A sci-fi series that almost everyone knows and that can still amaze after more than ten years not only enriches Netflix, but also our big genre ranking.The 50 best sci-fi series since 2000 were chosen this month by the Moviepilot editorial team. In 5th place was an exceptional format that began as a British series insider tip with varied future dystopias and finally became world-famous when it was taken over by Netflix from season 3. After 6 seasons, Black Mirror has become an integral part of the science fiction landscape
Netflix’s multifaceted sci-fi series Black Mirror plunges us into ever new futuristic abysses
There are many anthology series that tell a new story in every episode. But few are as influential as the sci-fi format Black Mirror. Inspired by the stories of the Twilight Zone, series creator Charlie Brooker has been letting us look into the black mirror since 2011. The titular Black Mirror stands for the black surface of our technical devices that is switched off and reflects our own dark image back at us. The diverse visions of the future that the series paints of humanity are often correspondingly gloomy
(The Black Mirror is all around us)
With 27 episodes so far, most of them an hour long, and the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, an enormous range of sci-fi visions have come together. Stories such as the extremely dark Christmas episode White Christmas (season 2, episode 4) or the emotionally compelling episode San Junipero (season 3, episode 4) are unforgettable. But no matter which episodes you personally consider to be the best Black Mirror visions: The Netflix series, which repeatedly tests our pain threshold, is characterized above all by its merciless mind games.
Sci-fi trailblazer: What makes Black Mirror on Netflix so special
Sci-fi movie X feels “like one long Black Mirror episode”. I’m sure every genre fan has heard this phrase before. It shows how firmly the series has become ingrained in our minds. The fact that the episodic format means there are always new stories, both outstanding and less convincing, is what makes the surprise within the beloved genre so appealing. Because we never know what to expect in the next episode.
Whether it’s a bitter commentary on social media, a black-humored space adventure, a robot chase or a futuristic dating app: the unpredictability of Black Mirror is also the spice of the sci-fi series. And even if fans are upset about the development of the latest Black Mirror season, this still means that we are still talking about the series with passion more than ten years after its launch. The star power of the cast ranges from Jon Hamm and Alan Ritchson to Bryce Dallas Howard and Zazie Beetz.
Season 7 of Black Mirror has, of course, long been in the pipeline
