First off I'll admit I only watched five episodes of Black Mirror. The oft used claim for this series is that it's a "contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone ". I've watched The Twilight Zone and it's far superior to Black Mirror. Obviously Black Mirror had better affects. After all it had the benefit of 60 years worth of technology improvements but the producers and writers didn't take advantage of it. In fact they squandered it.

The stories are incredibly morbid, banal and pretentious. The few episodes I watched were difficult to watch to the end. There's nothing uplifting here.

The characters are difficult to empathise with because they come across as total fools. The series main premise seems to be that we're doomed to becoming complete idiots in the near future due to technology. I don't believe that. In fact I believe in the exact opposite.