Black Mirror

Black Mirror - episode 3 review

Black Mirror offered a gut punch of a final instalment, presenting an unsettling world where memories are not to be cherished but used as weapons.

Review of Black Mirror - 'The Entire History of You'

The last segment of this satirical trio of fables played with the notion of hindsight and questioned whether it really is a wonderful thing.

Black Mirror episode 3 review

The Black Mirror series concludes with a disturbing drama about memories and infidelity. Here's Ryan's review of "The Entire History Of You"...

Black Mirror - "The Entire History of You"

The final part of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror anthology comes instead from the mind of Jesse Armstrong, one half of the writing partnership behind comedies Peep Show and Fresh Meat. This marks a change of style for Armstrong, as there wasn't much to smile about in "The Entire History Of You" (well, beyond the one cereal joke).

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Imagine if memories weren't foggy, unreliable things. Imagine if your every moment was logged by a little device implanted behind your ear and wired into your brain. Imagine if you could then view each day, each scene of your life at will and pore over it to the point of obsession. Jesse Armstrong has imagined just that in loving detail for the third of Channel 4's techno-fables.

A sick and sinuous story unfolds of a young lawyer who has an unsatisfactory appraisal meeting, then goes to a dinner where his wife is meeting old friends. Something in her body language bothers him and as he examines and re-examines it, he stirs up a storm of jealousy that can't end well.

Black Mirror: 'The Entire History of You', review

Black Mirror has reminded us that the power lies with ourselves, every time we fire up our computers or switch on our smartphones.

I'm trying very hard to admire Charlie Brooker's Channel 4 series Black Mirror. Because I ­gather it's against the luvvie law not to. But, Christ, if last week's snail-paced instalment was any slower it would have been a photograph. Schoolboy satire. With a sledgehammer. ­Sophisticated it ain't.

Black Mirror - The Entire History Of You

This episode succeeded because, though the surgery element seems far-fetched, we're actually worryingly close to this kind of technocratic innovation.

Looking for a programme that isn't slathered in festive sentimentality? There's certainly not a sliver of tinsel in sight here. Written by Peep Show's Jesse Armstrong, it's the last in a trio of dark satires on our media-obsessed age. Toby Kebbell and Jodie Whittaker are among the actors trapped in a world where people can opt for a memory implant that records, and stores, all they do, see and hear. But total recall has its downsides.