![]() A woman struggles to survive in a world where social media ratings determine social status. A man is forced to have sex with a pig on a live feed, as the global community watches. The majority of episodes deal with the underbelly of humanity-corporate greed, sexual predation, extortion and blackmail, unfaithfulness-and filter those themes through some dystopian plot device. The best Black Mirror episodes twist your guts into knots. But Netflix, seeing the viral hit potential, purchased the series in 2015 Black Mirror has aired on the streaming service ever since Season 3. The show, created by Charlie Brooker, first aired on Channel 4 in the UK in 2011. This is a dark satire that's rarely 'ha-ha' funny, even when it jokes. ![]() If you're terrified of the future and the increasingly invasive ways that technology degrades our lives and magnifies our problems, the science fiction television series Black Mirror, now streaming on Netflix, will do you no favors. ![]()
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