Fear of technology. That is what this series seem to represent. How we are all enslaved by science and technology, which will ultimately doom us all. Black mirror is basically fearmongering, especially about social media. Almost every single episode's underlying theme is how facebook and twitter is this vile cesspool that only brings out the absolute worst in people and only spawns trolls, bullies and terrorists, a system that makes us all soulless total psychopaths reveling in mass murder and human suffering.

Black Mirror seems to be made by old people. The kind, who only have a cursory understanding of modern technology, probably from the news and conspiracy nut blogs, and they envision this formless evil beast that will inevitably destroy humanity. We all fear what we don't understand, and the creators of this series are just bringing this concept to the extreme. You can see it in every episode: social media is evil tyranny, modern medical and scientific advances are just waiting to kill us all, and where one single person is enough to hack some automated system and go on a killing spree, while the authorities are just fumbling about completely powerless.

Aside from one single episode, Season 3's "San Junipero", the entirety of Black mirror is totally ridiculous, pandering fearmongering, that exploits people's lack of knowledge about technology and sends a completely wrong message. This sort of luddite thinking and behavior is what lead to the Dark Ages...

Having said all that, Black Mirror is a surprisingly well put- together series. The production value is very high, and for a sci-fi TV series, the CGI is remarkably good. The stories (discounting the subject matter) are well written and well acted. Some of the episodes tend to be sluggish and boring in places, but I chalk that up to the creators, who seem to be from the old-school sci-fi scene with strong hints of Stanislaw Lem and Phillip K. Dick influences.

All in all, Black Mirror is very well made sci-fi series, that is just a bit too on the nose about it's hatred for modern technology and especially social media. It's definitely worth a watch if you can distance yourself from the ridiculous fearmongering.