Black Mirror - Season 4 (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Creator: Charlie Brooker
	Actors: -
	Country: GB
	Genre: Thriller, SF
	Conditions of visioning: VOD, 10" tablet screen, July 2018 - July 2019
Synopsis: This SF anthology series explores a twisted, high-tech near-future where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.
Review: This season made me the exact same impression as the previous one, and in the same way I made a very long pause between episodes 4 and 5 because the endings are often too depressing to watch in the evening. Like cinema, more and more the series uses the idea of consciousness transfer as I recently pointing out after watching Replicas. As for the previous seasons it is possible to rate the episodes individually. S4E1: USS Callister. A funny way to introduce some cheesy Star-Trek-like Space adventure into a realistic series in which mankind is definitely staying on Earth and staring at its feet. Funny and as usual, not so much for one character in the end... 8/10 S4E2: Arkangel. A lesson of morale against over-using technology to monitor your loved ones with the idea to protect them. As usual in Dark Mirror, it doesn't end so well for our character. 7/10 S4E3: Crocodile. A down-spiral guilt trip, somehow a classical polar story enhanced by the technological gimmick used. One of the most depressing of the whole series. 6/10. S4E4: Hang the DJ. A love story and how it can go wrong, or go well. Thanks for the ending. 6/10 S4E5: Metalhead. A Black and White post-apocalyptic world, a woman facing a machine. Simple and efficient. 6/10 S4E6: Black Museum. As done in season 2, this one concludes with an anthology within the anthology. Two stories plus many winks to other episodes in the same Universe wrapped by a third. Starring Letitia Wright (Shuri in Black Panther). Spine-chilling if you put yourself at the place of the victims. 7/10 I have the feeling that the series now start to renew itself, at the risk of losing its audience. I will keep on watching it but as usual weary of the depressing endings.
Rating: 7 /10