Very bad season. Plots are pretty weak. The darkness, the dystopia, the incisiveness on new technologies misuses, everything that made Black Mirror what it was is 100% gone. It's barely futuristic,and the issues are the wrong ones, like they lost what they were trying to say in the middle or just didn't think it through.
They were some very BM subjects that could have been talked about in these episodes : They could have lost their identity in the virtual space in the first one. The ever spying and omnipotence on your life from data collected by social networks in the second. The constant spying of in-home assistant, or the impact of these techs on young minds in the third. But they were totally ignored.
Kinda like if somebody was given a starting idea for a BM episode without knowing what the show is (or used to be) about and then did it in a totally different style.
Acting is actually very good in general, so it's not a pain to watch it, just a bore, but still.
Black Mirror went from sick, dystopian futures to... VR romance, social media and a kid's comedy with Miley Cyrus.
I see why shows get worse over time, but I can't wrap my head around the fact that Charlie Brooker is responsible for both the masterpieces that this show has produced and the big question mark that is this fifth season.
