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Black Mirror Season Five Thoughts

Striking Vipers - Kinda interesting premise that isn't explored and the central conflict boils down to a homophobic identity crisis.

Smithereens - Insanely anticlimactic and stupid. A couple of interesting plot points surrounding privacy and social media I guess.

Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too - Easily the standout of this season. Interesting stuff about celebrity identity and AI sentience but this episode's mainly just a fun adventure tale. In the context of this season, I really enjoyed it.

Probably my least favourite Black Mirror season to date. Only three episodes and all of them have very little to go off of. The episodes don't really focus on the repercussions of technology like past seasons have, instead they just tie technology into plots that wouldn't be much different without the technological component.

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