Besides, wouldn't you do some morally questionable things to stop a video like that of yourself from getting out? We might not all go to such extreme lengths to prevent it, but who knows? It's hard not to! He's a sweet, shy, socially anxious young man who helps people, like the little kids who come into his works. The episode tugs on your heartstrings as you fear for and even support Kenny as he commits these terrible acts.
"Black Mirror" reminds us that you never know when it might be your turn on the chopping block! So, the next time you're thinking about being a hater, you might want to reconsider. The players think everything is part of a game, but these are real lives they're dealing with, and if the worst thing everyone ever did was exposed on a global platform, we would all be at each other's throats. This episode is a scathing condemnation of cancel culture and an ominous reminder that hate is a disease. While this starts as a mass of players exacting justice on a handful of public figures, the twist comes later when it's revealed that the players are the real targets, and everyone who used the hashtag, a whopping 387,036 people, is also killed. These slayings soon become a social media game whereby internet users can vote on who they want to be taken out next by using the hashtag #DeathTo. The story follows Detective Karin Parke as she investigates the murder of two problematic individuals under public scrutiny, a journalist who had made insensitive comments regarding a disabled activist's suicide and a rapper who verbally attacked one of his younger fans. The episode is a dystopian nightmare of eugenics, militarism, and PTSD, critiquing our current political climate as well as sending a stern warning of a future not too far off.
While the soldiers believe they are heroes saving the day against terror-inflicting humanoid monsters, they are actually carrying out a relentless genocide against those the military believes to be inferior. They're just a cover-up for their actual purpose - to make humans appear to be grotesque monsters to the soldiers so they don't feel as bad about killing them. It's eventually revealed that these fantasies are not the true function of the transmitter. However, throughout the episode, Stripe experiences glitches in his vision that distort not only these fantasies but also his day-to-day visuals of external reality. Commentary aside, that image alone is more than enough to earn "Arkangel" a spot on this list.Īs a reward for killing roaches, soldiers sometimes have sexual experiences, visions, and dreams fed to them through a "Men in Black" type flash technology that transmits these visuals to an optical transmitter in their head. It's also just an extreme invasion of privacy, as demonstrated when the mom taps into her daughter's vision as a teenager and sees her losing her virginity from the daughter's point of view. This episode demonstrates - in a bone-chilling way - how the natural parental inclination to shield your child from the evils of the world is not necessarily the most practical one, as they may never develop the skills to handle danger.
At first, the child walks past the barking blur with hesitance, but as the child grows, we see them walk past without paying the animal any mind, oblivious to the danger right in front of them. The mom also shields the child from a scary dog in the neighborhood. For example, a mom censoring her child from seeing blood leads to the child repeatedly stabbing themselves in an attempt to see whatever it is that's being blurred from their vision. While this technology presents itself as a revolutionary way to monitor a child's safety and well-being, it ends up having the reverse effect.
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