Dimantha, Black Mirror and Christmas : End of 2016

I personally loved Black Mirror : Season 01. It's style and the way the tv series was built is so unique and dark you get addicted to the characters and the story arc in a scary way.

So I actually wasted my whole November and December of 2016 to cover up the new (which is the 3rd Season) and the 2nd season. They were equally amazing.

Simply BM (Black Mirror) is about how dark technological advancements can effect on the natural human condition due to it's artificial structure. The episodes are though made in anthology style will reflect a connectivity in a small detail level making BM more of small tv series niche universe, and it actually worked out because now BM has a strong cult following and also is ranked among the best television shows in the world.

So here begins the review....

BM : Season 02

BM : S2 though not powerful as the first season thematically, is very powerful in technical development.

Episodes like "Be right back" touches on the privacy of life and how it affects through technology. The episode builds on an AI which has an awesome technicality and it is unforgettable experience for the viewers. Thematically  it is even saddening and emotional it is quite scary how human emotions can be imitated.

"White Bear" is a dramatic experience and a wild take on punishment and moral justice through technological advancement. More like a modern adaptation of "A clockwork Orange" from Stanley Kubrick but a bit of over the top in making it too atmospheric. Anyway a dark BM experience with a more experimental take on TV.

Episode "The Waldo Moment" is pure BM. It is back with the politics and media. And it expands into global conspiracy. Another experimental experience from BM.

But overall the darker aspect existed in BM : S1 is not there.

Overall - 3.5/5

BM  :  White Christmas (Special Edition)

BM Special WC (White Christmas) is back on track on par to S1. It is dark to the core with aspects of marketing, consumerism, AI and human relationships. This more of a long episode has links to the prior S1 and S2.

This makes this the first episode to expand on the universe of BM.

More like a twisted christmas special this episode questions the human mind itself and scares the hell out of the viewers when we see a replication of the human mind.

The technologies from prior season's has also have passed on to BM : WC with more modifications.

This one is pretty good. So I'm keeping it to the viewers.

Overall - 4/5

BM  :  Season 03

 BM : S03 doubles the number of episodes and the technical level of the Tv series also builds up. The universe of BM also expands.

 I will not go into each and every episode but this season quite adds up some innovations to the sci-fi universe and specially to BM universe.

This season shows promise and variety and the BM team has still got some skills in innovation.

My favourite was "Play Test". Which was structured as a virtual reality game play fused with a haunting horror/terror aspect. The sci-fi aspect questions the factors of memory and existence itself.

And episodes like "San Junipero"are also amazing it covers culture of many generations as well as the human existence itself. Breaking many social and technological taboos built in religion, Socio-cultural aspects. Basically humans play god in this episode.

A darker cyber bullying aspect is touched for the first time in the episode "Shut up and dance".

Overall BM is expanding into many darker aspects of technology touching many diverse social aspects connected to technology.


Overall - 3.5/5