Black Mirror has taken the technology-savvy world by a storm by introducing life-threatening horrors that too advanced a technology can pose on human life. It explores the world of simulations and virtual realities, ratings, and social media to paint a picture of just how much humanity is affected by the internet on a daily basis. Here’s a detailed index of the dystopian science fiction anthology, Black Mirror, to help you get yourself started with this amazing series!

Index of Black Mirror

Index of Season 1: The Power of Social Media

index of black mirror season 1

Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. The National Anthem Check here
2.Fifteen Million Merits Check here
3.The Entire History of You Check here

The Princess of the British Royal family gets kidnapped, and only one condition can grant her freedom from the clutches of the kidnapper. He demands the country’s Prime Minister, Michael Callow to have physical intercourse with a pig on national television. 

Even though the minister refuses at first, public shunning and rebukes compel him into doing so – when his wife asks him to give in to it too. In a desperate attempt to satisfy the public and rebuild his lost image, he does so in national television – much to people’s surprise. 

But the twist lies in the fact that the Princess was already released thirty minutes prior to the fiasco. The kidnapper who staged this up then hangs himself, as all he wanted to do was prove to people just how much social media tends to affect our lives. 

Few years down the line Callow’s image is sweet, but the relationship with his wife is sour.

Bing stays in an enclosed automated space, as a member of a special society who have to ride power-generating stationary bikes so as to earn credits. These credits in turn can be used to buy means to keep their livelihood going. 

One day, he listens to Abi sing and falls in love with her, promising her fifteen thousand merits so that she can enter herself into a talent show. Even though Abi does that and aces it, the judges suggest that she’s better suited for pornography, an offer she hesitantly accepts. 

Bing, frustrated, enters himself to the same show and threatens the judges to commit suicide due to the dysfunctional system. The judges offer him his own weekly talk show where he has to rant about the system, and he accepts it. 

A grain can be used to record everything one sees and hear. But things take a quick turn when Lion finds out that his wife might be involved with a man she was a former lover of. 

A series of events take place that compels him to play the memories of the grain, where he realizes that their child might not be ‘their’s’ as such. 

Upon further investigation, thanks to the grain, they realize that it was indeed the truth. The season ends with him going into the washroom and slicing out the grain from behind his ear with a razor. 

Index of Season 2: AI Can Never Replace Humans

index of black mirror season 2

Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. Be Right Back Check here
2.White Bear Check here
3.The Waldo Moment Check here
4.White Christmas Check here

The pilot episode shows how a woman called Martha was in love with Ash, who loved to scour social media until he died in an accident one fine day. When Martha realizes she is pregnant, she gets an artificial intelligence made based on Ash’s social media posts and activities to completely mimic him. 

As days pass by, she starts to realize that the very minute details that made Ash who he was were not at all visible in the AI. One day, she takes it to a cliff and asks it to jump off – to which the artificial AI happily agrees, frustrating Martha even more as the real Ash would have never done so. 

The artificial AI starts to beg for his life, resulting in him being locked up in the attic whom Martha’s daughter visits from time to time. 

In the second part, a woman wakes up in a house with amnesia, with people recording her but not able to hear her speak. When they start firing, she starts running for her life and meets Jen on the way, who also happens to be on her way away from the “hunters”. 

Apparently, they have to destroy a transmitter which makes the people non-responsive to their actions. When they were about two, two more shotguns come in and pull the trigger – revealing only confetti. 

The woman is told that she is Victoria, and she is sentenced to psychological torture every day for killing a young girl. She gets taken back to the house she woke up, and her memory gets wiped clean.

The third and final part of the season explores the vulgar-speech speaking robot Waldo, and he ends up being a people’s person; so much so that they start to vote for him to become the President, much to the owner’s disinterest. 

Certain situations pan out in a weird way that makes the owner of the robot end up in poverty and prison, with the robot becoming famous.

Index of Season 3: Ratings Causing Riots 

index of black mirror season 3

Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. Nosedive Check here
2.Playtest Check here
3.Shut Up and Dance Check here
4.San Junipero Check here
5.Men Against Fire Check here
6.Hated in the Nation Check here

The first part of the season goes on about a woman named Lacie. Living in a society where social media app ratings based on personal conversations decide the overall rating of a man, Lacie tries to garner some appreciation from the big guns to soar her rating from 4.2 to 4.5. Solely so that she can afford a luxury apartment. 

But when a few missteps put her friend’s wedding in jeopardy, her rating starts to fall – causing her to barge into their celebratory dinner and giving out a speech. As the speech is perceived by the people at the wedding negatively, they give her further lower ratings, making her almost-about-achieve dream of affording a luxury home impossible. 

She then gets dragged and locked up into a cell, where she gets into an argument with her inmate who confesses how they have been done with the rating system long ago. 

The second part explores the possible dangers of augmented reality when a device of that sort is connected to Cooper’s brain, to take him through things that scare him – starting with being left alone in the mansion. 

The experiences get too traumatic for him, and he returns home to his mother – only to find out that she does not recognize him, and that she too, like his father has Alzheimer’s. Cooper’s terrifying experiences due to the device cross limits, resulting in his death by the end of the episode. 

The third part of the series deals with sextortion emails, while the fourth deals with a virtual world of San Junipero where a dead man’s consciousness can be uploaded to live forever. 

Two women fall in love and tie the knot in San Junipero, after they in their real lives fail to battle life and its circumstances to be willing to live it anymore.

The last part of the series deals with mutated humans and robotic bees known as ADI’s, and the threats that pan out with time due to the same. 

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Index of Season 4: Illicit Technologies

index of black mirror season 4

Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. USS Callister Check here
2.Arkangel Check here
3.Crocodile Check here
4.Hang the DJ Check here
5.Metalhead Check here
6.Black Museum Check here

The first part of the season explores how a gamer, frustrated with the lack of recognition creates a simulated world to rule over his subordinates, who were essentially is coworkers. Only to end up trapped in the virtual world when his coworkers decide to turn against him in the virtual world and escape, rendering him motionless in the real world.

The second part deals with overprotective parents, and how them trying to control their child’s lie can become potentially life-threatening. When Marie installs an Arkangel, a tracking device on her daughter Sara and censors what she doesn’t want Sara to see since her childhood, Sara’s growth gets hindered. Upon finding out, the daughter stops trusting her mother, hitting her with the device, and running away – never to return. 

The third episode deals with a crime-investigation case of a potential serial killer Mia, who goes about on a murdering-spree to kill people with memory visualizing devices. While the fourth one explores the simulation world of a dating app, where Frank and Amy try to test their compatibilities over a thousand different personalities – which tells the story of the personalities trapped inside the app as if they were real people, and what they go through. 

The fifth part elaborates on what would happen if robotic dogs turn against humans; into a foe instead of the most loyal friend. The sixth part discusses various illicit technologies and how they can adversely affect human – potential threats and dangers. 

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Index of Season 5: Technological Threats

index of black mirror season 5

Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. Striking Vipers Check here
2.Smithereens Check here
3.Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too Check here

The first part of the series is about a virtual reality game called Striking Vipers where Theo’s husband Dan starts to have physical relations with Karl. The feelings and pleasures can be felt by humans in real life, but when he tries to recreate it with Karl, he finds unable to feel anything in real life. 

As this causes fights between him and Theo, upon further pressing Danny reveals his truth. In the end, they come to an agreement to let Danny allow to have physical relations with Karl online, at the cost of Theo picking up a strange man every weekend at the bar.

When a driver Chris meets a mother wanting to access her dead daughter’s Persona account, he grows nothing but desperate to do so. In the course of which, he gets his hands on an employee of Smirthereen called Jaden, takes her hostage, and makes her call the CEO. 

Havoc ensues with the cops circling in on him. However, he somehow manages to threaten the CEO to give the mother her daughter’s account’s password, post which he attempts to take his own life. When Jaden stops him from doing so, a sniper misfire occurs and the pair dies. 

Rachel and Jack are sisters who live together with their father, their mom had left them way back. The latter being an extremely lonely and introverted kid is seen trying to make a place for her and fit in. 

Things change when she gets the famous popstar Ashely Too’s AI doll as her birthday gift, with whom she starts to engage on a daily basis. So much so that the doll ends up being her only friend, instead of a real human. 

Certain events transpire that put the real Ashely’s life in danger, with her aunt being the mastermind behind it all. In an attempt to make money without Ashley’s discretion, the aunt numbs her brain and traces its activities to compose songs while she is still in a coma, and intends to make money based on just that. 

However, this starts to take a toll on Ashley’s health. Soon the doll, Jack, and Rachel set on a mission to save the real Ashely’s life.

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Conclusion

Technology and man are two halves of a whole, but only when the latter has the upper hand. With technological advancements rapidly growing every day, you never know when the life-easing aspect of mankind can turn into a potential, life-threatening taboo. Black Mirror delves deeper into the rare possibilities that might happen if technology ever overpowers humans, setting your brain into a whirl of buzzing questions. Hop onto your links, and start binge-watching right away!  

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Index of Black Mirror Season 1 to 5

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