Black Mirror: a jarring insight into technology

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 Black Mirror is the name of the anthology series concocted wonderfully by the front runner of the show called Charles Brooker. Black mirror is just a cerebral take on how people's lives are constantly dictated by the whims of modern technology and its subsequent harmful repercussions on our lives. Each episode aims to understand the collective zeitgeist which has been ruined due to modern technology.

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Given the motif of the entire series, it is a no-brainer that every single episode is set in grim and ominous dystopian settings. With the latest of innovations ruling the roost, the show is one of those highly though provoking albeit filled with really laudable scenarios throughout. With unbelievable premises in each episode leading to a final buildup and an equally enticing climax full of cliffhangers, it leaves you on the edge of your set literally and figuratively.

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I for one hadn't really encountered a TV show quite as exciting and brilliant as this.From the superb picturizations to even having a star-studded cast that includes Cristin Milioti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Daniel Kaluuya, Hayley Atwell and many more to hauntingly lilting background scores, this show has it all. So much so that binging it season wise in a single day became the norm. Yes I know, I have no life.

Anyways, Black Mirror symbolises the screens that we are ubiquitously glued to, every second of the livelong day


I am a budding journalist with a keen eye on the goings on of the world and a professional foodie, if that makes any sense. I have a slight interest in photography by dabbling in it and also would like to make the world a better place through the written word.

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