Black Mirror is a Netflix show from Britain, which Time magazine calls “a Twilight Zone for the digital age.” There are thirteen disturbing views into the near future, each of the shows involving technology in some fashion.
In the premiere episode, a British princess is kidnapped and the ransom asked for her safe return is for the Prime Minister to have sex with a pig on live television. The powers-that-be want to keep it secret, but it hits social media, which then guides the direction of the story.
In another episode, a woman discovers an app that recreates her dead husband’s personality, so that she can talk to him. But what is the next step, and is it everything she hopes it will be?
Black Mirror is an interesting series, and I will continue to watch it. It’s not exactly The Twilight Zone — it’s twice as long and doesn’t keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time. There’s also no real shock ending as there was in most of the TTZ episodes. It’s more of a low level of unease throughout. Watch it. It can be pure entertainment or a horrible prediction of where we’re heading. Your choice.