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To say that the latest rate of Black mirror Broke the internet would be a no-brainer. When the show’s first season fell in 2011, it changed forever the landscape with sci-fi history tale on the small screen, if not the silver screen, and extends endlessly the boundaries of what cinema can do and what its lovers can expect.

So when Black mirror Season 7 fell on Netflix on April 10, it didn’t just break the Internet -it dissected it, uploaded its consciousness and sold it back to us as a subscription bundle. And in an exquisite genre-pulling turn, it’s hard to say whether this new season is sci-fi or horror, because either seems to be too reductionist to what the six episodes actually offer: an eerie feeling that remains from beginning to end, never grows or subsides, never teeming away. Creator Charlie Brooker promised a return to the darker, more disturbing roots of the show, and he delivered.

Too real for US residents

Like any other set of episodes, this recent season stays with his audience because it never wanders too far away from what American residents (read: Anyone who is not Charlie Brooker, Charlie Kaufman or David Lynch) can perceive to be true at some point in our existence.

Black mirror Coddles our humble capacity for suspension of disbelief by keeping questions in the real world in the heart of every story: debates about rogue technology, environmental impairment, fertility, bullying in high school, invention and fantasy of God’s messenger, ideas of death and infinity, along with everyday irritation, such as ail human existence lost a lot (I pronounce very) important USBS, OSB.

A wide range of devices work in tact during the six episodes that weave the thick, suffocating substance of strangeness that encloses Black Mirror’s Viewer. Of them are some as obvious as the references to the dark web in Ordinary peopleThrough which the ever-sprouted blue collar Mike tries to earn some extra cash to give her beloved wife’s Rivermind subscription, which keeps her alive. If it means putting a mousetrap loose on the tongue or drinking your own urine in a dingy space to a sick digital audience, then be. The horror one feels to see someone pulling a perfectly good tooth of pure power on the screen is often inexplicably more complicated than seeing a complete murder, perhaps because the former seems so much closer to us, and it is this phenomenon that this section of the episode makes money. Add to the mixture completely credible characters that we have all personally witnessed: overworked and desperate workers trying to get ends up meeting, high school computer geeks that don’t become friend with anyone (or the other way), furious ‘lovely guys’ and the like, and you’ve got yourself the cleaning feeling that you will run into one of these characters soon.

Here and there, very obviously unpleasant things are nonchalant for just a blip in Black mirror universe. Blue spit and blue blood in USS Callister Top this chart with a mile, although of course one cannot forget to frown on the random, there is a thick Scottish accent on a planet that you have just put your eyes on. And while Brooker appears short and in fact, Brooker is not a single moment of plot development to fluff, then in case of plot development. USS CallisterThe normality of blue bodily fluids causes the discovery of junk elements of the game that bleed red (great, great surprise.)

We overreact?

And then there are things Brooker puts on screen so subliminally that the feeling of turmoil catches you before you can lay down reason. There are the faces that change so fast in real time, it is difficult to see if it is incredible acting or a body double. ONE

At the end of USS CalistsWhen Robert finally falls into his penultimate insanity after 500 years of hard work as an infinite god, his face goes from actual-a-nice guy to a non-so-nice guy so fast, one has to blink twice to know that the throbbing temp.

There is also something deeply off by the way people stare in Black mirror Season 7, a glance that creates a small cut in a sore part of your skin, search under it and seam the wound again. That’s too long, too unbrinking, too knowledgeable gaze drilling into your spine. IN Ordinary peopleAmanda stare blankly as ads that hijack her eyeballs, no matter how steaming the situation; in Bête NoireVerity’s Coy-side eyes are almost Serpentine in their sluggish. The girl’s eyes go from naive and tear to hard as stone as if it is not a problem.

But then you learned so much if you had lived a million lives, one of them as the empress of the universe. Eulogy rams it up with a daughter’s glassy eye as her mother’s affair is dissected across the table, and it is the switch that is difficult to swallow: sympathetic eyes, investigating eyes, irritated eyes in a short time. And then there is Robert in USS Callister – Smiling, staring and saying nothing – makes you feel like you’re the program error. Forget Stanley -Stirring; Every look in black mirror is a unique error in the human code.

Brooker does not turn his magic in a vacuum. He is accompanied by equally competent and creative instructors who create worlds element for element so that nothing seems to be misplaced. In Eulogy, the restaurant’s soft lighting becomes harsh as emotional tension and color become confrontation. During the season, palettes change with mood: sterile white, shady blues, garish neons. Pair it with a nervous sound design – humming, static, silence stretched for thin, strong sounds that will never leave our minds (rest in peace) – and the atmosphere makes the storytelling before characters even speak.

Mind-angiving madness

Black mirror have done this before with BANDERNATCH (and look forward to doing it again with Bandstruck) But this time Brooker has taken it too far (or has he?) Different viewers and businesses have caught the many Easter eggs spread through the six episodes where the most notable references to references to Juniper. On top of that, viewers report they see different versions of Bête Noire On their screens and for an episode that uses the Mandela effect to an unhealthy level, it is as creepy as it becomes. Whether this is gossip, evil or the truth that requires this kind of interactive viewing to transform the viewer into a participant who blurs boundaries between fiction and reality. It’s disorienting – as the show knows you. This unpredictability, the feeling of being monitored, adds a cool layer to the already creepy experience.

In short, looking at Black mirror Season 7 falls into a very stylish, very sparkling existential spiral with WiFi. It’s fun, creepy and scary in equal measures, with just enough creepy polishing to make you question whether the strange staring your colleague gave you today was … Normal. Brooker has coded the show again and the result is a season that asks, “What if technique goes too far?” and “What if you already have?” Whether you binged all six episodes in a blackout afternoon or still collect the multiple versions of Bête NoireOne thing is ready: Black mirror seeing you too.

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