The sixth season of Netflix's dystopian sci-fi series is very different from what preceded it. Does BlackMirror still work?
stories. Flaws aside, the season’s sanctimonious paparazzi polemic “Mazey Day” and undercooked true-crime sendup “Loch Henry” both take aim at the mass media; as Brooker has pointed out, that sort of criticism has been baked into the show since the beginning. What even “Demon 79” shares with its predecessors is an arc that begins with a shift in reality as we know it and ends in a monster twist. Every episode at least dabbles in social commentary.
Are these few common threads enough? Brooker believes they are—and hey, it’s his show and he can do what he wants with it. “Aepisode can be whatever the hell we want it to be. There are no rules,” he insists in the production notes. “Part of the impetus for doing the show in the first place was to try to make something unlike anything else on television.
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