hey everyone and welcome back to my channel my name is Mary and today I'm going to be doing
my top 10 favorite black mirror episodes now if you don't already know black mirror is a
dystopian sci-fi anthology series on Netflix but it wasn't always on Netflix for two seasons it
was on channel 4 and when it shifted onto Netflix season 3 onwards you can really tell because the
production quality dramatically improves and you'll find that a lot of my favorite episodes
are actually from season 3 and 4 I unfortunately didn't react to any of black Mara because I was
mainly watching it on my small iPhone on flicks bus trips around Europe and that's where I really
discovered it and really fell in love with the show so I'm a little bit late to the bandwagon
because that was about six or seven months ago but in saying that everything is fresh in my
brain so if you haven't watched black mirror or if you haven't watched black mirror in a while
this might be a nice little refresher for you or it could be very educational for you either
way keep on watching if you want to know my top favorite black mirror episodes so I'm gonna start
off with my 10th favorite episode and this one is called shut up and dance it's from season 3
episode 3 weeks after watching this episode I was disturbed I was just perpetually in a dis
disturbed state of mind and it disturbed me for a few reasons number one being it is completely
possible for a hacker in today's age to hack into your computer and then extort you for all of your
private content on your computer and number two I did not see what was coming I remember feeling
really frustrated because I felt that the black male just will never end it just kept going and
going and for me it was a little bit repetitive in that way but the acting was phenomenal Alex
Walters performance our main character amazing his co-star which some of you may know from Game of
Thrones Jerome Flynn also amazing he's also being blackmailed by this hacker online it's definitely
one to watch prepare yourselves nosedive season 3 episode 1 this episode was completely identical to
season 5 episode 8 of community and it actually came out two years before black mirrors nosedive
black mirrors take on it was obviously the sci-fi version whereas community's version of the now
Mao beans app just affected Greendale Community College students what did you think of the way
that Dean introduced us I thought he did great that's why I'm giving him five meowmeowbeenz I
think why that would be a popular theme is because we are driven by numbers and I really feel for the
protagonist lacy who was played by Bryce Dallas Howard because she really tries to be perfect
all the time and I think at least some of us can relate to that but it does get mentally exhausting
at times you always want to see her succeed but she just takes it too far and then eventually
you're just like okay girl you just really need to quit with most of Black Mirror episodes this one
had a great message and it takes you in a great character development journey at number eight
we have be right back at the season 2 episode one this is about a lady whose boyfriend sadly passes
away in a car crash and she discovers she can actually reproduce a humanoid version of him using
his data from all of his social media to replicate his personality I'm pretty sure they used his DNA
somehow as well to create this humanoid version of him the concept was really cool to me because
I mean this particular episode was made in 2013 I believe this version of a humanoid robot was
obviously very very advanced because we don't know when this episode was actually set in in
the future but it made me think of Sophia the actual humanoid robot who was developed in Hong
Kong in 2016 even though she looks and she speaks very intelligently you can very much distinctly
tell she is a robot but this particular robot in this episode was so human-like you could not tell
that he was well I mean you could tell a little bit but you for the most part you couldn't tell
that he was a robot it was very interesting to see a glimpse into how far humanoid robots can really
go oh it's very very sad it made me cry I got goose bumps Tinley throughout the entire episode
so prepare yourself for that okay so crock it off season 4 episode 3 this is at number 7 because I
hated Mia our main character I felt like she could have handled everything a lot better and I'm sure
anyone who's seen this episode would agree with me she just went from 0 to 100 really really fast but
I still enjoyed it and any time I think of black Mara that episode really sticks out for me because
I did love the concept of the Ricola device and device to see into your memories and it's a little
bit similar to an episode in season 2 called the entire history of youth so if you've already seen
that and you loved it you probably loved this episode - Sonia and her boyfriend 15 years ago
are involved in a hit and run and then 15 years later her ex-boyfriend comes back and he wants
to confess and yeah the story really escalates from that point on but anyways this episode is
dark twisted okay at number 6 we have the season 2 special the Christmas special white Christmas
now this is a very famous episode and I think anytime someone says black Mara this is another
episode that comes to mind I actually watched the beginning of this episode many many years
ago when my brother had it on TV and I was kind of not really paying attention to and I didn't
even watch the complete episode so it was really nice to come back when I'm a lot more invested
and willing to pay attention to this stories that these two men in this abandoned little
cottage share with one another during a blizzard we don't know how these two men know each other
we don't know why Rafe spall who plays Joe is so withdrawn because jon Hamm's character matt is
the storyteller for the first 40 minutes of this episode he shares two of his own stories and they
don't particularly shine him in the brightest light but it does help Joe open up a little
bit and share a story of his own it's a brilliant episode but there are a lot of things going on so
pay very close attention because the two stories that match this at the beginning really illustrate
the world that these two men live in and they do pay off at the very end when everything starts to
come full circle so at number 5 we have USS Callister season 4 episode 1 the production
quality of this episode is magnificent it's about a co-founder of the company's name's Robert Dailey
played by Jesse Plemons who has walked all over by his business partner and all of his colleagues but
when he comes back from work he gets to play act being a macho captain of a starship in a Star Trek
game that he created using his programmatic gaming skills and the DNA of his colleagues whilst they
weren't looking in the real world he's psychotic who takes all of his bottled up anger in the real
world and takes it out on his cloned colleagues in this game so yes it's a sci-fi but it's also
about overthrowing a dictatorship so it's quite political as well a lot of the times when you're
watching it you're like that work won't that work and for me always being kept on edge is just what
made the episode so thrilling and I loved the ending ok number 4 we have play test season 3
episode 1 my test was another episode that really disturbed me for a very very very long time after
watching it and if you guys have seen my traveling videos you would know that I can relate to the
very misfortunate backpacker I related to him trying to make extra cash because his card got
skimmed and he didn't have any cash on him I related to the fact that he didn't want to tell
his parents or his mom what was really going on during his travels so watching this entire episode
unfold I was completely on the edge of my seat and I was travelling at the time watching it - it's
one of those episodes where you just don't know what's going on and it's not to say that
it's hard to understand it's just that there's multiple twists throughout the entire episode our
protagonist Cooper who is played by Wyatt Russell agrees to hook himself onto a machine which
actually uses his own memories to simulate his worst fears I don't know why anyone would do that
but Cooper does it was literally like watching a horror movie and I never watch horror movies
also I didn't know what I was getting myself into but I did love this episode so coming from me that
says a lot at number 3 we have season 4 episode 6 black Museum the format of this episode is similar
to white Christmas in the storytelling format Douglass Hodge plays Rolo Haynes the owner of
this abandoned roadside museum that holds little memorabilia from techno crimes that he committed
whilst he was working in med tech immediately I thought to myself why is this museum called black
Museum weird name but then you know after the first story that Rolo shares I thought okay maybe
it's because all of these memorabilia have really dark stories attached to them by the second story
I realized this guy's definitely twisted he'll do anything to make his subjects agree to be a part
of his experiments by the third story I was like okay this guy is a racist I would love to see more
storytelling episodes in the black marrow and I loved how everything started to make sense in the
last 10 minutes of that so last ten minutes was pure gold super justified love the ending totally
watch okay let me just go on the record to say that I love when Black Mirror makes her sci-fi
with romance because I've got to say those two have got to be my favorite genre and now that I've
said that you can probably guess what my top two favorite episodes are going to be at number two we
have hand the DJ season 4 episode 4 this episode was a take on dating apps except this particular
dating app is called the system and it matches you with people that you're not really going to end up
with forever and it guarantees a 99.9 percent accuracy for finding your one true match which
is more than tinder and bubble can really say as viewers we're all worrying for Frank and Amy to
just be together but it seems like everything is coming in between these two and it's really
heartbreaking to watch but love the ending don't want to spoil anything but watch this episode it
is beautiful now for my favorite episode drumroll we have San Junipero season 3 episode 4 I cannot
begin to tell you how much I love this episode and I love the idea of a place like San Junipero
Kelly is this extrovert very comfortable with her sexuality very open and just wild and your kisses
really timid introverted girl who hasn't come out and she's just very new to everything she's
also new to San Junipero it seems to be set in the 80s which I love because I love the 80s but
it doesn't really make sense for Black Mirror because all of Black Mirror episodes are set
in a futuristic timeline that is unknown really but everyone in this episode keeps saying that
they only have till 12 and they all till midnight so immediately we know that this timeline is not
linear and also once Kelly starts hiding from your key in different timelines and I love that about
black Mara I love that nothing is what it really seems it's utopic it'll give you goosebumps it'll
make you cry over in a good way it is just it is an amazing episode and anyone who hasn't watched
Black Mirror ever start with this episode because it will set you up for high expectations and
that's what you can expect from Black Mirror so yeah those were my top 10 favorite Black
Mirror episodes let me know in the comments what are your top 10 favorite episodes or if you've
never watched Black Mirror before let me know what episode you want to watch from this list give this
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