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It is telling stories about the possibilities of technology and the unexpected ways tech and humanity intersect.
It sets up ideas and then further complicates them as each episode rolls along.
This is not to say theyre not well-crafted episodes of television, beautifully made and filled with impressive acting.
The problem with these episodes is not in their production or their performances.
The concern is legitimate, but surely the more interesting story is about the massive, people-gobbling lizard?
Miley Cyrus cover of a Nine Inch Nails song.
They end up kissing rather than fighting.
At its most thoughtful and merciless, earlierBlack Mirrorepisodes might have treated this declaration with a sneer.
A powerful, wildly privileged mogul can do nothing to stop the thing he has created?
Is that actually true?
And even if itistrue, should his plight earn our empathy?
In Smithereens, though, those questions remain unanswered.
More troublingly, they remain largely unasked.
Billy isnt given a pass, but the episode doesnt play up his delusion or culpability, either.
Season five ofBlack Mirroris underwhelming, but that doesnt mean the show has necessarily lost its keen edge.
