Black Mirror season 4 on Netflix: news and episode reviews

This article is a recap of Black Mirror’s season four episode “Crocodile.” It contains spoilers and discussion regarding the episode’s plot.

There are no crocodiles in “Crocodile,” the third episode of Black Mirror’s fourth season. In fact, it’s set in Iceland, where there are no crocodiles to be found at all.

This article is a recap of Black Mirror’s season four episode “Arkangel.” It contains spoilers and discussion regarding the episode’s plot.

Some Black Mirror episodes take place in a world so far-flung from our own that they’re much easier to digest as science fiction fantasies. Other times, they feel more adjacent to reality, delivering dire warnings of technology run amok in fallible hands.

This article is a recap of Black Mirror’s season four episode “Hang the DJ.” It contains spoilers and discussion regarding the episode’s plot.

While watching Black Mirror’s “Hang the DJ” for the first time, I swiped left on my phone at least 15 times. I don’t really remember any of the people’s faces. I just remember that I didn’t want to date any of them. Maybe it was the picture of them with the fish, or the way their smile curved, or the receding hairline — it was so easy to brush them off my screen. And at the same time, no doubt, there were men swiping left on me for similar superficial reasons: my hair, my teeth, my breadstick arms.