BLACK MIRROR Season 1 - 6 EVERY Episode Ranked
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- I rank every episode from Black Mirror Season 1 to Season 6. I review, breakdown and explain all episodes and answer why they deserve to be in the position that they're in and which are the best episodes. I react to each instalment, call out the easter eggs and give in depth views on the plot, characters and time period.
00:00 Intro
01:40 Mazey Day
02:30 The Waldo Moment
03:21 Striking Vipers
04:16 Hang The DJ
05:00 Ark Angel
05:40 Crocodile
06:24 Metalhead
07:00 Men Against Fire
07:40 Joan Is Awful
08:22 Smithereens
09:02 Hated In The Nation
09:47 Demon 79
10:38 Black Museum
11:30 USS Callister
12:31 Bandersnatch
13:11 The National Anthem
14:16 Loch Henry
15:11 San Junipero
16:04 Playtest
16:47 White Bear
17:32 Beyond The Sea
18:27 Shut Up And Dance
19:27 Fifteen Million Merits
20:15 Be Right Back
21:14 Nosedive
22:10 White Christmas
23:12 The Entire History Of You
24:34 Outro
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This was such a fun video to make! What is your ranking of ALL of the Black Mirror episodes? Comment yours below!
You forgot about Men Against Fire, bandersnatch isnt technically an episode in the series so i think you counted that instead in your 28
@@dylanmcdougall5758 he said men against fire
Rank videos are hard because everyone has their own opinions, but I think you summed up the worst of them and some of the best. Metalhead, Mazie Day, and Ashley Too were definitely among the worst. Definitely didn't agree with the entire list -- you ranked some of my favorites pretty low, but again, to each his own.
Rank videos are hard because everyone has their own opinions, but I think you summed up the worst of them and some of the best. Metalhead, Mazie Day, and Ashley Too were definitely among the worst. Definitely didn't agree with the entire list -- you ranked some of my favorites pretty low, but again, to each his own.
My list is very similar. But I didn't like Beyond the sea, White Christmas was too sad for my liking, and I rated San Junipero as number 1
I really enjoyed Hang the DJ. It was a simple, well-acted and emotionally resonant story that's stayed in my mind long after the credits rolled. The tech was also eerily plausible, though obviously a bit exaggerated for dramatic impact. It was sad to see it so far down on your list.
Definitely
Agree
My thoughts exactly!
I agree
Me too! It would be in my top 5 I would say. I’m normally pretty good at guessing endings but I didn’t see this one coming at all and it made me cry and stuck with me
I go back and watch "Hated in the Nation" fairly regularly. It feels so different from most other episodes cause of it's pacing, it's by far the longest episode and is constantly adding new elements to the story. It feels like a movie.
I also loved Fifteen Million Merits, it was the first episode I saw and is still the most memorable.
Yeah totally agree about Hated in The Nation. That's my biggest issue with it. It is so slow when compared to the others.
Same here. I've watched Hated in the Nation several times
I always rank "Shut Up And Dance" high because that was the episode that got me fully into Black Mirror and I had to go back and watch the other episodes. It made me realise that when you watch Black Mirror the people you follow are misleading you and they're usually the villains in the end. Speaking of misleading you and being the villain in the end "Beyond The Sea" is probably my favorite. Aaron Paul did wonderful.
I do the same with white bear
@@lascosasporsunombre8991 that one too! i think i watched that next and was crushed
I actually watched Striking Vipers first, because when you click on it for the first time it brings up the most recent season's first episode, and at the time season 5 was still young. I actually loved the episode and immediately realized it was the wrong season so I went back and binged it. Even though it is not my favorite and I know it is not the greatest episode, it is still one I can revisit and enjoy.
agree. it’s one of my very favorites and i still get giddy waiting for the ending. rewatching it is a joy. i make my friends watch that episode with me so i can relive the naïveté of not knowing what happens. a very realistic story, makes you feel insanely fooled. the climax is insane, the music they use and the lighting is crazy.
@@airbornemelody6156 that's actually a good idea! I hope they were terrified like we were
What I like about this show is that I'm never, ever able to predict how it'll go. Like in Beyond the Sea, I thought the other guy was going to kill Aaron Paul's character, maybe by leaving him outside the capsule, and also lie to the wife, trying to pass himself off as her husband. But she catches on when she hears him humming one of the records he liked to play.
As for me, I caught the twist early on. So it wasn't quite as shocking to me. I like Joan is Awful and Loch Henry more because of their pacing.
I mean the ship can’t operate if one is gone so I kinda knew it was going to lead to that but it was still crazy what happened
It’s strange that out of all the episodes, you note Beyond the Sea as particularly unpredictable. As soon as Josh Hartnett’s character had his family murdered, and it kept switching between showing us his family and Aaron Paul’s charcater’s family, I knew where it was going. Which is why I supposed I don’t really like it. It just felt unrewarding when I had to watch a plot unfold for 90 minutes that I had guessed in the first 10. Plus there are logistical inadequacies and plot holes in there that kind of ruin the immersion for me.
The Entire History of You, Be Right Back, and San Junipero really stand out to me because they were not just about technology, but about relationships between normal people.
Couldn't agree more! Another personal, emotional layer to the plots!
San Junípero has a timing developing the story that is amazing
I felt all these episodes were overrated.
My favorite episodes were
1. USS Callister
2. Black Museum
3. White Christmas
4. Shut Up and Dance
5. White Bear
Edit: it seems like you’re a fan of the more personal small scale episodes, where I lean more towards the massive stakes large scale episodes
@@duffal0who asked
@@juanflores8442who asked u he’s just saying his opinion man
nah having hang the dj that low is a violation, i loved that episode, one of the few episodes that actually have a feel good ending
Totally agree, I loved that episode! Easily in my top 10.
Same. I'd put Hang the DJ near the top 5. That, Crocodile and The Waldo Moment could all move up 5 or 10 places.
Nosedive, Hated in the Nation and Smithereens could move the same amount.
Then it would be close to my thoughts.
@@jameslfc11 such a feel good episode tbh
@@kevtb874 Nosedive is up there too, really is a accurate reflection of todays society.
@@greatapegino i liked the concept. Just didn't think it was a particularly well written episode and didn't take the idea to the most interesting places.
Playtest is my absolute favorite because of the the many plottwists. It got to a moment which I got actually scared and was so unsure of the reality of the show, and then when I was sure, they cracked it again. Also the kind of mystery going on between the character and his parents are really engaging even tho it wasn't fully elaborated which makes it even cooler to me (I also like some horror)
It might not be my favorite episode ( Def a top 10 maybe top 5), but the ending is still my favorite ending. The fact that he died within 0.04 sec. before he even got to the mole game is crazy. Also, when you are about to die, your neurons do all fire in rapid succession and can simulate hallucinations and false sensory observations like the ones he had. So that just adds to the whole thing. I don't think he had those experiences because of the machine, I think that was his neurons all firing in hundreds of a second and him hallucinating it all. Still terrifying. The brain is a crazy thing.
Honestly, it was a good episode, but it would be much better if the main character wasn’t so annoying. Dude literally wouldn’t shut up. I just watched this episode today
i just love the guy who‘s the protagonist in that one. seems like such a good dude who i‘d love to have a beer with
Just realized that the mom from Loch Henry was the police chief from Smithereens
Good spot!
Hang the DJ is one of my favorite black mirror episodes, pretty surprised that it is ranked so low.
Yeah I didn't realise that it was so well received!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Such a great show! To this day White Christmas has stuck with me the most, mainly due to the final scene where the two police officers nonchalantly crank up the loop timer to, what was it, a million years, give a little chuckle and then leave for their holiday weekend. Utterly horrifying!
Glad you enjoyed! So many good episodes. It’s rare to think that out of 28 there’s probably only three that are “meh”. And yeah, that’s such a haunting moment!
I just wanted to thank you for mentioning the supporting cast of “Beyond the Sea”. They all did amazing jobs, and tend to be overlooked by Aaron and Josh’s performances.
Every single cast member brought something to the performance. Even Henry and his slightly absent but observant nature!
One of the best episodes :)
hang the DJ is one of my favourite episodes, even if it doesn't really fit black mirror due to the happy ending
That's a fair choice!
I think that's the reason they placed this episode right after one of the darkest episodes "Crocodile"
I really feel like arkangel doesn’t get enough love. I found it very powerful as someone who’s a mother now and was also once a teenage girl.
True, it is a good episode!
The ending to Beyond the Sea was surreal. I quite literally was left speechless, jaw dropped, staring at my black mirror while the credits scrolled. Brilliant ending from such an incredible show. Loved the video!!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video!
Really? It felt incredibly predictable.
I’ll forever love be right back, san junipero, white christmas, nosedive & crocodile the most because they feel the most character-driven which i love
My favorite thing about Playtest is that in a rewatch, if you are wearing headphones, you can hear a phone vibrating incorporated into the music. Sonething youd never take note of the first time, but something ultimately gutwrenching when you finally notice. I remember thinking my phone was vibrating the whole time he was in the game.
That's a really cool thought!
I liked “Shut Up and Dance” because of how they try to make you think one thing and the twist changes the whole story where he turns out to be a pedophile. Beyond the Sea is my next episode that I’m going to recommend everyone to watch. I just love when they make you think he was going to lock him outside of the ship to die and secretly take over his body only to have a completely unexpected twist at the end that gives me chicken skin while the credits roll.
I think it was obvious David wouldn't let Cliff die because Cliff himself told his wife they needed eachother because their mission was designed for 2 earlier in the episode, otherwise David could've just stabbed him while he was laying on that bed.
I think It would've been darker if they landed on a planet with enough resources to live but instead of doing research and going back to earth, David killed Cliff and started pretending he was him on earth or if Cliff's wife simply accepted the fact that David was dead and didn't care because she fell in love with David. There was no reason for David to go back so he could just wake up to eat and go back lol.
Yeah, it was pretty damn obvious that he was going to kill the family.
My ‘fix’ would have been to show a scene after the final one, where the two of them, while still loathing one another, are mutually cooperating to work the ship and have an agreed roster to use the body, because there’s no other choice other than mutual destruction.
My favourites are Black Museum and White Bear. I did like Loch Henry but i predicted the mums involvement straight away
I think this show has slowly turned into the most important TV Series of our generation. Seriously you can get so much conversation and discussion out of each of the episodes. I was at the basketball court today and overheard someone saying that they needed to get home to finish the rest of season 6. Damn Good Television.
It’s very ‘McDonald’s’ philo sci-fi a lot of the time imo. Tech bad, titillate you with that concept, repeat the process, that’s the show.
Great list, I really enjoyed it. Thinking about White Christmas it strikes me how sad it was for the man who thought he had a child. Had the women uttered three simple words "it's not yours" she could have saved him an eternity of pain. She is the true villian of this episode.
Glad you enjoyed the ranking!
Tbh she could have prevented the entire chaos
Thanks for this video, it was fun seeing which episodes you genuinely enjoyed, and which you found just passable.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I go back and watch White Christmas all the time the story was well constructed and it all paid off to an amazing ending. That episode along with The Entire history of you are the two episodes I recommend to other people to watch no matter what. They do the best at mixing the technology with the story and imo have to best endings in all of Blackmirror.
Overall good list I definitely have a different list then yours 3-28 but you got the two most important ones at the top.
my personal ranking for season 6 episodes alone is: 5)mazey day 4)joan is awful 3)demon 79 2)loch henry 1)beyond the sea. Overall this season was like a 7-8/10 in my opinion.
My exact ranking
Solid ranking!
Totally agree!!!
Mazey day pulled down the quality of the season so much more lower - like a clear outlier. Agree with the list too
The season was doing so well before the last two episodes too :/. I wonder why they went the supernatural route. I was flabbergasted in that episode cause wtf was that lmfaoooo.
I just watched white christmas and it blew me away, existential dread showed perfectly on a TV screen
Nosedive is my absolute favorite episode in this entire series so I was secretly hoping for it to be at least top 5 and you can guess how happy I was to see it at #3 for you!
That was such a good one. Her breakdown at the end was so well acted and you really truly felt her hopeless desperation to your core
The one pattern about season 6 that I noticed is that it entirely steers clear of its traditional, prophetic dystopian slant on the abuse of technology in the future. Almost every episode goes back in time and/or has completely abandoned the dystopian sci-if element in favor of more fantasy/supernatural type themes. Like a lot of Black Mirrors previous seasons focusing on dystopian sci-fi creative predictions have almost caught up to where we are today, obviously not literally but in concept and direction we’re not to far from some dystopian milestones. Most of the episodes were good for what they were and I accept that a show doesn’t have to be what I expect exactly. But admittedly, I would’ve been more interested to see episodes set in 2060 challenging Elon Musk’s theory about the singularity. I mean transhumanism with tech is literally being discussed right now. What would that look like in the next decades? Joan is awful is probably the closest to discussing a near future and even this episode confines itself to Netflix making itself the butt of anything antagonistic…Not to be all conspiracy theorist, but as I was going through each episode and noticing how almost all were set in the past..it did almost seem like the traditional approach Black Mirror always took was sort of avoided and abandoned altogether as not to offend tech companies or at least portray them in a bad light to the public as they are literally inventing things at a rate right now that might take us to a dystopian future…idk, it’s a stretch of thinking for sure. But just am sharing this comment because nobody’s discussed this angle yet and maybe others took notice?
That's why it fell flat for me. The premises were mostly good and there, but the time period switches and supernatural elements just took away all the realism.
@@JNB0723Yh same I enjoyed loch henry,Beyond the sea and demon 79 each very good but it didn’t feel like a block mirror episode other than maybe beyond the sea but loch henry felt like a movie instead I don’t mind that too much but I wish they would add some more technology dystopia next season aswell as these
Great rankings! I especially agree with the bottom 3. And ty for ranking White Bear so high. That’s my fav episode and it’s the one that got me onto the show because my dad was explaining the plot and I thought it sounded cool af so I watched and the rest is history.
Thanks a lot!
i think smithereens is one of the best by far, because of how much i and many of us can relate to the characters views, the concept is already much of a reality and i cant help but empathise with the main character as i strongly agree with him
Hang the dj being 24th is cray
So happy that someone agrees with me as entire history of you as the best, white Christmas also 2nd for me, what did surprise me about this list is hang the DJ and loch Henry being so far down but this is such a hard list to make because there are so many good ones I appreciate your efforts
Glad you agree with the top part! Yeah it's a difficult ranking as there are so many good episodes!
I loved Stiking Vipers cause it was so damn weird and had you feeling awkward the whole time. I would rank that episode top 3. Its funny how differently people like different episodes.
That's totally fair!
I hated striking vipers
White Christmas, USS Callister, and Striking Vipers are top 3 for me, and perhaps the only episodes I truly liked a lot.
The best for me is "Hated by the Nation", but I realy liked USS Calister, Nosedive, San Jupitero, Hang the Dj, White Bear..i love this series 🥰
Stringing Vipers has stuck with me for so long. I honestly think it’s brilliant.
Mazey day being last is the reason I liked lol 😂
Haha, oh no lol
I have only watched 5, but decided its one of my favourites. San Junipero, 15 million credits and Demon 79 are all fantastic.
1. White Christmas
2. White Bear
3. Shut up and Dance
4. Black Museum
5. USS Callister
I think some of the worst to me are The Waldo Moment, Metalhead, Rachel Jack and Ashley Too, and Mazey Day I think the rest of the episodes are pretty good. One of my dark horse favorites is Crocodile
I definitely agree with the ones you put towards the bottom! Seems we're on a similar page with that!
Shut up
And dance is corny i choose metal head over that boring episode
Season 6 was mixed for me , I thought Joan is awful and beyond the sea were excellent but demon 69,mazey day and Loch Henry were very poor
@@zekeedwards7904Demon 79 was my favourite episode, beyond the sea just annoyed me tbh. The acting was sublime but the story was just stupid imo, it took me out of the whole thing when he killed Cliffs family. Thats unrealistic as fuck.
@@lukecheshire7782 so a story about a demon manifesting as a 70s disco dude is not stupid lol, look man it's all subjective if everyone agreed on everything, life would be pretty dull, I enjoy the tech side and dystopia in black mirror, that's what got me hooked, not supernatural comedy
Idk if bandersnatch could be considered a BM episode but its one of my favorites. Back when I watched it I was really into interactive video games(Detroit become human, until dawn, life is strange etc) and bandersnatch surpassed all those without even being a game.
Detroit become human was a classic. Definitely need more games like that.
Big cap, detroit was better that bandersnatch
@@reizyka3044 nah you buggin' Detroit had potential but David cage fumbled the story
That was enormous fun to watch, so thanks.
I won't judge your order since it's all so subjective. I would like to make a few observations, however:
I completely agree with your Mazey Day observation. A terrific episode was let down by an odd horror angle that came out of nowhere.
Season six is substantially better than many would have us believe. I enjoyed all of them to varying degrees. With three episodes being outstanding (Joan and Mazey being the two "good, not great episodes).
As for gut punches...
Under the Sea and Loch Henry deliver in spades. Yet, no episode has shocked or upended everything I thought I knew, like Shut Up and Dance. Quite brilliant.
Thank god, I expected everybody but me to just rank Joan Is Awful so highly as I've seen many people express it as their favourite episode of season 6 which was insane to me, thank you for making me know I'm not insane.
Haha!
Really didn’t like it too. One of my least favourite BM episodes
It’s another example of cool concept, meh execution.
Though I feel like that more or less about potentially most of the episodes in Black Mirror.
Beyond the sea has stuck with me. Great episode
Episodes like Mazey day can be good... only if they're not bearing the "Black Mirror" title. Like if I want that kine of episodes I'll be watching Stranger Things or something...
I though that I was watching teen wolf instead of black mirror 😂
it was more twightlight zone or inside no 9 than black mirror
Definitely agree with the bottom half of the list, especially the bottom 5. Mazey day felt so... off. BM doesn't have to be technology focused but the felt too on the rails. Although I think the one with the nano bees should be down there too. Edit: The Entire History of You is my favourite story next to White Christmas. It's so powerful and re watchable. Its so raw, personal and real - this is something I think lacks in other episodes
Glad we agreed on a lot!
I liked the bee one a lot tbh
@@duffal0 I can see it’s merits - deffo got some good moments in there but I felt like it was too long
To be honest with you I disagree with you on striking vipers. I think the ending was actually a good ending. A loving couple making a compromise. I didn’t find it dark, on the contrary, I found it quite mature.
Totally fair!
striking vipers is so under appreciated
I personally loved Mazey Day. The werewolf twist was just out of left fuckin field. I didn’t know what to expect but I was still not expecting that.
Beyond the sea DEFINITELY one of their best episodes. The way they were making it seem, I thought 1 of 2 things was going to happen. Either that the wife was going to end up living Josh Hartnett more or that Josh was going to kill Aaron but then pass off as if he was him fooling his wife. But murdering his family??????? HOLY SHIT I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!
Y tf did she turn into a werewolf some shit ending
I did my ranking on Letterboxed yesterday. My current top 3 are "Shut up and Dance", "Loch Henry" and "Smithereens".
Three interesting choices! All quite similar from a tonal perspective. Definitely like the darker more “present day” episodes!
@@BrainPilot thanks man, yes I thought the exact same thing. Love your videos keep it up!
I love Annie Murphy to death. Her acting was sublime, but the directing and writing didn't bring enough of the introspection with the simulated reality twist at the end. We only saw it with Annie Murphy's acting when Level 1 Joan realized that the real Joan was already going to break the Quamputer anyway. They wasted an opportunity to portray an existential horror that would've been more reminiscent of peak Black Mirror episodes.
I’m still confused on this one. I thought the program was meant to simulate each person’s life then where did the multiple levels come in with real actors that don’t know they’re acting? I’m a little lost
@@sunflowerlove60part of the plot of the Joan is Awful show is that she finds out her life is being turned into a show (when she sees Salma Hayek) The idea is that the whole episode we watched is just the “Joan Is Awful” Streamberry show about the real life Joan
I really liked the last 2 you ranked lol i loved them both. Also the Miley Cyrus one was I think meant to sort of be a Hannah Montana episode put into Black Mirror.
Problem was that it lacked any bite so felt like a literal Hannah Montana episode rather than a parody.
I'm obsessed with beyond the sea. So good.
Interesting, I liked the concept but was underwhelmed.
@@TeChNoWC7 I liked it but forgot about it immediately haha
@@TeChNoWC7very overwhelming. I didn’t like the end at all. But it was pretty good.
there's a few episodes in season 6 where i felt like the emotional impact suffered for the sake of comedy or cheap shock value. however, all of the episodes were incredibly fun to watch and it was really entertaining to laugh about some of the absurd choices (for example the werewolf thing) even though it took away from the underlying theme. it definitely felt more flat and light-hearted though, maybe except for the loch henry episode.
I can’t take you seriously putting vipers at 25 😂😂😂
Should be even lower. An entire hour devoted to the “no homo” meme.
25/28! 😂 where would you put it?
@@BrainPilot Even though there are only 28 episodes it wouldn’t make my top 30 😂
I feel like the people who hated it just hate seeing gay shit. It’s a really good episode
Now I want to watch the whole show again
This whole season 6 felt more like twilight zone than your typical black mirror episodes except for ep 1 & 3
Can't rank them all but best from each season. The National Anthem. White Bear. Shut Up and Dance. USS Callister. Smithereens. Loch Henry. White Bear and Shut Up and Dance standing out the most. Always a gut punch. The Waldo Moment was probably the only episode that really disappointed me, rather dull and the ending had me rolling my eyes. Enjoyed all your breakdowns of this season. Hope we don't have to wait too long for the next one.
i really like your list - not that I agree with all of it - but I enjoyed hearing the reasons why you felt each each episode ranked the way they did.
It makes me want to revisit Beyond the Sea again because I just found the ending confounding. I didn’t understand why the big thing had to happen at the end and wondered how believable a scenario like that would actually be (assuming we’d have that technology)
Demon 79 was a huge surprise and I think would be quite high on my list, maybe even #1 which is so weird because it has nothing to do with tech.
But if I had to choose one at the top that did have to do with tech, I’d probably choose Nosedive. The ending to that makes me want to shout for joy. the actors are just so free despite being locked up.
Anyway, great list! thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot man! Yeah, totally agree about Nosedive. That's such a good episode!
Beyond the sea is wild asf
The best inclusion of the brand new episodes!
Yo the doctor story in black museum seriously freaked me out and that’s not easy to do
I really liked “beyond the sea” but I knew the ending halfway through the episode! I wasn’t shocked
I was shocked, I thought he'd kill the man and take over his family.
Yeah that's what I thought too!
I don’t watch Black Mirror for twists - there’s episodes people love without a shocking twist (Nosedive, San Junipero, USS Calistar) so while there was some predictability, I don’t think an episode should get deducted points for that.
Yeah, was extremely predictable unfortunately
Hell, I knew the moment his family got GOT! I definitely predicted that ending as well. Everybody says Loch Henry was predictable but Beyond The Sea was predictable for me.
san junipero is my fav. but over all this list is really on point :)
Glad you thought so!
List is very similar to mine except I have White Christmas at 1 and Entire History of You at 2. I put Black Museum a little higher and Be right back a little lower. Other than that our list would be almost identical.
That's awesome!
Crocodile at #22 is BULLSHIT
Oh no lol. Where would you place it?
Brooker has said in interviews that Liam was in fact the father of their child with Fi, not Jonas... making his emotional breakdown that ultimately pushed them both away from him all the more tragic
Striking Vipers is so thought provoking though
Oh definitely!
Great review bruv. Keep it up!
Thanks a lot!
My favorites are Crocodile, 15 million merits, white bear, metalhead, shut up and dance and white Christmas
Great choices!
My personal favorites are The Entire History of You, Be Right Back, Shut Up and Dance, USS Callister, Hang the DJ, and Beyond the Sea
In "Shut up and dance" while he is talking to the girl, in the background you can hear the song "Thats the way I like it"
I haven't watched every episode of Black Mirror, but already seen a great bunch so my ranks so far:
1st - Nosedive
2nd - Be Right Back
3rd - San Junipero
4th - The National Anthem
5th - Joan is Awful
6th - Loch Henry
7th - Demon 79
8th - Beyond the Sea
9th - Smithereens
10th - Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too
11th - Mazey Day
12th - The Waldo Moment
- In regards to Mazey Day, Charlie Brooker actually originally was going to label it as Red Mirror like Demon 79, so season 6 would've had 3 Black Mirror stories and 2 Red Mirror stories. However, given that the werewolf twist is the twist with the story and labeling Mazey Day a Red Mirror story might spoil it, Brooker decided to label it as a Black Mirror episode to hide it. That said, Mazey Day had a really great and interesting concept about paparazzis and celebrity privacy, but what made it a missed potential was the mere fact it's one of the shortest Black Mirror episodes, thus the story became too shallow and characters weren't really fleshed out and given dimension, with Bo and Mazey Day herself being the only really interesting characters in the episode, Hector could've been fleshed out (a shame since it's Danny Ramirez and he really love to be in Black Mirror). The werewolf twist is divisive, but it's honestly not the most problematic part of the episode, especially given the purpose of it.
- As for Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, I think you could've given Miley Cyrus credit for her performance as Ashley as she understood the character and most especially Ashley echoes Miley's own personal experience as a celebrity when she was working under Disney and being Hannah Montana. Miley Cyrus and Andrew Scott definitely had one of the best performances in Black Mirror season 5 and the show overall. It's a shame how season 5 turned out looking all 3 episodes as from what I've seen with 2 of the 3 episodes I've seen in season 5, it's clear that the depiction of technology was so shallow and came off too much of "tech is bad" and with Charlie Brooker recently voicing his frustration of people only perceiving Black Mirror as just a showing saying "tech is bad" when Black Mirror has always been about the human nature and society that the stories show our reflection as people and society, a black mirror. Because of season 5's reception and Brooker feeling frustrated with that perception of Black Mirror, it's clear and very understandable as to why season 6 turned out.
- You may need to rethink of Joan is Awful a bit more as this particular episode was WAY TOO TIMELY, it may be similar to how you felt about Smithereens. Joan is Awful is a very eerie echo of the writers and actors' strike going on in Hollywood and studios' willingness to use AI to exploit celebrities. The studios even blatantly are willing to drive the creatives homeless, like they're saying them to "go fuck themselves" like how Streamberry told Salma Hayek to "go fuck herself". Again, rather timely and heavily relevant now
I liked Crocodile. How she just went home with her chaos. I also liked The National Anthem; my Black Mirror screen saver. I loved Mazey Day's concept of weaponized cameras. Loch Henry went to another level. The entire History of You and Beyond the Sea, bored me to death, because it was so expected I mean common theme, but its amazing to see the kind of music that the world's hearts string to. Playtest,,,, Yeeez loved it. San Junipero made me feel.
Beyond the sea was crap boring and predictable..aaron paul and josh hartnett acting was good but still boring i couldnt wait for it too be over..history of you is just cringey..15 million credits..shut up and dance..loch henry..uss callister..black museum and san junipero are all better than the entire history of you
Crocidile is one of my favorites
I'd actually place San Junipero close to the very top, in part because I went in blind and was completely blown away by the twist. I'd also argue that the only watchable thing in Mazey Day was Zazie Beetz, and without her the episode would have been totally unwatchable.
Yeah i'd agree - Zazie Beetz was great!
I gotta say, your top choice is the one episode I've refused to ever watch again because of the pain I felt watching him go through that. Probably why it deserves the spot tbh
Yeah it is such a good episode
My top 5 episodes in no particular order are
Shut up and dance, play test, white bear, nosedive and beyond the sea
Solid choices!
metalhead being as high as it is, above episodes like crocodile and hang the dj, was all i needed to know about the list
In the episode, loch Henry, am I the only one who thought that she was going to write “forgive me” and was then stunned to read it as “for your film”?
Nah, i thought the exact same thing! Was so shocking wasn't it!
Quite surprised with the ranking of Beyond The Sea as I've seen many people call it the best or second best episode BY FAR, which I slightly agree with, but White Christmas and The Entire History Of You will always be my top two (personally I have WC over TEHOY atm)
Really? Everyone I've seen has been saying it's an alright episode that ranks about third in season 6. Personally I felt the acting was amazing and the slow feel of it was cool but the ending just felt really mediocre and really pulled the episode back.
white bear, shut up and dance & loch henry are my top 3 episodes!
They're three very good episodes
my favorite episode is SAN JUNIPERO , i will never forget it. it actually made me cry :(
It is a great episode with a fantastic ending!
Thank you for saving my time
I literally forgot the entirety of Crocodile even though I've watched it.
It’s a gooden!
The UK based episodes out do the US episodes except for a couple. Also When Netflix got involved seems things changed. If you know what I mean.
This is inspiring me to watch The Waldo Moment again, now that I feel like North America is living it.
San Juniperos concept reminds me of the Amazon Original Series Upload
White Christmas is my personal favourite
While I wouldn’t have ordered it quite like this, I love that we appreciate the same thing about Black Mirror; the way technology can impact society in negative ways. That’s why I kind of didn’t love this new season. It felt a little weird imo AI and the pandemic should have been easy topics to tackle. Idk what that wolf shit was and tbh I didn’t like Demon 79 either lol
Anyway, good list!
Glad you agree on the same appreciation!
i thought demon 79 was good, and while it wasn't black mirror really, the show was conscious about that and called it a "red mirror" episode. but mazey day SUCKS
My current top 3 episodes are "Nosedive," "Shut Up and Dance," and "Metalhead."
Three great episodes!
Finally someone mentions Metalhead! It had me feeling a mix of sheer terror and infinite hopelessness. It was easy one of my favourites ever.
Please make a segment search bar for the video, it was good thank you
Noted!
Fifteenth Million Merits is mos def top 5 for me too. This one hit different. Considering technologies impact, how addictive it can be and influential, the monetary dependency, the impact on self-esteem & worth, social influence, & stifled, and exploitive potential. 10 out of 10. Might even be my #1
3 out of 4 people have White Bear, San Junipero, Fifteen Million Merits, Shut Up and Dance, and Entire History of You as their top 5 (not in that order), some may substitute White Christmas and Nosedive in there, but I digress.
@@JNB0723 To be fair they are some of the best episodes lol. Personally I wouldn't put white bear, san junipero, or nosedive in my top 5 with the entire history of you being an episode I wasn't the hugest fan of.
@@plugshirt1762 yeah, there are always some exceptions. I'm not saying everyone has those.
Great review!
Thanks a lot!
For once I disagree with most of your rankings but it made me realize that it depends on who you are as a person which rankings you would have … great video!
Haha, that's fair! And yeah, that's the true beauty of the show!
@@BrainPilot also…thank you for your breakdowns!!! I look forward to them after watching some of my favorite shows 🩵
White Christmas is my favorite.
It's such a good one! Good choice!
Totally agree with you about the first place
Woop! That's good
1.Nose Dive
2.San Jun
3.History of you
4.Shut up and Dance
5.Striking Vipers
6. Playtest
7. White Bear
8. Black museum
Solid rating! Interesting that striking vipers is there!
For me white Christmas is bar far the best episode, and one of the best things I've ever seen on TV
That's totally fair - it is such a good episode!
Hang the DJ is one of the best episodes I. The show wdym??
I really liked loch henry. i know some people like that true crime stuff, but as someone (and mean this not to be cringe or like "that" person yk) who was rlly bothered by stuff in Dahmer, i was rlly hoping an episode would address that stuff about true crime TT
Also Edit: unpopular opinion, but i actually kinda liked Mazey day 😅 i know the reason why people didnt like it but i was thoroughly entertained lmao
Bold statement in being on the side of Mazey Day lol. I'm joking, that's what's great about the show - everyone can enjoy the different episodes!
white Christmas was the craziest shit I ever seen
That was #1 in my book
It's such a good episode isn't it! The fact it was originally billed as a "Christmas special" as well. Imagine putting it on during xmas day 💀
Welp, can't argue about taste, but saying beyond the sea was more enjoyable than Hated in the Nation, wow...Reaaaaaally can't see that. IMHO Hated in the Nation is extremely underrated. One of the best BM episodes for me, one of the few that had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Beyond the Sea? Meh. It was nice to see Aaron Paul, but 1h20 was waaaay to much for that story.
Also love Hang the DJ. Such a wholesome episode.
Lastly, IDK why people like the Entire History of You so much. I couldn't care less about the main character and his obsession with rewatching everything everytime and I found really funny when he discovered his wife cheating through this. It felt earned. Dude was so paranoid that finally the paranoia "paid" him in someway. But there was no one to cheer for, almost everyone was idiot and dumb. Thinking about the purpose of the episode I found Nosedive way more entertaining while conveying a really similar message.
I used to have a list before S6 but I lost it so... I'll just say that for me the TOP episodes in no particular order are:
San Junipero
Nosedive
Shut Up and Dance
White Bear
15 Million Merits
and Bandersnatch.
White Christmas and Be Right Back are great too.
But most of them are quite good. Except the Miley Cyrus one.
My Top 10:
1. USS Callister
2. Black Museum
3. Crocodile
4. White Bear
5. Loch Henry
6. Demon 79
7. Striking Vipers
8. Hated in the Nation
9. Joan is awful
10. White Christmas
…
28. Mazey Day 😂
LOOL, gotta get Mazey Day in there!
I like Striking Vipers as well, it doesn't get the love it deserves. I agree that Mazey Day is at the bottom.
Hated in the nation was one of personal favorites
That’s fair enough, it is a good episode, I just found the pacing to be so slow!