<i>Black Mirror</i>'s Universe Coalesces
In the sci-fi anthology series’s fourth season, a unifying theme pulls the show together in unprecedented fashion.
The biggest accomplishment of the fourth season of set to be released Friday on Netflix, is that for the first time the dystopian speculative anthology series takes its manifold anxieties about humanity’s future and smooshes them together into a single thematic tube. Past episodes have tackled vigilante justice and reality television, social-media shaming and pickup artistry, internet surveillance and war, all warped slightly by fictional, but plausible, technology. But tech itself isn’t ’s Big Bad. We are: a species prone to grandiose dreams of easier lives, embracing dubious, untested ways to get there. The show is a series of disturbing parables about how
