interactions on a five-star scale. These ratings form a person's overall rating, which affects their [[socioeconomic status]]. Lacie, rated 4.2, is keen to reach 4.5 to afford a better apartment. She leaps at the opportunity to be [[bridesmaid|maid of honour]] at her childhood friend Naomi's wedding. Her flight there is cancelled and she is too low-rated to qualify for a replacement. She argues with a staff member and security temporarily subtracts a point from her rating and places her on "double damage", which increases the effect of poor ratings. With her new rating, she can only rent an old car, which breaks down. Lacie hitchhikes with Susan—a truck driver rated 1.4. Naomi uninvites Lacie due to her lower rating, but she gatecrashes the wedding and attempts to deliver her speech. Increasingly agitated, Lacie grabs a knife as guests give her low ratings. Security arrest Lacie and she is taken to prison, where she and a fellow inmate revel in their newfound freedom from being rated. {{Episode cast}} [[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 = After Cooper's father dies, Cooper travels the world and avoids his mother's calls. He spends a night with Sonja in London and, after being victim to [[identity theft]], finds a paid offer to playtest an experimental game. He tests an [[augmented reality]] version of [[Whac-A-Mole]] and meets Shou, the company's owner. In a mansion, Cooper tests a horror game where an [[artificial neural network]] learns from his fears. After fighting with a simulated Sonja, Katie tells Cooper that the technology should not cause him physical pain and leads him to a room where the test can be terminated. In the room, Cooper loses his memories and Katie and Shou say that the technology has advanced too far to be removed. Cooper then awakens in Shou's office, all subsequent events having been simulated. He returns home to find his mother unable to recognise him. However, Cooper's entire experience—from Whac-a-Mole onwards—was contained in the 0.04 second-long experiment. He died during the experiment when a phone call from his mother caused electrical interference. {{Episode cast}} [[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 hacker records Kenny masturbating via his webcam and threatens to release it unless he follows their instructions. Kenny picks up a cake from another blackmailed individual and takes it to a hotel room where Hector was waiting to commit adultery with a sex worker. The hackers contact Hector, who complies with their commands to avoid losing custody of his children. Kenny and Hector drive to a bank and Kenny robs it at gunpoint. Hector drives Kenny to the woods to drop off the money and leaves to dispose of the car. Another blackmailed person explains to Kenny that they must fight to the death over the money while filmed by a drone. Kenny tries to shoot himself, but the gun is empty. Later, staggering out of the woods, Kenny discovers that the hackers have released the footage. His distraught mother calls him, having learned that he was masturbating to [[child pornography]], as police swarm the area. {{Episode cast}} [[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 1987, the shy Yorkie meets the outgoing Kelly in a beach resort town named San Junipero. The next week, the pair meet again and have sex. Yorkie struggles to find Kelly afterwards, until a man suggests looking in a different time. She searches in multiple decades until finding Kelly in 2002, where Kelly confesses that she is dying, and wanted to avoid developing feelings for Yorkie. They have sex again. San Junipero is revealed as a [[simulated reality]] inhabited by the deceased and elderly, who interact through their younger bodies. In California, Kelly meets a paralysed Yorkie, soon to be euthanised so that she can live in San Junipero permanently. Kelly marries Yorkie to authorise the euthanasia. However, the pair argue when Kelly says she does not wish to stay in San Junipero when she dies: her husband, with whom she was together for 49 years, did not choose to join after their daughter died without the option to do so. After some time, Kelly changes her mind and happily reunites with Yorkie after her own euthanasia. {{Episode cast}} [[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 are exterminating mutated humans called "roaches" in a foreign country with the help of MASS, an augmented reality implant which gives them data. Stripe encounters his first group of roaches and kills two of them, but one uses a strange device that interferes with his MASS interface. The next day, Stripe tries to save a frightened woman and her child when Hunter inexplicably tries to kill them. The mother explains to Stripe that MASS causes soldiers to see them as mutants, but they are normal and healthy. "Roaches" are an ethnic group against whom the military is committing genocide. Hunter kills the mother and child and knocks Stripe unconscious. In a cell, a psychologist, Arquette, gives Stripe the choice of indefinite imprisonment or a memory wipe. Later, Stripe is a decorated officer and approaches a beautiful house and partner he pictured in his dreams, but the scene is a figment of his MASS. {{Episode cast}} [[Malachi Kirby]], [[Madeline Brewer]], [[Ariane Labed]], [[Sarah Snook]] and [[Michael Kelly (actor)|Michael Kelly]] |LineColor = 0B0D45 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 13 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = [[Hated in the Nation]] |DirectedBy = [[James Hawes]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2016|10|21|df=y}} |ShortSummary = To counteract near-extinction of bees, Granular has developed robotic bees called "Autonomous Drone Insects" (ADIs). DCI Karin Parke and Detective Blue Coulson, with the help of the [[National Crime Agency]] agent Shaun Li, discover that rogue ADIs caused the deaths of two people, both subjects of the "#DeathTo" hashtag after gathering recent hate on social media. The hashtag was spread by a person who is running a "Game of Consequences" where the person most-mentioned alongside the hashtag is killed each day. They try to save the new target, but ADIs swarm the safe house and kill her. The public and news media become aware of the game as Blue traces the hashtag to a former Granular employee Garrett Scholes. A hacking toolkit of Scholes' is found, which Li insists on using to deactivate the ADI system. However, this was part of Scholes' plan and almost 400,000 people—everyone who used the hashtag—are killed by ADIs. Karin appears in court over the incident, while Blue has tracked Scholes down. {{Episode cast}} [[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 |directorR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |writerR={{sfnp|Brooker|Jones|Arnopp|2018}} |airdateR=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42235812|title=Charlie Brooker: Expect the most varied series of Black Mirror yet|publisher=[[BBC]]|last=Rackham|first=Annabel|date=27 December 2017|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508130453/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42235812|archive-date=8 May 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 14 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[USS Callister]] |DirectedBy = [[Toby Haynes]] |WrittenBy = William Bridges & [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Callister Inc. produces the multiplayer game ''Infinity'', with James Walton as CEO and Robert Daly, the brains behind the game, as the little-recognised CTO. Robert has created a version of the game modelled after his favourite series, where the characters—the crew of the starship USS ''Callister''—are sentient clones of his co-workers. After Robert adds a new programmer, Nanette Cole, to the game, she is distressed and confused, and does not obey his commands until he causes her intense pain and shows the scope of his power. During his absences she devises an escape, though James is reluctant to join as Robert once brought his son into the game and threw him out of an airlock. Nanette finds a way to blackmail her real-life self into distracting Robert for long enough for them to steal his in-game "omnicorder", which controls the world, and begin to escape. Robert resumes playing and chases them, but they escape, which causes the game to break with Robert inside. The crew enter the real ''Infinity'' game as players. {{Episode cast}} [[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 = Marie briefly loses her three-year-old daughter Sara and decides to have her implanted with the Arkangel system, whereby Marie can track Sara's vision, hearing and health via a [[tablet computer]]. A filter censors Sara from seeing or hearing stressful situations. After nine-year-old Sara makes herself bleed, Marie deactivates the filter and puts the tablet in the attic. One night when Sara is fifteen, Marie discovers she is lying about her whereabouts and, in distress, retrieves the tablet. Marie sees Sara having sex for the first time with Trick. Marie begins using the tablet in secret; she forces Trick to avoid Sara after he gives her cocaine, and sneaks an [[emergency contraception]] pill into Sara's smoothie. Sara discovers Marie is using the tablet and beats her with it, causing the stress filter to be reactivated so that she cannot see the damage she is doing. When Marie regains consciousness, Sara is long gone. {{Episode cast}} [[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 = Rob hits a cyclist on a mountain road, killing him; with his companion Mia he throws the body into a lake. Fifteen years later, Rob visits her to talk about sending an anonymous letter to the victim's wife. Afraid the letter would be traced, Mia kills Rob. Later, an insurance investigator Shazia researches an unrelated car accident and learns that Mia saw it out of the window that evening. Shazia uses a "Recaller" to view people's memories, as best as they can picture them. Shazia speaks to Mia, who sees Mia's memories of both of her killings, despite Mia trying to stop herself thinking about them. Mia ties Shazia up, uses the Recaller to discover Shazia told her husband about the visit, and kills Shazia. Mia journeys to kill Shazia's husband and also kills their baby son to avoid leaving evidence. However, the son was born blind and the family guinea pig observed Mia, so police track Mia down to her son's school production. {{Episode cast}} [[Andrea Riseborough]], [[Kiran Sonia Sawar]], [[Andrew Gower (actor)|Andrew Gower]], [[Anthony Welsh]] and [[Claire Rushbrook]] |LineColor = 92BAB9 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 17 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = [[Hang the DJ]] |DirectedBy = [[Tim Van Patten]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|12|29|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Frank and Amy use an electronic device called "Coach" which chooses their relationship partners and durations. Coach will eventually assign them lifelong partners, with a 99.8% success rate. They are matched for 12 hours, and then each given a match lasting several months. Amy's ends and she is given a series of 36-hour relationships; when Frank's ends, the pair are rematched. They get on well until Frank violates an agreement they had not to look at the expiry date—initially five years, but his action causes Coach to recalculate the period to 20 hours. Amy and Frank leave on bad terms but fail to enjoy future matches. The day before they are paired with their lifelong partners, they reunite and Amy encourages Frank to rebel. As they escape, the world fades away: it was a simulated reality used by a dating app to determine the real-life Frank and Amy's compatibility. {{Episode cast}} [[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 = The episode is filmed in black and white. Bella journeys to a warehouse with Anthony and Clarke. A robotic guard known as a "dog" kills Anthony and chases the others as they drive away in separate cars. The dog jumps into Clarke's car and kills him, then pursues Bella in it. The dog enters Bella's car, and she exits as the car topples off the edge of a cliff. Via walkie-talkie, Bella leaves someone a brief message for her loved ones in case of death. The dog finds her and she climbs a tree to escape it, draining it of power by throwing things at it. As it recharges, she makes her way into a compound. When the dog tracks her down, she blinds it with paint and destroys it with a shotgun, but its shrapnel embeds trackers in her body, including one in her [[jugular vein]]. She says a final goodbye into a walkie-talkie, unsure if she can be heard. As she puts a knife to her throat, dogs swarm over the area, including the warehouse where Bella and her friends were trying to retrieve a box of [[teddy bear]]s. {{Episode cast}} [[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 = Nish visits the Black Museum run by Rolo Haynes. He previously recruited people for experimental medical technology. One technology allowed Dr. Peter Dawson to feel the physical sensations of his patients to make diagnoses, but he began enjoying pain and was rendered comatose after killing a homeless man and experiencing his death. In another case, a comatose mother had her consciousness transferred into her husband's head, but after arguments she was moved to a toy monkey which her child quickly abandoned. The main exhibit is a holographic Clayton Leigh—a man convicted of murder and put to death by [[electric chair]]. Visitors pull the lever to execute the sentient hologram, and get a souvenir clone copy to watch the death on repeat. Nish reveals herself as Clayton's daughter; she has given Rolo poisoned water so that he falls unconscious. Nish kills the hologram of Clayton and takes a souvenir of Rolo being given the electric chair. As she drives away, she speaks to her mother, whose consciousness has been transferred into her head. {{Episode cast}} [[Douglas Hodge]] and [[Letitia Wright]] |LineColor = 92BAB9 }} }} ===Interactive film (2018)=== {{Episode table |background=#475557 |title=30 |director=15 |writer=30 |airdate=25 |released=y |airdateR=<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/black-mirror-team-complexity-bandersnatch-netflix-data-1213270 | title = 'Black Mirror' Duo on the Challenges of Netflix's First Interactive Movie — and Why They Would Do It Again | first = Jackie | last = Strause | date = 24 May 2019 | access-date = 8 May 2021 | work = [[The Hollywood Reporter]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190524182742/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/black-mirror-team-complexity-bandersnatch-netflix-data-1213270 | archive-date = 24 May 2019 | url-status = live }}</ref> |episodes= {{Episode list |RTitle = ''[[Black Mirror: Bandersnatch|Bandersnatch]]'' |DirectedBy = [[David Slade]] |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2018|12|28|df=y}} |ShortSummary = ''Bandersnatch'' is an [[interactive film]], where viewer choices affect the storyline. Stefan Butler, a young programmer, works on a video game adaptation of a "[[choose your own adventure]]" book, ''Bandersnatch''. He successfully pitches it to Tuckersoft in a meeting with the head Mohan Thakur and the game developer Colin Ritman. Stefan becomes stressed while working from home and attends therapy. The viewer can see Stefan talking about his mother's death. Stefan can take hallucinogens with Colin and hear his alternate timeline theories. In many storylines, Stefan feels controlled by outside forces, as did the original author of ''Bandersnatch''. Stefan may discover that his father and therapist are running an experiment on him, travel back through time and go with his mother onto the train that crashed and killed her, or kill his father and sometimes Mohan or Colin. The game's success upon release depends on the viewers' choices, as does whether Stefan is imprisoned and the game pulled. Some endings show Colin's daughter trying to adapt ''Bandersnatch'' into an interactive film. {{Episode cast}} [[Fionn Whitehead]], [[Craig Parkinson]], [[Alice Lowe]], [[Asim Chaudhry]] and [[Will Poulter]] |LineColor = 475557 }} }} ===Series 5 (2019)=== {{Episode table |background=#485F2B |overall=5 |series=5 |title=20 |director=15 |writer=30 |airdate=25 |released=y |airdateR=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a27475929/black-mirror-smithereens-striking-vipers-season-5-trailer-release-date-photos-cast-spoilers/|url-access=limited|title='Black Mirror' Season 5 Takes On Home Robots And Romance Apps In Dark New Trailer|work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|last=Ovenden|first=Olivia|date=15 May 2019|access-date=9 February 2021|archive-date=9 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209234551/https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a27475929/black-mirror-smithereens-striking-vipers-season-5-trailer-release-date-photos-cast-spoilers/|url-status=live}}</ref> |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 20 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[Striking Vipers]] |DirectedBy = [[Owen Harris (director)|Owen Harris]] |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|6|5|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Danny hosts a birthday party with his wife Theo. His old friend Karl introduces him to the latest ''Striking Vipers'' game, as they used to play them together. It is a fighting game, now experienced in [[virtual reality]]. That night, Danny and Karl play as Lance and Roxette, respectively, feeling all physical sensations of the characters' bodies. After a round of fighting, they fall onto each other and kiss. They begin to have sex in the game. On their wedding anniversary, Theo confronts Danny, having noticed him being more withdrawn, and he cuts off his arrangement with Karl. At Danny's next birthday, Theo invites Karl. They argue but then have sex in the game again. They try kissing in real life, but agree that there is no spark between them. A physical fight leads to their arrest overnight. Later, as part of an agreement, Danny plays ''Striking Vipers'' with Karl while Theo goes to a bar without her wedding ring and meets strangers. {{Episode cast}} [[Anthony Mackie]], [[Yahya Abdul-Mateen II]], [[Nicole Beharie]], [[Pom Klementieff]] and [[Ludi Lin]] |LineColor = 485F2B }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 21 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = [[Smithereens (Black Mirror)|Smithereens]] |DirectedBy = [[James Hawes]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|6|5|df=y}} |ShortSummary = At group therapy, Chris meets Hayley, whose daughter died by suicide. He has sex with her and watches her make her daily three attempts to log into her daughter's account on Persona. One day, Chris—a [[ridesharing company|rideshare]] driver—abducts Jaden, an intern at the social media company Smithereen, at gunpoint. Police chase after them until Chris comes to a stop in a field. Chris contacts Jaden's superior and demands to speak to Smithereen's CEO Billy Bauer, who is on a solitary retreat. Smithereen employees gather information on Chris while he forces the hostage negotiator to leave. After a final ultimatum from Chris, Billy agrees to speak to him. Chris explains that he was checking a Smithereen notification while driving when a drunk driver collided with him, killing the driver and Chris's fiancée. Chris makes clear his intention to kill himself, and as a favour Billy gets Persona's CEO to give Hayley her daughter's password. Jaden tries to force Chris's gun away from him to prevent his suicide, and a police sniper is ordered to shoot into the car. {{Episode cast}} [[Andrew Scott (actor)|Andrew Scott]], [[Damson Idris]] and [[Topher Grace]] |LineColor = 485F2B }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 22 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = [[Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too]] |DirectedBy = [[Anne Sewitsky]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2019|6|5|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Rachel and Jack live with their father, who is working on a [[mousetrap]] alternative. For her fifteenth birthday, Rachel gets an AI toy, Ashley Too, based on the pop star Ashley O. She dances to an Ashley O song at a school talent competition, but falls and leaves embarrassed. Meanwhile, Ashley O is beginning to rebel against Catherine—her controlling manager and aunt. Catherine puts medication in her food to render Ashley O comatose. When the Ashley Too doll learns of Ashley O's coma, it malfunctions. Jack uses her father's computer to remove a limiter on the doll, causing it to gain full consciousness, as it was made from a clone of Ashley O. Rachel and Jack go with the doll to Ashley O's house. While Jack poses as a mouse catcher, Rachel and Ashley Too unplug Ashley O from a medication drip and she regains consciousness. After rendering two of Catherine's staff unconscious, they crash a venue where Catherine is unveiling Ashley Eternal, a holographic Ashley O to perform on music tours, and reveal that Ashley O is awake. Later, Ashley O performs alternative music with Jack under the name "Ashley Fuckn O". {{Episode cast}} [[Miley Cyrus]], [[Angourie Rice]], [[Madison Davenport]] and Susan Pourfar |LineColor = 485F2B }} }} ===Series 6 (2023) === {{Episode table |background=#633745 |overall=5 |series=5 |title=20 |director=15 |writer=30 |airdate=25 |released=y |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 23 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = [[Joan Is Awful]] |DirectedBy = Ally Pankiw |WrittenBy = [[Charlie Brooker]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2023|6|15|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Joan, a tech CEO, finds that the events of her life are being retold in near-real time by streaming app Streamberry, which has produced a show titled ''Joan Is Awful'' starring [[Salma Hayek]]. Joan learns from her lawyer that she technically consented to Streamberry's usage of her personal data upon signing the app's [[terms and conditions]], and that the company is using a [[quantum computer]] to produce the entire show in CGI based on data collected from their personal devices. Blaming Hayek, Joan rebelliously decides to defecate in a church; Hayek visits her after the act is captured in the show and reveals that she too inadvertently signed the rights over her own image to Streamberry. The two decide to break into Streamberry's offices to destroy the computer, only to learn that they themselves are in a simulated reality, with "Joan" being played by actress [[Annie Murphy]]. Joan nevertheless destroys the computer, reverting reality to its source level, where the real Joan is now a young coffee shop owner who, alongside Murphy, is placed on house arrest for breaking into Streamberry's offices. {{Episode cast}} [[Annie Murphy]], [[Salma Hayek]], [[Michael Cera]], [[Himesh Patel]], [[Avi Nash]], [[Wunmi Mosaku]], [[Lolly Adefope]], [[Rob Delaney]], [[Ben Barnes (actor)|Ben Barnes]], Jared Goldstein, [[Jaboukie Young-White]], [[Ayo Edebiri]] and Camirin Farmer<ref name="EW S6 episodes">{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/tv/black-mirror-season-6-episode-titles-photos|title=''Black Mirror'' season 6 reveals episode details, new photos|work=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|last=Holub|first=Christian|date=11 May 2023|accessdate=11 May 2023}}</ref> |LineColor = 633742 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 24 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = [[Loch Henry]] |DirectedBy = [[Sam Miller]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2023|6|15|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Couple Davis and Pia, film students, visit Davis's mother Janet in the countryside town of Loch Henry, where they learn about Iain Adair, a notorious serial killer who tortured tourists. Pia proposes making a true crime documentary about Adair instead of their initial nature film, aiming to bring some attention to the town. During the shooting, they find out that old VCR tapes of the TV series ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'' stored by Janet were actually disguising footage of Adair's crimes, revealing Adair to in fact be the accomplice of Davis' parents. Pia discovers the evidence of Janet's involvement and tries to escape, but suffers a fatal fall while crossing a river. Janet, fearing exposure, leaves the VCR tapes for Davis with a note and commits suicide. Years later, the documentary is successfully released on Streamberry, winning a [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA]]. This delights the town, but traumatizes Davis, who after the ceremony, alone in a hotel room, re-reads his mother's suicide note: "For your film. Mum". {{Episode cast}} Samuel Blenkin, [[Myha'la Herrold]], [[Daniel Portman]], [[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]] and [[Monica Dolan]]<ref name="EW S6 episodes"/> |LineColor = 633742 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 25 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = [[Beyond the Sea (Black Mirror)|Beyond the Sea]] |DirectedBy = [[John Crowley (director)|John Crowley]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2023|6|15|df=y}} |ShortSummary = In an [[Alternate history|alternate-history]] 1969, astronauts Cliff and David have embarked on a six-year deep space mission, during which they inhabit mechanical replicas of their bodies on Earth to spend time with their wives and children. David becomes trapped aboard the ship when his replica along with his family are murdered by a cult, and becomes reclusive and catatonic. Cliff and his wife Lana decide to let David return to Earth in Cliff's replica body; David finds the experience therapeutic, but quickly becomes attracted to Lana, who rejects his advances and wants his visits to stop after he hits their son for defiling his painting of Cliff's family home. Cliff discovers David's nude drawings of Lana; both deny having an affair, but assert that Cliff does not appreciate his family enough. Cliff tells David that Lana is disgusted by him and bars him from using his replica; David sends Cliff on an emergency spacewalk repair and uses his tag to return to Earth and murder Cliff's family, which Cliff discovers. A horrified Cliff returns to the ship, where David is waiting for him and offers him a seat. {{Episode cast}} [[Aaron Paul]], [[Josh Hartnett]] and [[Kate Mara]]<ref name="EW S6 episodes"/> |LineColor = 633742 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 26 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = [[Mazey Day (Black Mirror)|Mazey Day]] |DirectedBy = [[Uta Briesewitz]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2023|6|15|df=y}} |ShortSummary = In the mid-2000s, an amoral [[paparazzi]] photographer drives a television actor to suicide after selling photos of the star and his secret male lover to a magazine. Feeling guilty for the scandal, she decides to quit selling photos. Weeks later while working at a new, low-paying job, the photographer is offered $30,000 if she can get photos of an actress (Mazey Day) who went missing after a hit-and-run incident in the [[Czech Republic]]. The paparazzi ultimately find the actress at a remote "rehab" facility and discover that she was bitten by a werewolf; she is hiding out of fear of hurting other people. The paparazzi break into Day's room and begin taking invasive photos of her as she starts transforming into a werewolf. Day attacks several paparazzi before chasing two to a local diner. Day briefly turns back to a human and begs the photographer to kill her, but the photographer instead encourages the actress to do it herself. Day then kills herself as the photographer stands over her, shamelessly taking a photo of her committing suicide. {{Episode cast}} [[Zazie Beetz]], [[Clara Rugaard]] and [[Danny Ramirez]]<ref name="EW S6 episodes"/> |LineColor = 633742 }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 27 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = [[Demon 79]] |DirectedBy = [[Toby Haynes]] |WrittenBy = Charlie Brooker & [[Bisha K. Ali]] |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2023|6|15|df=y}} |ShortSummary = Set in 1979 and referred to in the opening credits as a "Red Mirror" episode. Nida is a sales assistant at a department store and faces discrimination and racism from her coworkers and boss. However, she discovers a talisman that unleashes a demon-in-training named Gaap. Gaap, dressed from [[Boney M]], tells Nida to kill three people in the next few days to prevent the threat of a nuclear apocalypse. She is coerced into killing a bystander when Gaap reveals he sexually assaults his daughter however becomes frightened by her actions and refuses. However, she continues on the spree nonetheless, killing a man found guilty of murdering his wife and brother however does not fulfil the prophecy and turns her target to Michael Smart, a far-right Conservative politician. She runs him off the road but is apprehended by police before she can kill him and is arrested. While alone in the interrogation room, Gaap persuades her to join him in damnation together which she accepts while nuclear missiles land and detonate the world. {{Episode cast}} [[Anjana Vasan]] and [[Paapa Essiedu]]<ref name="EW S6 episodes"/> |LineColor = 633742 }} }} ==Home media== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |+ {{sronly|Home media release}} |- ! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Series ! scope="col" | Release dates |- ! scope="col" | [[DVD region code#Region codes and countries|Region 2]]/[[Blu-ray Region Code|B]] |- | scope="row" | 1 | 27 February 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/2724/charlie_brookers_the_complete_first_series_dvd/|title=Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror – The Complete First Series|publisher=[[British Comedy Guide]]|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-date=12 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312035142/https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/2724/charlie_brookers_the_complete_first_series_dvd/|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | scope="row" | 2 | 6 May 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/3374/charlie_brookers_the_complete_second_series_dvd/|title=Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror – The Complete Second Series|publisher=[[British Comedy Guide]]|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-date=12 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312035152/https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/3374/charlie_brookers_the_complete_second_series_dvd/|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | scope="row" | Special | 9 February 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/4282/charlie_brookers_white_christmas_dvd/|title=Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror – White Christmas|publisher=[[British Comedy Guide]]|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-date=12 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312035146/https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/4282/charlie_brookers_white_christmas_dvd/|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | scope="row" | 1, 2, Special | 9 February 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/4283/charlie_brookers_series_1_2_special_dvd/|title=Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror – Series 1, 2 & Special|publisher=[[British Comedy Guide]]|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-date=12 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312035147/https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/4283/charlie_brookers_series_1_2_special_dvd/|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | scope="row" | 3 | 27 November 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/5563/series_3/|title=Black Mirror – The Complete Third Series|publisher=[[British Comedy Guide]]|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-date=12 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312035147/https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/5563/series_3/|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | scope="row" | 4 | 31 December 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/5704/series_4/|title=Black Mirror – The Complete Fourth Series|publisher=[[British Comedy Guide]]|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-date=12 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312035147/https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/black_mirror/shop/5704/series_4/|url-status=live}}</ref> |} ==References== ===Notes=== {{notelist}} ===Citations=== {{reflist}} ===General references=== * {{cite book | title= Inside Black Mirror | date = November 2018 | first1 = Charlie | last1 = Brooker | first2 = Annabel | last2 = Jones | first3 = Jason | last3 = Arnopp | isbn = 978-1-9848-2348-9 | publisher = [[Crown Publishing Group]] | place = New York City }} * {{cite web|url=https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888|title=''Black Mirror''|publisher=[[Netflix]]|access-date=8 May 2021 }} ==External links== * {{Netflix title|qid=Q558112|title=Black Mirror}} * {{IMDb episodes|2085059|title=Black Mirror}} {{Black Mirror}} {{Charlie Brooker}} {{featured list}} {{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]]'