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Black Mirror - Season 5 Episode 01: Striking Vipers
Crosswise over four seasons and a special film Bandersnat, Black Mirror has figured out how to make such an extraordinary progress. The series gets back again with the fifth season which introduces a chain of stories that features on the terrible impacts of the cutting edge innovation and it might lead us to lose our best relations, additionally it can lead us to franticness.
Owen Harris, Carl Tibbetts, Otto Bathurst, Euros Lyn, Brian Welsh, Bryn Higgins, James Hawes, Dan Trachtenberg, Jakob Verbruggen, James Watkins, Joe Wright, Jodie Foster, Toby Haynes, John Hillcoat, Colm McCarthy, David Slade, Timothy Van Patten
If this is, at heart, a story of a man railing against his own perceived lack of agency, it seems ironic that the scriptwriters should reduce him to such a cipher also.
Black Mirror has had a lot of brilliant episodes, but few have had this level of literary merit, allowing for all sorts of analysis for those willing to plumb its depths.
Scott, superb here, can deliver all of that with just a look. It's his astonishing control and range that elevated a too-tidy plot into something much messier and more profound.
"Smithereens" gets in a few interesting jabs, but Charlie Brooker's script is hampered by how thin the plot is, how long it takes for the action to get going, and how simplistic the big mystery turns out to be.
It's too bad that wasn't what the episode was ultimately about. Though "Smithereens" finishes weakly, the road there is pretty good, but unlike road trip clichés, Black Mirror is more about the destination than the journey.