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The Evolution of Black Mirror: Embracing a Strange Present and Exploring a Familiar Past
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The Evolution of Black Mirror: Embracing a Strange Present and Exploring a Familiar Past

From cautionary tales of tomorrow to sobering narratives of today

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Ben Ulansey
Jul 30, 2024
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Black Mirror is a show like no other. With few exceptions, each episode in its first four seasons centers around a futuristic technology, and the depictions are disturbingly well-realized.

But before even the arrival of the fourth season, I’d begun to wonder just how long the formula Black Mirror had established could work before growing st…

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