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    ‘Smithereens’ Is the Only Flop of the New <em>Black Mirror</em> Season

    The Netflix show’s latest run stumbles with a plodding tale about the indifference of social-media companies.
    by David Sims Jun 05, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Stuart Hendry / Netflix

    This story contains spoilers for the episode “Smithereens” from Black Mirror’s fifth season. Read the rest of our show coverage here.

    is, in short, a show about technology. Since debuting in 2011 (it moved to Netflix in 2016), the series has pondered the horrors and wonders of our connected world via stand-alone, near-feature-length episodes that touch on topics such as video gaming, virtual reality, online shaming, and internet dating. Some stories take place in the far future, others in a world mostly resembling our own. But. Yes, the installment is about a fictional social-media app and a nightmarish scenario that unfolds, but it seems like it could’ve been pulled from today’s headlines.

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