The first few seasons sorta did this in some capacity. I remember the intensely British early episodes mostly all included a social critique of some kind. A lot of the times that critique was sorta liberal in nature, but at least it was present. Early Black Mirror was almost like a Twilight Zone for gen z and millennials.
But wow did it have a sharp decline, especially after Netflix got it. Season five and Bandersnatch were especially terrible. I'm not even sure if the show has been renewed. If it ends up getting cancelled, I would hazard a guess that maybe it wasn't covid but those last two releases that did it in.
Imagine if Black Mirror retained the quality of episodes like Fifteen Million Merits all the way through its run. In this thread let's come up with actually good Black Mirror episode concepts. I always get a kick out of people doing the whole "wot if ur mum ran on batteries" bit.
Personally I liked San Junipero just because it was a short break from the bleak and depressing episodes it is surrounded with. It wasn't totally dystopian like the rest of the show, but it was bittersweet in a way. Also the idea of perhaps one day being able to upload my brain into a computer has always been something I've found interesting.
But yeah, the show had several noticeable drops in quality after Netflix adopted it. I enjoyed season three, just not as much as I did the first two seasons. Then I felt season four was maybe just a tiny bit worse than season three. But the worst drop in quality was the jump to season five, by far. I think they simply ran out of interesting stories they could tell by that point. Either that or they started massively phoning it in.
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