Tag: Black Mirror

  • AI, robot alter-egos: fans hail ‘Black Mirror’s new season as its best ever

    AI, robot alter-egos: fans hail ‘Black Mirror’s new season as its best ever

    Warning: spoilers

    Netflix’s thriller series ‘Black Mirror’ set hearts racing with the trailer for its latest season, revealing that the dystopian series was about to provide an even more grim experience. Popular actors like Annie Murphy, Salma Hayek and Aaron Paul star in the episodes.

    The show had been on a break since 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, as series creator Charlie Brooker explained to Entertainment Weekly that in dystopian times, humanity could do with a break.

    The show previously broken records with critically acclaimed episodes like ‘The Entire History Of You’, ‘San Junipero” and even “White Bear” all of them discussed the dangers of depending on tech, and how it breeds the corrupt nature of humans. This time, fans were wondering if the show would be able to surpass its own expectations and deliver an outstanding season after three long years of waiting.

    And it was worth the wait.

    This season delved into the rise of AI generated images and videos, which would soon make deep-fake videos of other people without their consent, how the obsession with murder documentaries leads to a man exploiting his own family, and another episode starring Aaron Paul exploring a new invention in the 1960s that makes robot replicas of two astronauts who are completing a six year mission up in space.

    And twitter users ate them all up.

  • Miley Cyrus to be part of ‘Black Mirror’s’ season 5

    Miley Cyrus to be part of ‘Black Mirror’s’ season 5

    Sci-fi series Black Mirror is all set to return for its fifth season on June 5, Netflix announced. The star-studded cast of the technology-fueled paranoia includes pop singer Miley Cyrus, Avengers actor Anthony Mackie, That 70s Show’s Topher Grace and Fleabag star Andrew Scott.

    Creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones return with three new stories, six months after the release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, an interactive special edition of the show that offered viewers the chance to pick from a range of scenarios.

    The streaming giant shared a trailer for the new series that opened with Scott’s character sitting in a car holding a gun while in a stand-off with police.

    A bored-looking Mackie then appears in a domestic scene, while in a third story, a purple-wigged Cyrus takes to the stage to perform in front of an audience.

    Black Mirror, whose stories look at the effects of advanced technology on modern society, debuted in the United Kingdom in 2011.

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