The 10 Best ‘Black Mirror’ Episodes, Ranked
variety.comHonorable mentions: “Fifteen Million Merits,” “Be Right Back,” “Shut Up and Dance” and “Black Museum.” The final “it was all a dream” twist in “Playtest” is the cherry on top of a deliciously twisted “Black Mirror” sundae.
Wyatt Russell plays Cooper, who accepts an offer to test out an advanced, virtual-reality horror video game but gets much more trauma than he signed up for.
The game taps into Cooper’s darkest fears, such as inheriting his late father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, and delivers enough Dan Trachtenberg-directed jump scares to leave you unsure of what’s really going on until the final seconds. “Bandersnatch” is remarkable not only for “Black Mirror,” but for being Netflix’s first interactive movie aimed at adults.
It gave viewers the chance to make decisions in the story that majorly altered how the story played out – a ground-breaking achievement at the time (and still is).
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