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Is Black Mirror Scary, Horror, or Good?


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Considered as one of the best television series in the 2010s, Black Mirror remained quiet for the last two years, and may it be the pandemic or some issues, the comeback of the show remains a floating question. As it has a lot of different genres, the creation of Charlie Brooker confuses fans as to the main target whether it is scary, horror, or good.

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The show is considered as the modern The Twilight Zone where it is based on. It has some speculative fiction going on and it entered Netflix in 2016 gaining more popular globally than it used to have when it first aired on Channel 4 of the British Network for the first two seasons. It jumped on Netflix by Season 3 until the fifth.

However, Season 6 remains in question since the departure of Brooker and the executive producer of the show, Annabell Jones, from House of Tomorrow and Endemol, caused some issues on the intellectual property rights on the show. While Netflix has yet to order new episodes, it was not canceled as well.

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Just by looking at the kind of the series being an anthology, it already offers a diverse genre of episodes of different topics. While some may be horror, scary, or good, it focuses more on near-future dystopian events, various uses of science fiction technology, some nerve-wracking "what if" topics that could possibly turn out to be too close to reality.

All episodes are different, to say the least, as each offers a new set of characters and plots, however, there are some connections between them as well. Other topics from different runs have something in common, may it be a person or an event. This is what makes the genre diverse. While all of the episodes are in one shared universe, what happens in each would be different from one another.

It is not horror per se. What makes it scary at most times is that some events portrayed in the show are too close to reality that they might really happen in some distant future. It is nerve-wracking to think about what technology could bring to the table and change the world in one snap. Take this present pandemic as an example, before everything went into lockdown, people are living normal lives only to be disrupted and changed by disease.

It's a good show, actually, considering the contemporary issues raised in the series. It seems as if it prepares people, especially the followers of it, to look beyond the present and be equipped for what possibility the future could give. Hopefully, the show would make a return anytime soon despite Season 6 not possibly happening in 2021.

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