This antiseptic, pastel-coloured Stepford-cum-Brave New World is superbly and thought-provokingly drawn, a ring of hell barely distinguishable from good old 2016.
The very best aspect of Black Mirror, the thing that makes the show so compelling, is that Brooker and his collaborators have developed a real knack for taking these seemingly far-flung narratives and making them feel extremely relatable.
This season's batch of Black Mirror episodes are more consistently compelling than ever. It's tough to say exactly why, because so much of the shocking energy in each episode comes from plot twists it would be criminal to reveal in advance.
Black Mirror is unlike any show on television and thus doesn't have some of the safer places to fall back on, but I, for one, am more than happy to watch them continuously experiment, even if some of these attempts occasionally miss the mark.
The defining quality of the new season is... a consuming interest in online humiliation and how the internet has enabled and accelerated public judgment and derision.
