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Season 3 – Black Mirror

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2016

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Drama

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2,500+ Ratings

Featuring stand-alone dramas -- sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia -- "Black Mirror" is a contemporary reworking of "The Twilight Zone" with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world. Each story features its own cast of unique characters, including stars like Bryce Dallas Howard ("The Help"), Alice Eve, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Cullen and Jerome Flynn ("Game of Thrones"). Joe Wright, Dan Trachtenberg, and James Watkins are among the featured directors.

Critics Consensus

Black Mirror answers the call for a larger season with a double batch of solid episodes that prove Charlie Brooker remains a masterful dystopian storyteller.

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Alan Sepinwall

Uproxx

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," longing for the way things used to be.

Nov 16, 2017

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Emily St. James

Vox

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

Rated: 4/5

Nov 15, 2017

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Benjamin Lee

Guardian

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

Nov 15, 2017

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Fiona Flynn

entertainment.ie

Overall, once more Black Mirror has failed to disappoint and made it worth the two-year wait for a new season.

Jan 2, 2020

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Juan Luis Caviaro

Espinof

'Black Mirror' is special. It deserves our time. And it is not for science fiction fans, far from it. It is for anyone who wants stories with different and surprising approaches. [Full Review in Spanish]

Aug 20, 2019

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Matt Fowler

IGN Movies

Not knowing what you're going to get is part of the thrill with Black Mirror - a show whose stories contain the loose connective tissue of how technology and society may be a toxic relationship.

Rated: 8.6/10

Feb 7, 2019

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Milton I

Don't get five stars because of San Junipero. Overrated

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/30/25

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Joshua S

Episode 4 was awful. The other were ok but this one was atrocious.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/30/24

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Benjamin H

I think this batch of stories is the most intriguing, richly painted and daring of all the three i've watched thus far. It is sometimes far fetching or overwhelming, but for the most part it feels warranted.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/09/24

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matthew w

Yes some episodes miss the mark, but episode 3 Shut Up And Dance from season 3 & episode 4 White Christmas from season 2 are just wow. Black Mirror looks into a dystopian future with a innovative look at anything from AI, social media to implantation. The four stars are for all six seasons

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/12/25

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Nick S

Another excellent season with some interesting concepts. 2 of which were, in my opinion, among the series best (Nosedive and San Junipero which, I can't help but believe, inspired the comedy show "Upload"). The rest of the season is pretty damn good too.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/07/23

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Neal T

Brilliant. Exposes American TV for the crap it's become.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/16/23

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Episode 1

Aired Oct 21, 2016

Nosedive

An insecure office worker living in a smiley, status-obsessed, nightmare finds a way to join an old friend as one of society's elites.

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Episode 2

Aired Oct 21, 2016

Playtest

While in Britain, a thrill-seeking globetrotter tests a video game that is terrifyingly advanced.

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Episode 3

Aired Oct 21, 2016

Shut Up and Dance

When a teenager falls into an online trap, he is forced into an uneasy alliance.

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Episode 4

Aired Oct 21, 2016

San Junipero

When Yorkie and Kelly visit San Junipero, a fun-loving beach town full of surf, sun and sex, their lives are changed.

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Episode 5

Aired Oct 21, 2016

Men Against Fire

In the future, soldiers must protect frightened villagers from an infestation of vicious, feral mutants.

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Episode 6

Aired Oct 21, 2016

Hated in the Nation

In the near-future, a police detective in London works with a tech-savvy sidekick to investigate mysterious deaths linked to social media.

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Director: James Watkins, Joe Wright, James Hawes, Dan Trachtenberg, Owen Harris, Jakob Verbruggen
Creator: Charlie Brooker
Executive Producer: Annabel Jones, Charlie Brooker
Screenwriter: Charlie Brooker
Network: Netflix
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date: Oct 21, 2016

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