Tag: Black Mirror

Black Mirror – Season 7 (2025) | REVIEW

Paul Giamatti in BLACK MIRROR: EULOGY — PHOTO: NETFLIX (Still image from trailers).

Like any season of Black Mirror, the hugely popular British anthology series based around the dangerous rapid development of technology and its influence on humanity, the recently released seventh season has both highs and lows. When I sat down to watch it and jotted down my initial reactions to each and every episode, I was met with, among other things, a solid sequel to one of the series’ most famous episodes, but also one of the most moving episodes of television/streaming I’ve seen all year. Below you’ll find my initial reaction to every episode of the seventh season of Black Mirror.

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‘Hijack,’ ‘The Crowded Room,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Silo,’ ‘Jury Duty,’ and ‘Black Mirror’ (2023) | Bite-Sized Reviews

(L-R) Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso (Apple TV+), Idris Elba in Hijack (Apple TV+), Rebecca Ferguson in Silo (Apple TV+), Tom Holland in The Crowded Room (Apple TV+), Ronald Gladden in Jury Duty (Amazon Studios), and Aaron Paul in Black Mirror (Netflix).

In this edition of Additional Bite-Sized Reviews, I take a look at six series or seasons that I recently finished, four of which are Apple TV+ releases. The outliers are Netflix’s latest season of Black Mirror and the Amazon surprise hit of the year titled Jury Duty, but the remaining four series do a good job of showcasing how Apple’s series library is growing rapidly. Are any of these worth your time? Well, let’s have a look.

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REVIEW: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

Release Poster – Netflix

The following is a short review of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch — an interactive film on Netflix.

Black Mirror as a series has become one of those anthology series events that I look forward to every time it pops up on Netflix. Black Mirror gives us decent-to-great science-fiction stories that don’t always seem far-fetched. But no Black Mirror episode has felt more like an event than its first interactive film — Bandersnatch — which was released on Netflix today. Continue reading “REVIEW: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)” →