You have arrange your VPN simply to test e-mail, you place masking tape over your laptop computer’s internet cam as a result of you realize they’re at all times watching, and also you whisper round your Alexa since you’re sure Jeff Bezos is personally programming the dynamic advertisements that present up whilst you’re on-line. Now it is time to watch some Black Mirror. The one drawback: You have seen each single episode of Black Mirror 3 times! What are you able to watch as an alternative?
Properly, I have been secretly watching you out of your sensible fridge’s internet cam so I do know you’d want some Black Mirror options, which is why I put collectively this checklist of exhibits you need to positively watch subsequent. Most of those are sci-fi, some are anthologies, and a few are from Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, however all of them will depart you saying, “Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?”
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Dead Set
The place to Watch: Netflix
Useless Set
Charlie Brooker’s first large scripted challenge, the five-episode miniseries Dead Set, is basically one lengthy episode of Black Mirror. Satirizing England’s obsession with actuality tv and mixing it with the zombie craze of the late 2000s, Brooker unleashed a zombie apocalypse as seen by the eyes of contestants throughout a season of Large Brother; whereas the remainder of the world burned down and ran from bitey monstrosities, the Large Brother contestants have been none the wiser, locked up within the security of the home… for a short time, a minimum of. Useless Set has Brooker’s trademark mixture of social commentary, violence, and absurdity. The sequence was just lately remade as a Netflix Brazil original called Reality Z, too.
Room 104
The place to Watch: HBO, HBO Max
Dave Bautista, Room 104
Some watch Black Mirror for the cool expertise, some look ahead to the perverse humorousness. However let’s not neglect in regards to the rush you get from beginning each new episode, not realizing what’s coming. The anthology format and unfastened sense of tone provides Black Mirror the sensation of opening up a grab-bag each time you begin an episode. The identical is true of HBO’s anthology Room 104, which takes the thriller of Black Mirror and, in the event you can imagine it, ramps it up just a few extra notches. The half-hour sequence from Mark Duplass takes place, in some capability, in the identical lodge room in every episode. That is the one rule. Some episodes are absurd comedy, some are considerate emotional journeys, some are stuffed with tense horror! However all are bizarre, and Duplass is ready to entice big-name and up-and-coming visitor stars for some actually twisted drop-ins.
Inside No. 9
Watch it on: Hulu
Inside No. 9
The success of the primarily British manufacturing of Black Mirror opened the doorways for different British sequence to embrace the quirky anthology format, and the most effective is that this 2014 oddball sequence. Inside No. 9 was created by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, a pair of sketch comedy execs who acted in and wrote The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville, and although its major focus is on comedy, its surprising turns and extensive number of tones will actually remind you of Black Mirror. Like Room 104, which clearly borrowed from the idea of Inside No. 9‘s idea, the one frequent thread between episodes is that every story is ready in an condo or home with a No. 9 handle. Past that, something goes, together with a Season 1 episode that options zero dialogue however is as zany as the rest on the market. General, there is a bit extra consistency in high quality amongst episodes than Black Mirror, particularly Black Mirror‘s current seasons (sorry, it is true!), however since you may hop round, if you wish to get straight to the great things, watch Season 2’s “The 12 Days of Christine,” a horror-tinged punch-in-the-face that is essentially the most paying homage to Black Mirror at its greatest.
Tales From the Loop
The place to Watch: Amazon Prime
Tales from the Loop
At occasions, Black Mirror finds aching humanity beneath its perverse takes on techno-horror, leaving viewers each fascinated and, frankly, somewhat bummed. There is a comparable feeling to Amazon’s Tales From the Loop, one other sci-fi anthology sequence that shares a singular world with all of its episodes. Set in an alternate universe that I can solely describe as 1980s pastoral steampunk, the tales hook up with a mysterious underground lab often known as The Loop, which practices experimental physics in Mercer, Ohio. Although robots abound, Tales From the Loop uses its beautiful science-fiction background to highlight the emotion of the human experience, overlaying subjects similar to demise, growing old, and loneliness in a stirring approach. Although some characters have their very own overarching tales all through the season, it was designed in order that episodes could be watched in any order. [TV Guide review]
Upload
The place to Watch: Amazon Prime
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Although there may be some debate about what episode of Black Mirror is the best, Season 3’s “San Junipero” (sing it with me, “Ooooh heaven is a spot on Earth!”) is regularly atop rankings. The love story centered round a digital afterlife the place you get to relive your greatest life is the uncommon episode of Black Mirror that can make the perimeters of your mouth curve upwards, with its weird expertise connecting it to the remainder of the sequence. All of that’s on the coronary heart of Upload, Greg Daniels’ sci-fi comedy a couple of younger man who is almost killed by a self-driving automobile and, earlier than he can die, has his consciousness uploaded into Lake View, a fancy post-life neighborhood that enables its inhabitants to stay a digital life whereas additionally nonetheless interacting with the dwelling. There is a heavy dose of very cool expertise, darkish futuristic humor, and secrets and techniques, and its subject material makes it a religious successor to “San Junipero.”
Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
The place to Watch: Amazon Prime
Liam Cunningham and Essie Davis, Philip Okay. Dick’s Electrical Goals
If it is science fiction you are on the lookout for, then your greatest guess is to go to the supply, the godfather of sci-fi, Philip K. Dick. Along with writing the tales that impressed Minority Report, Blade Runner, Total Recall, and The Man in the High Castle, Dick printed greater than 100 brief tales, which function the idea for this Amazon restricted sequence. Every of the 10 episodes relies on a narrative written by Dick, overlaying a number of completely different avenues of sci-fi, from the hardcore tremendous techy stuff to the extra philosophical journeys stemming from a easy sci-fi idea. The outcomes aren’t solely constant, however go together with “The Commuter” for a quiet, emotional episode, or “Kill All Others” for one thing extra dystopian and related right now.
Weird City
Watch it on: YouTube (two episodes obtainable free for sampling), YouTube Premium (full sequence)
Dylan O’Brien, Bizarre Metropolis
Bear in mind when YouTube thought it might be the following large streamer and began asking individuals to BUY a subscription to YouTube Premium? Yeah, that appears like a perplexing nightmare straight out of Black Mirror, but it surely really occurred! One of many higher sequence to come back out of the corporate’s transient lack of judgment was this apparent Black Mirror rip-off co-created by Jordan Peele and Key & Peele author Charlie Sanders. Should you’ve seen any of the extra sci-fi sketches from Key & Peele, that ought to offer you a way of the present’s tone. The six-episode anthology is ready within the metropolis of Bizarre, which is split into two halves, one for the wealthy and one for the poor. That element is not important to the episodes, which inform their very own distinctive tech-centric sci-fi tales with a ton of humor, such because the premiere that by chance hooks Dylan O’Brien up with Ed O’Neill by a heterosexual courting app glitch, solely to search out that the 2 of them begin to fall in love with one another.