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Black Mirror - Season 5 Episode 01: Striking Vipers
The fifth season of the energizing and science fiction TV series Black Mirror, one of the Top Rated TV series that has made an incredible accomplishment among its past seasons. The series tells about the cutting edge innovation, its negative side and how it might be a wellspring of threat that can devastate our lives.
Owen Harris, Carl Tibbetts, Otto Bathurst, Euros Lyn, Brian Welsh, Bryn Higgins, James Hawes, Dan Trachtenberg, Jakob Verbruggen, James Watkins, Joe Wright, Jodie Foster, Toby Haynes, John Hillcoat, Colm McCarthy, David Slade, Timothy Van Patten
"Smithereens" gets in a few interesting jabs, but Charlie Brooker's script is hampered by how thin the plot is, how long it takes for the action to get going, and how simplistic the big mystery turns out to be.
If this is, at heart, a story of a man railing against his own perceived lack of agency, it seems ironic that the scriptwriters should reduce him to such a cipher also.
It's too bad that wasn't what the episode was ultimately about. Though "Smithereens" finishes weakly, the road there is pretty good, but unlike road trip clichés, Black Mirror is more about the destination than the journey.
Black Mirror has had a lot of brilliant episodes, but few have had this level of literary merit, allowing for all sorts of analysis for those willing to plumb its depths.
Scott, superb here, can deliver all of that with just a look. It's his astonishing control and range that elevated a too-tidy plot into something much messier and more profound.