Black Mirror season 7 tugs at your heartstrings while skewering tech

Black Mirror started out as a grim, dark, and nihilistic exploration of near-future tech. But with the tragic romance of âSan Juniperoâ in season 3, the anthology slowly started to shift its priorities. Early on, everything was bad: the technology and the people. And the former was used to show how awful the latter was, […]

Apr 10, 2025 - 13:54

Black Mirror season 7 tugs at your heartstrings while skewering tech

Black Mirror started out as a grim, dark, and nihilistic exploration of near-future tech. But with the tragic romance of âSan Juniperoâ in season 3, the anthology slowly started to shift its priorities. Early on, everything was bad: the technology and the people. And the former was used to show how awful the latter was, highlighting how its characters were largely stupid, greedy, and desperate. New technologies just brought out their worst tendencies. Steadily, though, the humans in the show have become more, well, human. Sure, some are stupid and evil, but many are just trying to do their best with the worst-case scenarios introduced by thoughtless tech advancements. The new season takes this philosophy even further â some episodes even have happy endings.

Perhaps the best example of this is the episode âHotel Reverie.â When a golden age-era movie studio finds itself facing closure, it partners with a tech startup led by Kimmy (Awkwafina) that promises to remake its most famous film â Hotel Reverie â cheaply, quickly, and with the help of a Hollywood A-lister. After losing out on all of the Ryans (Gosling and Reynolds), the studio signs Brandy (Issa Rae), a perpetu …

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