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  1. season renewals
    Black Mirror to Return for Season 5, Because Phones Haven’t Gotten Less ScaryTime to find new ways to make the future scary.
    By Jackson McHenry
  2. exclusive
    Charlie Brooker Confirms Black Mirror Shared Universe in Behind-the-Scenes VideoWatch a behind-the-scenes featurette on the latest season.
    By Jackson McHenry
  3. close reads
    Why Black Mirror’s Digital Prisons Are So HauntingIt’s one of the most subversive arguments for prison reform that TV has ever seen.
    By Abraham Riesman
  4. Is Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams the New Black Mirror?We’re slipping into the twilight zone.
    By Jen Chaney
  5. close reads
    Let’s Talk About the Ending of Black Mirror’s ‘Hang the DJ’Does the big twist undermine Amy and Frank’s charming love story?
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  6. endings
    Let’s Talk About the Ending of Black Mirror’s ‘USS Callister’It has two endings, and one is pretty grim.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  7. Why Is Black Mirror So Divisive This Season?The Black Mirror debate feels bigger than ever.
    By Brian Tallerico
  8. The Black Mirror Creator Has an Idea for a Much Nicer Version of The MatrixThis would definitely make Neo’s world more bearable …
    By Kenny Wassus, Madison Mills, and Granger Willson
  9. vulture lists
    Every Major Easter Egg in Black Mirror Season FourCharlie Brooker and the Black Mirror team hid dozens of references in the new season.
    By Brian Tallerico
  10. blink and you missed it
    Did You Spot These Super-Quick Black Mirror Cameos?All aboard the “USS Callister.”
    By Devon Ivie
  11. The Makers of TV’s Darkest Show Are Actually ComediansBlack Mirror is finally getting a funny episode next season.
    By Devon Sherer, Kenny Wassus, and Granger Willson
  12. chat room
    Jodie Foster and Rosemarie DeWitt on Black Mirror’s Helicopter-Parent Episode“It’s a lot of interesting questions about child-rearing, but also about being a woman and how we raise women.”
    By Maria Elena Fernandez
  13. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: Nowhere to Run“Metalhead” is a dystopian tale that illustrates the horrors of drone warfare.
    By Charles Bramesco
  14. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: Of Data and Dating“Hang the DJ” is a story of love in a time of algorithmic dating apps.
    By Charles Bramesco
  15. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: Nothing Stays BuriedAndrea Riseborough is terrific in this needlessly cruel episode.
    By Charles Bramesco
  16. chat room
    Cristin Milioti: Shooting on a Spaceship Is ‘Just As Fun As You’d Imagine’And yeah, that space bouffant was her actual hair.
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. The Making of Black Mirror’s Retro ‘USS Callister’The standout episode is inspired by Star Trek, and it even gets its own “J.J. Abrams–style” reboot.
    By Jackson McHenry
  18. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: The Dark Side of Fan Fiction“USS Callister” is one of the very best Black Mirror episodes.
    By Charles Bramesco
  19. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: Parents Just Don’t UnderstandHelicopter parenting gone mad is the commentary du jour in “Arkangel.”
    By Charles Bramesco
  20. Black Mirror’s New Season Is a Little Light, Until It Gets Darker Than EverExcept for a strong episode directed by Jodie Foster, the season is too gratuitous and too gimmicky.
    By Jen Chaney
  21. trailer mix
    Don’t Watch This New Black Mirror Trailer If You’re Afraid of DogsIt’s like if David Lynch got his hands on Hound of the Baskervilles.
    By Devon Ivie
  22. trailer mix
    Black Mirror Season 4 Trailer: Anti-Vaxxers Will Love ThisThe key to good parenting is control. Or is it?
    By Devon Ivie
  23. trailer mix
    Black Mirror Season-4 Trailer Recruits Jesse Plemons, Michaela Coel, and MoreThe future is coming faster than you expected.
    By Jackson McHenry
  24. Writing Black Mirror Made Rashida Jones Buy a DumbphoneJones and Mike Schur, who co-wrote the show’s “Nosedive” episode, discuss technology and 10-year-old Rashida’s interactive murder mystery.
  25. vulture festival 2017
    Charlie Brooker Reveals the ‘San Junipero’ Scene That Was Too Sad to Air“We realized that’d just be too sad.”
    By Charles Bramesco
  26. vulture festival 2017
    Charlie Brooker Has an Idea for a Very Trump-y Black Mirror SequelThe pig, part two.
    By Charles Bramesco
  27. roll clip!
    OITNB Riffs on Black Mirror As Poussey and Taystee Have a Very ’80s ReunionOrange Is the New Black Mirror.
    By Jackson McHenry
  28. vulture festival 2017
    Vulture Festival 2017 Complete Line-UpThe fourth annual pop-culture festival features its biggest lineup yet.
    By Vulture Editors
  29. alternate reality
    Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker Wanted to Do a Sitcom About Time-Traveling PunksIt would’ve been called God Save the Queen.
    By Jackson McHenry
  30. These Eerily Familiar TV Characters Remind Us of Politicians in Trump’s America▶️ “My most pressing concern is there ain’t enough Purell in the world to make me want to keep shaking their filthy, inbred hands.”
    By Granger Willson
  31. chat room
    Mackenzie Davis on ‘San Junipero,’ Always Shine“I always grew up thinking that being undesirable is a mortal sin.”
    By Kevin Lincoln
  32. soundtrack of our digital lives
    Black Mirror Releases ‘San Junipero’ Soundtrack Ooh, baby, do you know what that’s worth?
    By Halle Kiefer
  33. ask an expert
    Could a Real-Life San Junipero Ever Happen? We Asked a Neuroscientist “It’s kind of this techno substitution for traditional stories of life after death. It’s just substituting a different mechanism.”
    By Lila Shapiro
  34. cut scenes
    Black Mirror Creators Reveal Bleak Cut SceneGloomy, desolate spoiler alert.
    By Halle Kiefer
  35. theories
    Is the Ending of Black Mirror’s ‘San Junipero’ Exactly As It Seems?What really happened with Kelly and Yorkie?
    By Jackson McHenry
  36. soundtracks
    Stream Black Mirror Season 3 SoundtrackFrom Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury.
    By E. Alex Jung
  37. unpopular opinions
    The Case Against Black MirrorSeeing the future through a glass, dimly.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  38. who?
    Here’s Where You Know That Black Mirror Actor FromOh, him! And her!
    By Jackson McHenry
  39. overnights
    Black Mirror Season Finale Recap: Not the Bees!“Hated in the Nation” splits the difference between storytelling and wild-eyed prophecy.
    By Charles Bramesco
  40. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: Know Your Enemy, Know Why You Fight“Men Against Fire” is the weakest episode of the season.
    By Charles Bramesco
  41. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: Heaven Is a Place on Earth“San Junipero” is Black Mirror at its best.
    By Charles Bramesco
  42. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: We Saw What You Did“Shut Up and Dance” stuffs a cautionary tale with empty sadism.
    By Charles Bramesco
  43. overnights
    Black Mirror Recap: Game Over (and Over and Over)Warning: spiders ahead.
    By Charles Bramesco
  44. overnights
    Black Mirror Season-Premiere Recap: For the Love of God, Please Like Me“Nosedive” turns a monstrous premise into a great hour of television.
    By Charles Bramesco
  45. chats
    Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker Avoids Watching All Sci-FiStop asking him if he’s watched Her.
    By Stacey Wilson Hunt
  46. tv review
    Black Mirror Is Mostly Still Great in Its Third SeasonThe show is back to remind you, once again, that technology will ruin you.
    By Jen Chaney
  47. annotations
    105 Things That Influenced Black MirrorWatching the show can be a dizzying experience, but it’s not without its forebears, and Brooker is keen to share them.
    As told to Jesse Singal
  48. Charlie Brooker on Trump and and the Internet“We’re all helplessly spiraling into corners and bellowing at each other. I miss everything being boring.”
    By Jesse Singal
  49. trailer mix
    Watch the Black Mirror Season 3 TrailerThe future is coming October 21.
    By Jackson McHenry
  50. first look
    Here’s a First Look at the Dystopian Future of Black Mirror Season 3From the episodes “San Junipero” and “Nosedive.”
    By Jackson McHenry
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