The latest season of Netflix's BlackMirror offers the usual skewering of our grim era’s tech and media and politics—but this installment's ideas feel creaky, and in some cases, years late.
Contemporary life, its conundrums and vices and worrisome trends, is hard to keep up with. Inevitably, one loses one’s grip on some facet of modern existence and then everything else goes tumbling after it—or at least it can feel that way. Which is why we can’t really blame, for lagging behind a bit. The five-episode sixth season of offers the usual skewering of our grim era’s tech and media and politics, to intermittently engaging effect.
Look to the brief horror piece “Mazey Day,” which takes celebrity obsession to a bloody, dire extreme. Brooker wants us to know that the paparazzi are bad, as are the nosy proclivities of those of us keeping them in business. This may have been a salient theme around 15 years ago, long before the “Free Britney” movement began; in 2023, it plays as a hoary and slightly unnecessary lecture.
Eventually, things spiral out in a majorly meta way. Brooker pokes at the frightening implications of A.I., at the algorithm-fed content strategy of companies like Netflix, and also, I guess, at people’s prying interest in the mundane transgressions of their neighbors’ lives. This might all resound more were there not another episode here, “Loch Henry,” that takes better aim at the sins of the streaming age.
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