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Not all the episodes are created equal, but even the lesser installments give the series a sheen of impressive physical and mental athleticism.

Of the six new episodes… four fall in the very good to great range, which is still a respectable average. The two merely decent ones borrow mo...

The ideas are for the most part strong, the delivery largely superlative, so jump right in – but be warned, the water’s cold. This is th...

It may be the best binge-watching TV show around – I’ll bet you can’t watch just one… it’s a cult TV offering that you...

Even the episodes that miss the mark feel like they’re striving for something we don’t usually get from modern television.

Season three holds up against early standouts.

The future is still pretty damn bleak in Black Mirror’s third season, and yet there’s more hopeful humanism in this crop of dystopian t...

Despite running just about an hour in length, each episode has found a way to establish a world, with its own rules and proprietary technologi...

It’s probably the scariest series you’ll ever watch but not in the serial killer, bloods, guts and gore vein.

Welcome to the machine: Black Mirror is finally blowing American brains in its excellent third season, after years as a word-of-mouth cult hit.

There’s something that’s more honest – and oddly sanguine – about Black Mirror than classically upbeat programs.

Black Mirror continues to be as bracingly original and thought-provoking as ever before, a Twilight Zone-influenced gem for the technology age that...

Black Mirror is not always subtle and never light viewing, but it remains anchored in beautifully observed truths about how tech amplifies existing...

These six episodes are all engrossing in their way, and the season has remarkable visual and geographic scope.

I’m glad Black Mirror continues to exist, but I spent a lot of these new episodes feeling like the Cherry Jones character from Nosedive...

The defining quality of the new season is… a consuming interest in online humiliation and how the internet has enabled and accelerated public...

By the time the theme of technology at odds with our humanity emerges, we’ve already been skillfully guided to invest in the characters of ea...

Far from far-fetched, this sh*t is real, and if it’s not here now, it’s only five minutes away. That’s the scary thing – and...

Creator Charlie Brooker, who has written or cowritten every episode of the third season, touches again on one of Black Mirror’s themes about...

This season’s batch of Black Mirror episodes are more consistently compelling than ever. It’s tough to say exactly why, because so much...

The show is still sometimes excellent, but often forgets what made the first two seasons so great.

Brooker’s show retains its status as a marvel, hinting at darker and greater things to come.

This antiseptic, pastel-coloured Stepford-cum-Brave New World is superbly and thought-provokingly drawn, a ring of hell barely distinguishable from...

The very best aspect of Black Mirror, the thing that makes the show so compelling, is that Brooker and his collaborators have developed a real...

The danger with any anthology, of course, is that you’re only as good as your last episode. The fact that Black Mirror so consistently delive...

The increased episode count of season three allows Black Mirror to show off its full range of tricks, but it’s the episodes that make a...