Black Mirror: Is season 7 the worst in the whole series? (critical)

Out of breath, Charlie Brooker’s dystopian satire survives only thanks to a handful of episodes.

“” I don’t think we will be one day short of ideas », We assured us a few years ago Charlie Brooker, the creator of Black Mirror. Perhaps no ideas, but good concepts, it is now a certainty. The same Brooker also explains to refuse to see Severance so as not to blush the comparison. We understand why: season 7 of Black Mirror Barely finding the level of this series that we loved so much, seeking to replace with the melodrama the protruding angles and the prescorce that she no longer really has. Should we still take the trouble to watch these six new episodes available on Netflix? Answer below.

Ordinary people **

To save his wife who is between life and death, a man accepts revolutionary medical treatment that works on subscription. But the price is constantly increasing and becomes unmanageable for this modest couple …
Rather the top of the basket of this season, a nice little episode which is based mainly on the touching performances of Chris O’Dowd and Rashida Jones. Charlie Brooker makes fun of the price policy of Netflix (the finger of honor remains shy) as of the detestable American health system. Rather clever, even if Very ordinary people Has hard to hold on the length, the fault of a very repetitive scenario once its concept is posed.

Bane black **

Maria is responsible for development in a chocolate company. One day, Verity, a former high school comrade who was rejected by all, is hired in her business … and challenges all of Maria’s reality.
The now traditional episode like Crypt talesalmost less techno than supernatural. The era of the Trumpian post-truth reaches her climax in this demonstration by the absurd of the control of reality by the most powerful: sometimes a little silly, but fortunately very aware of being.

Hotel Rêverie *

Hollywood actress Brandy Friday is screened in an exceptionally immersive high-tech remake of a romantic film from the 1940s, and must stick to the script if she wants to go home …
Should we reinterpret the great classics of cinema with current technology? Question that George Lucas obviously poses little, but who agitates this episode all the more intriguing as he invites a black actress (Issa Rae) within a world of absolute whiteness. Unfortunately, Reverie hotel Finally doesn’t do much, preferring to get attached to a very difficult technological concept to swallow. All the less forgivable than Brooker runs desperately after the beauty of San Juniperoby injecting a good dose of The purple rose of Cairo and Casablanca. Far from being sufficient to match your elder.

Simple toys *

Cameron, an eccentric lonely loner who nourishes an obsession with a mysterious video game from the 90s, is arrested as part of an unresolved murder case.
Some episodes of Black Mirror have so little to say that they could last ten minutes without any damage. Simple toys is one of them: umpteenth warnings on the dangers of AI and geeks rejected by society which find in technology a new God to venerate. Forty-five interminable minutes where the only source of distraction is the improbable wig of Peter Capaldi.

Eulogy *

New technology allows you to literally enter photographs. When he has just learned of the death of his youthful love, a lonely man plunges back in his past and his shadows.
Wear, we tell you! Not very subtle, Eulogy tries to impose emotion by all means at its disposal. We surely have no heart, but this whispering micro drama had no effect on us. There remains the show offered by Paul Giamatti, always impeccably delicate, which helps to pass the time.

USS Callister: In the heart of Infinity ***

Robert Daly died, but the crew of the USS Callister, now led by Captain Nanette Cole, must survive in a digital world without faith or law.
Following the episode USS Callister From season 4 (if you have missed it, look at it before this one, otherwise you can not understand anything). All that has little to do with Black Mirrorbut we don’t care: fun like an episode of Star Trek who would have become aware of himself, this USS Callister: In the heart of Infinity is surely the most fun space opera seen from a lease. Even if it is true that competition has been very limited lately.

Black Mirror season 7, to see on Netflix.