List of Black Mirror episodes

Black Mirror is a British television drama series created by Charlie Brooker. The series is produced by Zeppotron for Endemol. Regarding the programme's content and structure, Brooker noted, "each episode has a different cast, a different setting, even a different reality. But they're all about the way we live now – and the way we might be living in 10 minutes' time if we're clumsy."^[1]

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired	Distributor
	1	3	4 December 2011	18 December 2011	Channel 4
	2	3	11 February 2013	25 February 2013
	Special	1	16 December 2014
	3	12	TBA		Netflix

Episodes

Series 1 (2011)

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Starring	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)[2]
1	1	"The National Anthem"	Rory Kinnear and Lindsay Duncan, with Donald Sumpter, Tom Goodman-Hill, Anna Wilson-Jones and Lydia Wilson	Otto Bathurst	Charlie Brooker	4 December 2011	2.07
Princess Susannah (Lydia Wilson) is kidnapped and the ransom demand is that Prime Minister Michael Callow (Rory Kinnear) must have sexual intercourse with a pig on live national television. Attempts to substitute a porn actor and digitally replace the actor's face with the PM's are inadvertently disclosed on social media. The PM, and his wife, are reluctant for him to do it but following this revelation support drops and his aide, who organised the attempted substitution without the PM's knowledge, says his physical safety is no longer guaranteed. He completes the act. Unknown to everyone the princess had been released half an hour earlier. Her kidnapper was an artist attempting to make a piece of performance art who committed suicide after releasing her. A year later news reports show the PM is at an all time high in popularity but his wife who supports him publicly won't talk to him in private.
2	2	"Fifteen Million Merits"	Daniel Kaluuya, Jessica Brown Findlay and Rupert Everett, with Julia Davis and Ashley Thomas	Euros Lyn	Charlie Brooker & Kanak Huq	11 December 2011	1.52
In a future where everyone but the social elite lives underground and must cycle on exercise bikes in order to earn a currency called "Merit" and to power their surroundings, Bingham "Bing" Madsen (Daniel Kaluuya) uses his entire fortune to get the object of his affections, Abi (Jessica Brown Findlay), an audition on a reality talent show. Abi auditions as a singer but is instead offered a job as a porn actress which she accepts to escape the extreme drudgery. Distraught by this Bing exercises hard to earn his own audition. He threatens to commit suicide on screen while delivering an impassioned speech on the inauthenticity of their entire society. Ironically, he is offered a job to twice weekly deliver a similar speech which he accepts and escapes the drudgery.
3	3	"The Entire History of You"	Toby Kebbell and Jodie Whittaker, with Tom Cullen and Jimi Mistry	Brian Welsh	Jesse Armstrong	18 December 2011	0.87
Almost everyone has an implant allows them to replay everything they see or hear, even displaying it for others to see on tv screens. Liam Foxwell (Toby Kebbell) grows suspicious over his wife's behaviour around an old friend of hers and in replay proves to her that her story about him is full of lies: a one week fling in her youth becomes a one month fling becomes a serious six month relationship. Liam assaults the man and forces him to delete on screen all encounters with Liam's wife. He sees an image of the painting hanging above their marital bed recorded at the time Liam's child was conceived. He confronts his wife and catches her out in more lies about already deleting the encounter and her insisting on the use of contraceptives with the other man calling into question the child's sire. Liam is later shown walking around his now empty house reviewing earlier and happier times with his wife. Later, frustrated, he takes out his implant with a blade and pliers.

Series 2 (2013)

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Starring	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)[2]
4	1	"Be Right Back"	Hayley Atwell and Domhnall Gleeson, with Claire Keelan, Sinead Matthews, Flora Nicholson, Glenn Hanning, Tim Delap and Indira Ainger	Owen Harris	Charlie Brooker	11 February 2013	2.01
Martha's (Hayley Atwell) boyfriend Ash (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed before she learns she is pregnant by him. A friend signs her up, without her permission, for a beta test of software that scans Ash's heavy Internet activity (forum posts, social media accounts) and produces a facsimile of Ash that communicates via email and appears to pass a Turing test though it fully acknowledges Ash is dead. By uploading videos it becomes able to communicate with her via telephone and it tells her of an experimental process to produce a synthetic flesh android facsimile of Ash. She pays for this, interacts with it and even uses it for sex, but she finds that it does not act like Ash did, such as obeying literally her orders to leave during a fight, and even getting ready to obey her orders to jump off a cliff. Several years later Martha's daughter takes her birthday cake up to the attic where the Ash simulacrum resides even though it is not time for the weekly visit, just so she can eat an extra slice of cake herself.
5	2	"White Bear"	Lenora Crichlow and Michael Smiley, with Tuppence Middleton, Ian Bonar, Nick Ofield, Russell Barnett and Imani Jackman	Carl Tibbetts	Charlie Brooker	18 February 2013	1.69
When Victoria Skillane (Lenora Crichlow) wakes up in a chair to find she can't recall anything about her life and a strange signal on her tv screen though she starts having flashbacks about her daughter Jemimah. There are very few people around and all of them are incommunicative, only recording her with their camera-phones. However, she is soon shot at by a man wearing a balaclava. He ignores the voyeurs while pursuing her. She meets a man and a woman who will talk to her. This man is soon killed by the shotgun man. The woman explains that the signal has made most people into voyeurs, some are unaffected and with a lack of law some of these hunt others for their own amusement. The woman and Victoria escape two more attackers, both oddly dressed and wearing masks, and are rescued by another man with a van. Victoria has flashbacks that this man has a safe area in the woods and he says she is right. He explains that the signal can't reach there. Once there he reveals himself as the shotgun man and takes the two women to a clearing filled with his earlier victims but he is shot dead by the unnamed woman. The two women escape in his van and the woman reveals her plan to destroy the White Bear television repeater station as other groups have destroyed other transmitters around Britain. Victoria says that White Bear is a bad place but she is taken there anyway. In the station the two attackers arrive and the woman is killed. Victoria takes her attacker's shotgun and shoots him but all that comes out is confetti. Victoria is over powered and strapped to a chair as the repeater station's internal walls swivel open to the applause of a studio audience. The shotgun man reveals himself as host, the other attackers and victims are actors and the voyeurs are audience members instructed not to talk. Victoria and her husband kidnapped and killed a girl called Jemimah. When Jemimah's white bear cuddly toy was found it became the symbol of the crime. Victoria recorded the murder on her camera-phone and claimed she was forced by her husband. Her husband committed suicide before trial, escaping justice according to public, and the White Bear Justice Park was created where every day Victoria's memory is wiped and she goes through the same terrifying experience.
6	3	"The Waldo Moment"	Daniel Rigby, Chloe Pirrie and Jason Flemyng, with Tobias Menzies, Christina Chong, James Lance and Michael Shaeffer	Bryn Higgins	Charlie Brooker	25 February 2013	1.28
Jamie Salter (Daniel Rigby), a failed comedian who has found unwanted success by performing the voice and movements (via performance capture) of a blue cartoon bear named Waldo, reluctantly agrees to allow Waldo to stand in an upcoming by-election. He meets the Labour party candidate who is a new to politics and while expecting to lose, the seat is a Tory electorate, is using it as a stepping stone for publicity. The pair sleep together but afterwards she is advised by her campaign manager not to associate with him which upsets Jamie. Waldo becomes unexpectedly popular and during a televised debate Jamie accuses the Tory candidate of being a fraud, not even knowing that his own friend, the former MP who was arrested for paedophilia, was a "kiddy-fiddler" but saying the Labour candidate was even worse and revealing publicly she expected to lose and why. Jaded over the experience and arguing with his boss who owns the character rights, Jamie quits. Waldo, now controlled by his boss, places second in the by-election - the Tory winning, and the Labour candidate - who genuinely cared for Jamie - says she was going to call him as soon as the election was over. He ends up living on the streets in a foreign country, assaulted by police officers when he attacks an interactive advertising screen that shows how Waldo has become a huge global phenomenon that would have made him rich.

Special (2014)

No. overall	Title	Starring	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
7	"White Christmas"	Jon Hamm, Oona Chaplin and Rafe Spall with Natalia Tena	Carl Tibbetts	Charlie Brooker	16 December 2014	1.66

Series 3

A third series of 12 episodes has been confirmed and will air on Netflix.^[3] Gugu Mbatha-Raw,^[4] Mackenzie Davis,^[4] Bryce Dallas Howard,^[5] Alice Eve,^[5] Malachi Kirby,^[6] Michaela Coel,^[7] and Kelly Macdonald^[8] will all appear in the third season. Directors for the third season include Joe Wright^[5] Jakob Verbruggen,^[6] James Hawes,^[8] and Dan Trachtenberg.^[9] Series creator Charlie Brooker is set to script all twelve installments of the series.^[10]

References

1. "Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction". guardian.co.uk. 1 December 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
2. "Top 30 Programmes - BARB". barb.co.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
3. http://tvline.com/2015/09/25/black-mirror-netflix-season-3/
4. "Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star in Netflix's new Black Mirror series". The Telegraph. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
5. "Joe Wright To Direct ‘Black Mirror’ Episode For Netflix; Bryce Dallas Howard & Alice Eve To Star". Deadline. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
6. "Malachi Kirby To Star In Jakob Verbruggen-Directed Episode Of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’". Deadline. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
7. "Michaela Coel says Black Mirror role is "the most amazing part I’ve ever played"". Radio Times. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
8. "Kelly Macdonald To Star In ‘Black Mirror’ Episode On Netflix". Deadline. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
9. "‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Director Dan Trachtenberg To Helm ‘Black Mirror’ Ep For Netflix". Deadline. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
10. "Malachi Kirby To Star In Jakob Verbruggen-Directed Episode Of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’". Deadline. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.