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While the show has always been designed to tap into our darkest paranoias about technology and modern life with the express purpose of making us squirm, Black Mirror season 4 takes this to a whole new level. In an era where trying to watch as many episodes as possible, all at once, has become something of a habit, this run of Black Mirror feels like anti-binge TV. Members of the GR team each picked out an episode that meant something to them personally, and reviewed it. So what you have below is an anthology review, neatly reflecting pun intended the way Black Mirror is presented.

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Matt used to help single men seduce women. His clients had optical implants, that allowed him to see through their eyes and give them advice in real-time using the “Eye-Link” technology. His main profession, however, was subjugating artificial copies of clients’ consciousness, stored into bean-sized chips called “cookies”, into docile personal assistants in charge of running smart houses.

Joe reveals that after a domestic squabble, his pregnant girlfriend Beth “blocked” him, using a technology that turned them into incomprehensible pixelated blurs to each other. The block lasted for years, preventing him from talking to Beth or the child, until Beth died in an accident. Joe found the child in Beth’s father’s cabin, but the man told him that the little girl was not his daughter.