Right now in Hollywood, the screenwriters of the Writers Guild of America are on strike. And one reason they're on strike is the fear that AI will take their jobs, churning out mediocre content quickly and cheaply that helps streamers' bottom lines even if it doesn't contribute much culturally speaking. (Disclosure: The Verge's editorial staff is represented by the Writers Guild of America East.) Actors have also announced an intent to strike, and one reason is their desire to preserve the rights to their own likenesses, so streamers can't build digital facsimiles that do all the work with none of the pay. Directors are voting on their own c …

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Technology is embedded in every single aspect of our lives, which gives it a significant opportunity for make every aspect of our lives go horribly wrong. Each episode of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror takes a different look at the dangers of technology run amok, but the twist is that it’s often the people who are the problem, not the gear. Episode by episode, we’re looking at where Brooker’s twisted imagination leads us.

• Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too is Black Mirror’s stab at a feel-good teen comedy
• Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers is startlingly grown-up about its adult video game fantasy
• Netflix’s Osmosis is like a Black Mirror episode that doesn’t hate technology
• The missing endings we wanted to see in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
• The biggest thing missing from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s horror story about a career in games
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch could become Netflix’s secret marketing weapon
• Black Mirror Season 5 now coming in 2019, with more optimistic stories
• The Reddit detectives are hard at work decoding Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is Netflix’s new interactive special that won’t play on everything
• One of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s games is available to play right now
• The Black Mirror card game isn’t soul-crushing enough to reflect the show
• Netflix will reportedly release an interactive Black Mirror episode in 2018
• Black Mirror’s new website will reveal your relationship’s expiration date
• To stay relevant, Black Mirror has to change how dystopian fiction works
• Amazon’s Electric Dreams is more optimistic about the future than Black Mirror
• Black Mirror’s Crocodile lacks a meaningful perspective on surveillance or privacy
• Black Mirror’s Arkangel misses out on so many story opportunities
• Black Mirror’s Metalhead suggests technological disruption is unavoidable (and terminal)
• The dating-app future of Black Mirror’s Hang The DJ doesn’t seem that implausible
• In season 11, The X-Files is slowly moving closer to Black Mirror
• Ricky Gervais collaborator Karl Pilkington predicted two Black Mirror stories — but that isn’t as weird as it sounds
• Black Mirror’s Black Museum episode is packed with Easter eggs
• In Black Museum, Black Mirror finally finds a single person to blame for technology
• In Black Mirror’s USS Callister, the true villains are real-world tech moguls
• Season 4 of Black Mirror now has a release date and seven trailers
• What does the future hold for the futures of Black Mirror?
• Black Mirror’s Hated in the Nation creates a world where everyone is at fault
• In Men Against Fire, Black Mirror takes on the future of warfare
• Black Mirror’s episode Shut Up and Dance is hacking torture-porn
• Black Mirror director Dan Trachtenberg explains why horror stories are ‘good for your soul’
• Playtest is Black Mirror’s terrifying glimpse at the future of gaming
• Black Mirror’s third season opens with a vicious take on social media
• Watch the first trailer for Black Mirror’s third season
• Netflix will be releasing new episodes of Black Mirror on October 21st
• I can’t stop comparing everything to Black Mirror

The fifth season of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on June 5th, 2019. We're looking at each of the season's three episodes to see what they have to say about current culture and projected fears.

Spoiler warning: This essay does not give away the ending of "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too," but it does reveal some major plot twists.

Black Mirror has a frustrating tendency to treat characters as mindless dupes seduced by blatantly creepy technology. The season 5 episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" seems like a perfect antidote …

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The fifth season of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on June 5th, 2019. We're looking at each of the season's three episodes to see what they have to say about current culture and projected fears.

Spoiler warning: This essay does not give away the ending of "Striking Vipers," but it does reveal the episode's first major plot twist since it's difficult to address any of the episode's themes otherwise.

At its most intense and celebrated, the bleak-futures series Black Mirror has extrapolated from common technologies and tech-r …

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Black Mirror's fifth season will return to Netflix with three new episodes on June 5th, and to promote the return of the series, it will release a trio of extremely short episodes on its América Latina YouTube channel.

The three Little Black Mirror episodes will feature several YouTube stars from Latin America, according to Variety. Netflix approached the YouTubers ( Maia Mitchell, Rudy Mancuso, Juanpa Zurita, Lele Pons, Anwar Jibawi, Hannah Stocking, Jeff Wittek, Delaney Glazer and Alesso), to "create their own takes on Black Mirror. The episodes will be released on May 26th, June 2nd, and June 6th on the channel.

The next season of Black …

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Season five of Black Mirror is coming to Netflix on June 5th, and you can watch the first trailer for the show right now.

As ever, the anthology series will focus on questions regarding technology, society, and our understanding of ourselves. (Themes best encapsulated - and parodied - by the phrase "what if phones, but too much.") The trailer shows tantalizing glimpses of a number of stories, including what looks to be a live-streamed public break down, and a young schoolgirl who receives encouragement from a social robot to become a pop star.

Season five of the show will contain just three episodes, but Netflix and Black Mirror's producer …

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Virtually every episode of Charlie Brooker's Netflix anthology series Black Mirror is an Atlantic cover story about how technology is either corrupting the populace or threatening the children. The episode "Nosedive" warns that the drive for social media likes will create a society of enforced saccharine smarm. "Arkangel" worries that advances in surveillance technology will enable mega helicopter parenting, leading repressed kids into meaningless lives of sex, drugs, and other mischief. Even the relatively upbeat "Hang the DJ" imagines a future where dating apps create and torture sentient AIs to test them for compatibility. In Brooker's wo …

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Warning: spoilers ahead for some of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch's final endings.

Almost as soon as Netflix's interactive Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch hit the streaming service on December 28th, internet detectives were racing through the story, trying to map the branches and discover all the available endings to the choose-your-own-adventure narrative. And shortly after that, viewers began taking to social media with mostly joking complaints about the resolutions they didn't get, from a Colin / Stefan romance to a "surgery on a grape" meme ending someone was gaslighted into expecting. Above all, viewers have repeatedly wished for a pure …

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