Black Mirror is one of Netflix's most iconic series. Anticipation, fear, angst and dark avant-gardism... All the elements are there to please viewers. Here is a ranking of the scariest episodes.
In 2011, the phenomenon Black Mirror came out. . A small series of only three episodes but which were enough to ink the phenomenon in the minds of viewers. Casting, subject, theme, staging… Each episode is different from the next. Only the supposed reality, that of our world which has a unique relationship to technology, is common. Altogether, thanks to the recovery of Netflix , there are 5 seasons and soon a sixth that you shouldn't miss .
Today we bring you 5 particularly distressing episodes.
The first of the series and surely the most striking:The National Anthem . The pitch is simple but terribly frightening. After the Princess Royal is kidnapped, the Prime Minister must have filmed sex with a pig for her to survive. The episode will show the sudden change of opinion of the population in the face of this horrible dilemma. A particularly extreme concept that will automatically guarantee the success of the series.
A perpetual tension, painful secrets revealed at the end of the episode, characters led by hackers... Here is the explosive and deranged cocktail of the episode Shut Up and Dance of season three. Difficult to watch from start to finish, a young teenager is threatened by hackers with having his private life revealed on the internet and will have to carry out the ever darker orders of the thugs to try to escape them.
A woman wakes up in a room of a house that she absolutely does not know. She has lost her memory and wanders in a neighborhood where everyone is watching her. Except that the episode accelerates when she is chased by a hooded man armed with a gun. To the cheers of the inhabitants, she learns that they are being manipulated because of their telephones and that she must destroy a Whitebear relay. , but she will be captured. The end of the episode will have surprised more than one.
Mysterious deaths of personalities who have recently experienced badbuzz on social networks alert the police who begin to investigate what will turn out to be a sordid affair mixing personal delirium and new technologies. After investigation, law enforcement understands that the weapon used to kill these people is a bee drone that can infiltrate their brains. Creepy, isn't it?
Direct reference to Joel Schumacher's film with Michael Douglas, Free Fall is a particularly creepy episode. Not by its achievement or its horror, but by the message it conveys. The fact that every individual has a rating that they must constantly increase to access the best services and be seen well.
The main character is a woman who tries to get rid of her 4.2 to obtain a score closer to 5 but will not succeed. A true visual allegory of Murphy's Law which indicates that a misfortune never comes alone, Free Fall remains one of the most loved episodes by fans.
