Black Mirror

Question 1

Immersive

Baying audience

Grotesque cartoon demagogue

Collective nightmares

Eerily prophetic

Malignant future spirit

Resonate

Evils of technology

Dark spirit

It’s an extension of our world with the excessive reliance on social media popularity and the dull preponderance of sweetly inane personalities winning out.

Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. Puts in you a constant pattern of thinking there is something better around the corner. As we all know in life…there never is.

SERIES 1
The National Anthem (PM and pig)
15 million merits (X Factor parody)
The entire history of you (Affair evidenced by playback)

Answer 1

SERIES 2
Be right back (AI)
White bear (Criminals relive their acts in theme park)
The Waldo moment (Cartoon demagogue)

White Christmas

The area between delight and discomfort is where Black Mirror is set
Contemporary unease about our modern world
Turpitude - depraved or wicked behaviour or character
To revere our digital gizmos is to become their pathetic slave

SERIES 3

Nosedive (Social media popularity)
Playtest (Haunted House)
Shut Up and Dance (Hacking Blackmail)
San Juniperio (Passing over)
Men against Fire (Soldiers)
Hated in the Nation (Police procedural)

SERIES 4

USS Callister (VR game in space)
Arkangel (Helicopter parenting)
Crocodile (Insured memories)
Hang the DJ (AI simulation dating app)
Metalhead (Post-apocalyptic "dogs")
Black Museum (Revenge mission)