Black Mirror (TV Series) / Episode List

This episode list contains the episodes of the British science fiction series Black Mirror , sorted by their first broadcast on the British television channel Channel 4 and the US streaming service Netflix .

Overview

Season	Number of episodes	First release UK		First publication in German
		Season premiere	Season finale	Season premiere	Season finale
1	3	4th December 2011	December 18, 2011	December 11th 2013	December 25, 2013
2	3	February 11, 2013	February 25, 2013	August 13, 2014	August 27, 2014
Special		December 16, 2014		November 24, 2015
3	6th	October 21, 2016
4th	6th	December 29, 2017
Movie		December 28, 2018
5	3	5th June 2019

season 1

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast (UK)	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	actor	UK quotas
1	1	The will of the people	The National Anthem	Dec 4, 2011	Dec 11, 2013	Otto Bathurst	Charlie Brooker	Rory Kinnear , Lindsay Duncan , Anna Wilson-Jones , Tom Goodman-Hill , Donald Sumpter & Lydia Wilson	2.07 million
The first episode is a political thriller in which the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Michael Callow, experiences a great and shocking dilemma when Princess Susannah, a popular member of the royal family, is kidnapped. Sex with a pig on national television is required by the Prime Minister as a condition for his release . Callow stubbornly defies the request and tries everything to catch the kidnapper before the deadline. He also demands strict secrecy about the kidnapping, but the kidnapping video was uploaded to YouTube and has therefore already been seen by many British citizens. Although the British media initially pledged not to broadcast the story, it soon reached foreign news channels, quickly making everyone aware of the kidnapping and the claim. If public opinion is still on Callow's side at the beginning, this changes after a severed finger, which allegedly came from Princess Susannah, appears on a news channel. In addition, the royal family urges him to take the step, but his wife begs him not to do it. When all other options fail, Callow is forced to fulfill the request live in front of a worldwide public. The princess is released unharmed, and it turns out that she was released half an hour before the deadline. However, this was not noticed due to the Prime Minister's live broadcast. It turns out that the kidnapping was planned by Turner Prize winner Carlton Bloom. Immediately after Susannah was released, he committed suicide. A year after the broadcast, Callow's political image has remained intact, and public acceptance has even increased due to the will to sacrifice his dignity. Princess Susannah has recovered from the kidnapping and is expecting a child. The public knows that Bloom was behind the kidnapping, but not that Princess Susannah was released early. While Michael Callow is accepted in public, his marriage is shattered.
2	2	Life as a game	15 million merits	Dec 11, 2011	Dec 18, 2013	Euros Lyn	Charlie Brooker & Konnie Huq	Daniel Kaluuya , Jessica Brown Findlay , Isabella Laughland , Rupert Everett , Julia Davis & Ashley Thomas	1.52 million
In a dystopian future, this episode is all about a superficial lifestyle characterized by monotonous jobs, the quick satisfaction of simple needs, physical fitness as an ambition, the ideal of beauty and by-product of the most common source of income, the exploitation of talent in undemanding entertainment shows and the consumption of undemanding media that dull the dominant society. In this future, people spend every day at a sports facility on the balance bike to earn credit. They consume paid entertainment programs, apps, infantile comedy, oversubscribed reality formats, pornography or the casting show “Hot Shots”. All wear the same sports suits and live in cramped single rooms, the walls of which are made up of screens displaying this entertainment. Windows that allow a view of nature and daylight do not exist. Overweight people who cannot keep up on the ergometer are degraded to cleaning staff and are exposed to the ridicule of others on the balance bikes and the entertainment industry in degrading programs and games. The credit on the running bike is spent on daily needs, which, in addition to very few real goods such as packaged food and toothpaste or fresh towels, consists mainly of accessories for your own avatar as well as virtual goods and content. It also has to be issued to skip advertising, which is also forced to be viewed in your own home by a whistle sound when you look away. All surfaces that a person can look at there have screens integrated and so his personal content is omnipresent. The expression of personality takes place almost exclusively through avatars, which are not only changed in appearance for a credit, but have also almost completely replaced real interpersonal contact, especially in leisure time. One day Bing hears a woman singing in the unisex bathroom. This is a high school diploma that has only been living in the facility for a short time. Bing is intrigued by her voice and her beauty and makes friends with her, which leads to a romance. She would like to go to earth because her sister lives there, but does not have enough credit to leave the facility and book a place to live on earth that has to be acquired there because of overcrowding. He tries to persuade her to take part in the talent show "Hot Shots". This show promises its participants the chance for a better life, which in this world means being able to leave them or get an apartment with windows. Participation costs a fee of 15,000,000 units purchased on the running bike. Since Abi does not have this credit and earns just enough to make ends meet, Bing wants to give her the credit inherited from a deceased brother. Abi gives him a penguin, which she folded out of the wrapping paper in which an apple was wrapped. Abi, who is forced to obedience drugs by a demotivated production team and led onto the stage, appears and actually manages to sweep the audience (which consists exclusively of avatars on screens) with her. But despite her good vocal performance, the jury played unimpressed and offered her a career as a porn actress instead, because as the jury admits, the jury member "Wraith", who owns the porn channel, is there this season of the show to try to find something "special" to find. "Wraith" had already commented on her body with suggestive and disgusting sayings before Abi's performance. Abi, tearfully and despite the influence of drugs, refuses to accept, so the jury gives her the choice of either becoming a "Wraith Girl" or getting back on the bike. Bing, who tries to keep her from accepting, is led out of the studio by the broadcaster's security guards. Bing falls into a depression that is barely able to make a living. Abi reappears in his four walls as a “Wraith Girl” in the channel's advertising; Bing cannot skip the display due to a lack of credit. He gets angry, suggests a piece of rage from the screens of his quarters and starts to save hard. He cycles obsessively, consumes a minimum of consumer goods and eats what others leave behind. So he succeeds again in generating 15,000,000 units. With these he registers for the casting show. He bypasses the drug and his initially dancing performance culminates in the threat of killing himself with the shard live on the air in front of everyone if one does not listen to him. In his angry speech, he describes the apathy and the superficiality of society, which can only be expressed in digital goods and whose ambition consists exclusively of becoming a "hot shot". He complains about the lack of authenticity in the world they have created for themselves, as reality has become unbearable for society and any sign of true beauty is immediately captured by the media industry and turned into a joke. He ends his speech with a curse about the fact that the media have also torn real beauty from his life from him. After an embarrassed silence in the audience, the jury fell back into its old routine and praised Bing's performance. Bing is offered its own channel by juror "Hope", in which he should regularly comment on the flat, level-free life. The end shows Bing producing his show as an angry man with a shard in a larger apartment with better graphics on the screens. His old room has become the backdrop for his show, a wooden penguin figure stands on his desk. The shard itself can of course also be purchased as an accessory for your own avatar. Bing now also has access to real goods like orange juice and no longer has to work on the wheel. Outside of his broadcast, however, he is as apathetic as he was before his encounter with Abi, who appears again in an advertisement and has now visibly used up its naturalness.
3	3	The transparent me	The Entire History of You	Dec 18, 2011	Dec 25, 2013	Brian Welsh	Jesse Armstrong	Toby Kebbell , Jodie Whittaker , Tom Cullen & Jimi Mistry	870,000
In this alternative reality, every person has access to what they do or perceive through an implant, every experience is saved. These memories can be displayed directly on the eyes or on external monitors. Not only can everything you experience be reproduced as often as you like, anywhere, it is also part of everyday life to discuss different situations with your partner and friends. It is helpful that one z. B. can optically enlarge even the smallest details in order to be able to recognize them afterwards. The story begins with a married couple attending a celebration with friends and acquaintances. As a courtesy, at the end of the meeting the couple invited a man from the group to their home, who had boasted during the evening conversation that he occasionally looked at past erotic experiences with former lovers. Then he and the couple drive separately to their house. During the drive, the husband notices that he thinks the other man is an unsympathetic creep and asks his wife how he knows him. When they arrive at the house, the couple come to the conclusion that they would rather spend the evening alone and unload their companion under a pretext. The following night it becomes apparent that the couple's bond is apparently no longer very active and that they had not told the full truth about the acquaintance. It turns out through his intense urge that he was betrayed by her in a previously experienced break in relationship with that ominous man. The husband then drives to the other man and uses force to force him to erase all memories of his wife. It remains to be seen whether the man is also the father of the couple's child. The empty apartment and several memory flashbacks, in which the eyes of his wife and the child can be seen, indicate that the other man's fatherhood is likely due to the color of the child's eyes. A memory from the bathroom, in which his wife asks the color of the dress to be chosen, is an indication of this question. In the end, the husband removes the implant.

season 2

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast (UK)	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	actor	UK quotas
4th	1	Revenant	Be right back	Feb 11, 2013	Aug 20, 2014	Owen Harris	Charlie Brooker	Hayley Atwell , Domhnall Gleeson , Claire Keelan , Sinead Matthews , Flora Nicholson , Glenn Hanning , Tim Delap & Indira Ainger	2.01 million
Martha and Ash live together in the country. When Ash dies in a car accident, Martha receives an invitation from a friend to an Internet offer that allows her to communicate with an imitation of her deceased husband, which she initially refuses. However, when Martha realizes that she is pregnant and cannot talk to anyone at first, she tries the service. The system's artificial intelligence draws its knowledge from content that Ash, a very online-minded person, has posted on various social networks. Martha is moved by her situation and wishes that she could talk to Ash. This is also possible with an additional service. From now on the artificial Ash accompanies Martha through her everyday life. When it finally becomes possible to bring a human-like image of the deceased to life with the help of AI, Martha also takes this step further and activates the being supplied to her and initially lacking in identity and lifelessness in her bathtub according to instructions. After initial irritation and then joy, in which the new Ash tries to please his wife, Martha soon becomes uncomfortable. Due to a lack of knowledge and other, often dispassionate, character traits, she realizes that this is just an imitation of Ash, with whom she cannot live. So she expels the artificial Ash from the house, only to find him standing in the garden in the morning because he cannot move more than 25 meters away from his activation location without the company of his administrator. So she drives him to the cliff and tries to get him to throw himself down. The outburst of emotions that she herself induced, but played, in which Ash pleads for his life, lets her dissuade her from the idea. After a few years, Martha celebrates her birthday with her now older child. Although it is not a weekend, the child persuades his mother to go into the attic and take a piece of cake. The artificial Ash stands there for the rest of the time and waits for his visit, during which the child apparently uses him as a playmate, while Martha continues to accept this rather reluctantly.
5	2	Evil New World	White Bear	Feb. 18, 2013	13 Aug 2014	Carl Tibbetts	Charlie Brooker	Lenora Crichlow , Michael Smiley , Tuppence Middleton , Ian Bonar , Nick Ofield , Russell Barnett & Imani Jackman	1.69 million
A woman wakes up in a house and can't remember anything. Only one mysterious symbol can be seen in the TVs that are running, underlaid with a strange tone. She is further confused by bits of memory of a little girl she thinks is her daughter and a white toy bear. When leaving the house, nobody can be seen at first. When suddenly a couple in camouflage clothes appear, the woman finds herself - completely frightened - in a kind of hunt in which the small group is driven through the place by a person with a shotgun and mask, which is provided with the symbol already broadcast on television becomes. Strangely enough, the population now appearing seems to have degenerated into mute voyeurs: without comment, people film and photograph the shooter and his victims. When the man in the camouflage suit is shot by the pursuer, the two women continue to flee. Screaming in fear and horror, the stranger is driven on by the fugitive. Scraps of memories of the cuddly toy and child keep coming up in the woman, with the anxious question of where her daughter has gone. Shortly afterwards, the next surreal scenario emerges: In the middle of the forest, people hang from crosses, while other figures, apparently also hunters, want to get hold of the fugitive. Here, too, the voyeurs appear and film the whole thing without intervening. The strange symbol appears repeatedly in different places. After being cornered and her companion injured, the stranger succeeds in snatching the rifle of a man in a welding mask and shooting at him. When only glittering confetti leaves the run, the situation dissolves as a wall opens and behind it a stage appears with an applauding audience. Now the stranger is tied to a chair, while, to the applause of the crowd, actors suddenly leave the stage as actors of the hunters and their supposed victims. The woman is now completely disturbed and frightened about her identity. Together with her friend, who wore the now well-known symbol as a tattoo, the woman kidnapped the little girl, leaving the white stuffed bear behind. For an unknown reason, the woman then filmed how her boyfriend first tortured the child and later murdered it. The case received so much attention and concern that the White Bear Foundation was established. This operates a kind of amusement park, in which actors can experience the scenario they experienced every day to amuse the filming visitors - not the residents. At the end of the day everything is reset to its original state, tidied up and the murderess is deprived of her memory again by means of agonizing electric shocks. In the end it becomes clear that she has obviously had to endure this procedure for a long time.
6th	3	The Waldo candidacy	The Waldo moment	Feb 25, 2013	27 Aug 2014	Brynn Higgins	Charlie Brooker	Daniel Rigby , Chloe Pirrie , Jason Flemyng , Tobias Menzies , Christina Chong & Michael Shaeffer	1.28 million
After the first, merely satirical attacks on a local politician, the actor of a rabid and live animated cartoon bear from a popular TV comedy is urged to take part in his role in the election campaign for membership in parliament. However, the artist increasingly doubts his figure and the role that he is assuming with increasing popularity in the political environment. One evening he meets an opponent and is apparently hoping for a relationship after a spontaneous affair. However, under pressure from her party, she begins to avoid him as a political opponent. His already depressive feelings are thus intensified all the more. When he was unmasked by the constantly attacked politician in a discussion, he verbally lashed out and exposed - still in the role of the digital "Waldo" - for his part the weaknesses of the other applicants. But with that he also meets his real love. However, voter support continues to rise. A reconciliation with the beloved fails. The scandal made the CIA aware of the artificial figure and the opportunities to win voters with biting humor despite the lack of political content. “Waldo” should become a brand. The team of authors thus continues the election campaign, while Waldo's actors become increasingly bitter. When one day the media truck, on the side of which is an oversized screen, via which "Waldo" can be seen controlled from inside, is pelted with vegetables by another politician from the ranks of the Beloved Party, the actor gets out and tries for his part to destroy the screen and thus his figure as well as to call on the population to vote for a “real” politician instead of him. However, the producer takes control, pretends to be Waldo and asks the audience to beat up the renegade. Seriously injured, he experienced the outcome of the election in the hospital. Waldo doesn't win the vote, but he can mobilize the masses to throw their shoes at the hated winner by promising £ 500 each. After a few years, the inventor of Waldo was driven away by police forces when he wanted to sleep under a bridge with other homeless people. On a media wall he first sees a Waldo advertisement, then fighter jets with Waldo as a symbol on the stern and finally Waldo in various countries and languages ​​as a mascot. After he wants to damage this screen too, he is beaten down by the police force of the apparently worldwide, totalitarian Waldo regime.

Special

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast (UK)	German language first publication (D / A / CH)	Director	script	actor	UK quotas
7th	1	White Christmas	White Christmas	Dec 16, 2014	Nov 24, 2015	Carl Tibbetts	Charlie Brooker	Rafe Spall , Nicholas Agnew , Jon Hamm , Janet Montgomery , Zahra Ahmadi , Jonathan Arkwright , Ian Keir Attard & Oona Chaplin	1.66 million
This story also plays on several levels with interwoven real and supposed realities. Two men sit in a snow-covered hut and talk. The two have apparently known each other for five years. One is depressed because of an incident. In this world one is evidently able to let others participate in one's consciousness. This explains why a rather shy young man is accompanied by a coach named Matt, who is one of the two narrating men, to meet a woman in a bar. This is fatally successful - the chosen one is apparently mentally disturbed and considers a brief overheard conversation between her admirer and the dating group for self-talk with imaginary voices - just like with herself. In order to redeem both, she poisons the young man and herself The dating group then breaks off their session and destroys any evidence of contact. Matt and Joe are still sitting in the snowy cabin. Joe asks Matt about his job. He explains that he would train so-called "cookies". The “cookies” are implants that allow the wearer's personality to be recorded and completely copied while they are being worn. So well in fact that the explanted consciousness thinks it is the real person when the chip is removed. His job is to discuss with this candidate and, if necessary, to crack it by imprisoning him for days or weeks in such a way that they submit to their fate and, as a controller, wake the implant wearer, remind them of tasks and appointments or research things. The time that the cookie awareness experiences and that that has actually passed in reality can be influenced differently here, so that the cookie can experience entire months in a few minutes. The other man, Joe, reports that his girlfriend Beth withheld a pregnancy test and "blocked" him in an argument about an abortion she wanted to have performed. Apparently the Z-eye implants that people wear can ensure that you can optically hide an unpleasant person or make them unrecognizable so that they can no longer harm you. Likewise, one is hidden even for the blocked one. Then she leaves him. Horrified by this rejection, Joe tries to confront his girlfriend and chases after her. When he learns that she is still pregnant, he wants to claim his right to the child. The matter ends up in court and it is not only still blocked, but now also due to a court order. He is not allowed to approach her within ten meters and the blockage extends to the offspring as well. But he manages, at least at Christmas, when his ex-partner visits her father, secretly from a great distance and of course pixelated, to catch a glimpse of his child. As a result, every year in deep winter he crouches in the forest and watches the house where the ex-father-in-law lives. In addition, he always gives the child a present in front of the door. The child grows up and starts building snowmen in the garden. One day he learns that Beth had died in a train accident. At the next Christmas he will be particularly happy to see his daughter for the first time, because the blockage will automatically be lifted by the death of the mother. When the man approaches the child with a snow globe as a present, the child turns around and has clearly recognizable Asian features. He realizes that Beth must have cheated on him with their mutual friend Tim and gets angry about it. A dispute with the added grandfather escalates to such an extent that Joe kills the older man with the present. Now Joe is back in the hut with Matt, which he increasingly perceives to be identical to the one in which the grandfather lived with the child. This confuses Joe and he asks where he is. Matt urges him to go on and to reveal the truth: after he escaped from the grandfather's house, the child sat alone in his room and waited. First of all for grandfather to wake up again, then for help or a solution. When she realized that none was coming, she set off for the city, but could no longer reach it in the wintry conditions. So he has two lives on his conscience. Matt is happy with the result and disappears. It becomes clear that this meeting only took place in a virtual room and that he manipulated and interrogated the killer's cookie on behalf of the police. The real Joe is still in the cell and will now be sentenced based on the protocol. The coach is also an inmate who is serving a prison sentence due to the death in the dating group. Through his participation he now gains freedom. However, all people are blocked for him and he for the others, who can recognize him as a criminal through a red pattern. Joe's cookie remains in its egg-shaped simulation environment. One of the policemen calls up a Christmas song that is now playing on the radio in the hut and sets the simulation so that 1000 years pass in a real minute. Then the investigators leave the station for the Christmas holidays. Joe runs around the kitchen table and finally throws the radio on the floor, exasperated, without the song stopping. When he turns around, the radio is completely intact on the counter and the debris has disappeared from the floor. This repeats itself several times and the story ends.

season 3

The third season of Black Mirror was released on October 21, 2016 in both the original and German language on Netflix .

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	Director	script	actor
8th	1	Crashed	Nosedive	Joe Wright	Rashida Jones & Michael Schur Idea: Charlie Brooker	Bryce Dallas Howard , Alice Eve , James Norton & Cherry Jones
This story takes place in an alternative reality in which people can be rated live based on their social rankings and are then treated accordingly. People are constantly evaluating each other and thus creating a fluid structure of togetherness, which is why everyone is nice to each other and pretends friendship and friendliness in order to gain each other's favor. The protagonist of this episode tries to get from her 4.2 to 4.5 out of a maximum of 5 possible points in the ranking so that she can get a 20% discount on renting a fancy apartment in a trendy area and can afford it instead of further having to live with her brother, who is "just a 3 point something". Both a professional coach and her old friend Naomi, also known as Nay-Nay, help her rank higher. She now plans to get married and invites her friend to be her maid of honor, allegedly because of old memories. Since Nay-Nay has an almost perfect rating and all of her guests have at least a score of 4, the protagonist sees her chance of social advancement here. Things go wrong on the way to Nay-Nay, and before she arrives, the protagonist is only a 1.3. Although Nay-Nay has already canceled a phone call in the meantime because of her poor ranking and reveals that she only invited her to improve her own ranking, the protagonist sneaks up to the wedding. This is not easy as the wedding is on a well-secured property that only lets in people of 3.8 or better. Drunk and desperate, she rushes over the company and Nay-Nay at the microphone. The wedding party is visibly paralyzed for fear of taking steps against the troublemaker that could be badly rated by other guests. The protagonist ends up in prison as 0.6. There she meets a prisoner who is unknown to her and they both start to insult each other, freed from the social pressures.
9	2	Thirst for adventure	Playtest	Dan Trachtenberg	Charlie Brooker	Wyatt Russell , Hannah John-Kamen , Wunmi Mosaku & Ken Yamamura
Cooper is a young American who travels the world after the death of his father, who has Alzheimer's disease. At the end of that he finds himself in London, where he spends a night with Sonja, a local. During the entire stay his mother calls him several times; since he has a bad relationship with her, he does not take the calls. Since the details of his credit card were stolen in a previous travel destination , Cooper needs short-term money for the return trip and receives short-term via an app from the video game company SaitoGemu , run by Shou Saito, a Japanese game developer known for its horror games. Since Sonja is a video game journalist, she asks him to send her some pictures from inside the company. When Cooper is left alone for a short time, he switches his cell phone on again, takes a photo and sends it to Sonja. Katie, a SaitoGemu employee , implants a so-called mushroom that accesses his brain: Using a brain-computer interface , Cooper can see things in the real environment that no one else can see. In the evening Katie and Shou take him to an old building where he is supposed to spend the night (Katie is connected to him via an ear button); however, he can end the test at any time. According to Katie, the things he sees cannot physically harm him. He sees spiders, an old enemy from high school, and a mixed creature of the two. While the employee Katie cannot be reached at short notice, Sonja comes to the house and warns Cooper about SaitoGemu . Several other tourists who got this type of job through the app have disappeared. When he doesn't want to believe her, she stabs him with a kitchen knife. In contrast to the previous things, she and the knife are physically palpable for him, he assumes that they are real. After a few minutes Sonja and the knife have disappeared, Katie reassured him that it cannot actually be possible that he physically felt anything. However, he does not want to continue participating and wants to end the test. Katie leads him to another room in the building and then reveals to him that there is no way out. Cooper then, like his father, loses his memory while Katie accuses him of being a bad son for not responding to his mother. At the last moment he calls the code word “Stop” and is torn from the simulation: in truth he is still at the company's headquarters. Katie and Shou apologize for the fact that the simulation seems to have accessed his memory and fears too much. Cooper flies back home to the United States, confused, where his mother does not recognize him and tries to call him. Again he is torn from the simulation: Cooper is still setting up the mushroom with Katie. Only 0.04 seconds have passed since it was switched on. However, since he had not switched off his cell phone after taking the picture, radio waves from a call from his mother disrupt the mushroom and Cooper dies. As a concomitant phenomenon to his death, Katie notes on instructions from Shou that he called "Mom".
10	3	Do what we say	Shut Up and Dance	James Watkins	Charlie Brooker & William Bridges	Alex Lawther & Jerome Flynn
It shows the story of five independent people who all have in common that they have been threatened with publishing leaked material with the potential to destroy existence. The victims receive SMS instructions from the blackmailers to go to certain places and to deliver and pick up items. Here they meet their blackmailed fellow sufferers, creating an interwoven chain. Ultimately, all instructions are carried out, including a bank robbery and the life and death struggle between two victims. Nevertheless, in the end all material is put online. At the end you can see the reactions of the relatives to the revelations.
11	4th	San Junipero	San Junipero	Owen Harris	Charlie Brooker	Gugu Mbatha-Raw & Mackenzie Davis
San Junipero, 1987. The shy Yorkie visits the small coastal town and throws herself into the nightlife. In a bar she meets the spirited and bisexual Kelly, who offers her to have sex with her. After a week, Yorkie finally accepts and experiences her first time. After Yorkie can no longer find her new lover, however, she has to travel several decades within San Juniperos, a simulated reality , to find Kelly. Kelly, who is 73 years old in real life, finally explains that in this simulation both the dead and the dying can transfer their consciousness to their younger selves in order to communicate with the living. However, the latter can only stay in San Junipero 5 hours a week. Yorkie and Kelly marry in order to obtain legally necessary euthanasia consent from a family member . Yorkie dies soon after and moves into the world of San Junipero forever. When the terminally ill Kelly is ready to die, she decides to let her life end through active euthanasia and also to cross to San Junipero, where she and Yorkie are reunited.
12	5	Men of steel	Men Against Fire	Jakob Verbruggen	Charlie Brooker	Malachi Kirby , Michael Kelly , Madeline Brewer , Ariane Labed & Sarah Snook
A military organization hunts mutants, so-called roaches (cockroaches) in Denmark . The troupe Stripe and Hunter is equipped with MASS , a brain implant that significantly improves the human senses. As part of a Ausräucherungs action in a nest stripe of LED -beam made a device that one of the Roaches used - be experiencing then MASS repeatedly disorders, comparable to computer - glitches . When the group goes hunting again , Stripe suddenly sees people, while his comrades still see Roaches . After his leader Medina was shot by a Roach and he knocked out his colleague Hunter , he flees with a woman named Catarina and her son. She then explains to the soldier that, since an act of war ten years ago , the Roaches belong to a class of people who are victims of a propaganda- supported ethnic cleansing operation . The MASS was implanted in the killers in order to make it easier for them to carry out their killing assignments, as it led them to believe that they were acting against mutants. It turns out that through the MASS , both Stripe and his comrades have no memory of their time prior to being enrolled in the eugenics program. Eventually Hunter shows up and kills Catarina and her child, and arrests her traitorous colleague. A few days after the incident, Stripe was finally released from service in full military honor , but had to agree to reset the MASS if he did not want to remain imprisoned for life. So he cannot report the terrible events to any outsider. In the final scene you see him happily walking towards a house where a pretty woman seems to be waiting for him. However, this is just another illusion of his implant , because in reality it is a neglected shack.
13	6th	Hated by everyone	Hated in the Nation	James Hawes	Charlie Brooker	Kelly Macdonald , Faye Marsay , Benedict Wong , Jonas Karlsson & Joe Armstrong
The London policewoman Karin Parke is investigating the death of journalist Jo Powers, who is found in her apartment with her throat cut, suspected of having committed suicide . However, shortly before her death, Powers wrote a lurid article about the suicide of a disability activist , which resulted in her receiving countless death threats online . The young Blue Coulson, who is put aside Parke, refuses to believe Powers' husband's statement that Jo threatened him with a knife and then judged himself. The next day, rapper Tusk has a seizure and is admitted to hospital. He, too, had been the victim of anonymous threats after publicly making fun of a fan . While being treated in an MRI machine, he was killed by an object that the magnetic field carried outside through his eye socket . The object turns out to be a micro-drone in the shape of a bee, part of a British government project to combat bee deaths in the country. The artificial animals should take over the task of their natural conspecifics by pollinating flowers. During the autopsy of Jo Powers' body , such a drone was also found in the brain, in the center for pain perception . This suggests that Powers killed himself so he could no longer endure the pain caused by the bee. Further investigations lead the two women to a social network on which users can vote daily on the death of a public figure , and to the Granular company . They built the drones for their use and can also locate and control them. The company boss Rasmus finally finds out that the drones have been hacked . Using the previously found website, Parke and Coulson find what is believed to be the next victim, Clara Meades, after considering a link between the hacked drones and the voting results. Meades is located and together with her and the federal police officer Shaun Li, who is also involved in the meantime, the two officers go to a so-called safe house . However, a swarm of drones gets inside through the ventilation system and kills Clara. However, since none of the police officers is even injured, the suspicion is that the bees only attack the person for whom they were programmed using facial recognition . The situation comes to a head when the Chancellor of the Exchequer Tom Pickering is declared the next target by vote. Later on, Parke finally comes across Garrett Scholes, a former Granular employee . In the drone recovered from Jo Powers' brain, she finds a digital manifesto written by Scholes , which reveals his plans to show people the consequences of their actions directly from anonymity. The background is the attempted suicide of Scholes' former roommate after she was also the victim of hate speech . Scholes had saved her at the last minute. With the help of the photo that Scholes took of himself, Parke can identify a place where he had been regularly 6 months ago. There she finds a hard drive on which the program to control the hacked drones is located; deactivation also seems to be possible. Once activated by Parke, the program then couples with the database of the death website and sends the data of everyone who has ever voted to the drones. Since the deactivation function does not work, the bees carry out their plan and kill 387,036 people. Finally, Parke, who has meanwhile become a figure of hatred himself, testifies before a committee about the events. She then receives a message from Coulson, who was believed to be dead after the events, who is in an unknown location and who claims to have found Scholes.

Season 4

On December 29, 2017, the fourth season, u. a. in original and German language, published via streaming on Netflix .

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	Director	script	actor
14th	1	USS Callister	USS Callister	Toby Haynes	Charlie Brooker & William Bridges	Jesse Plemons , Cristin Milioti , Jimmi Simpson & Michaela Coel
Robert Daly, silent partner and developer of the virtual reality game Infinity , is dissatisfied with his life and takes refuge in a special version of his own game in his spare time. As Captain Daly of the eponymous spaceship USS Callister , he embodies the hero that he cannot be in real life. The Callister is the flagship of Robert's favorite science fiction series Space Fleet , which is visually and stylistically reminiscent of the original series Spaceship Enterprise from the 1960s. Accordingly, the intro of the episode, with a short adventure against the villain Valdack, is in the format 4: 3. Only later does it emerge that the rest of the spaceship crew are virtual clones of his company employees. Robert Daly has assimilated them into his fantasy world by means of DNA scans in order to avenge himself for wrongdoing on his part (disregard, wrong coffee, etc.). While reconstructing the characters, Daly stripped them of their genital area, but their sense of personality was retained. They perceive the virtual world, from which they can neither escape nor commit suicide, as a prison. The situation seems hopeless, as Daly could recreate her or people who are close to her at any time using DNA samples. In game mode, they feign admiration and submission to Captain Daly in order to avoid punishment (e.g. turning into a space monster); However, they are secretly planning to use an "update wormhole" in the Space Fleet universe as a way out of their dilemma. Using a trick, the crew manages to steal their DNA from Roberts' property in the real world. After falling into the wormhole, they get into the cloud of the game, which allows them to have endless adventures in space. Your tyrannical captain remains alone in his virtual world, however, as the wormhole has closed before he could fly through.
15th	2	Arkangel	Arkangel	Jodie Foster	Charlie Brooker	Rosemarie DeWitt , Brenna Harding & Owen Teague
Marie Sabrell gives birth to her daughter Sara. At the age of three, she disappears from the playground, which is why her mother searches for her in a panic and finally discovers her. She then finds help at the Arkangel company. Sara receives an implant that always provides information about where she is, what substances are in her body and what she is currently seeing. She can even influence Sara's sight and hearing by activating a filter function if Sara is not supposed to experience something. Her mother monitors her using a kind of tablet. The visual filters make Sara increasingly an outsider at her school. She suffers from behavioral disorders, which is why her mother considers not using Arkangel for the first time after an attack by Sara. However, the implant itself cannot be removed. Sara wants to go to a party when she is fifteen, pretending to be watching a movie with other girls. When the excuse is discovered by her mother by chance, she cannot resist and turns to Arkangel again after years. She catches Sara having sex with her school friend Trick. After this experience, Marie keeps her system within reach, which is why she immediately pays attention when Sara asks her boyfriend for drugs. She tracks down Trick and threatens to have him exposed for his drug trade if he doesn't keep his hands off her daughter. He then breaks up with Sara by claiming that he does not want to be with her. Her mother buys the morning-after pill in a pharmacy and mixes it with Sara unnoticed by her milkshake. At school, Sara becomes sick and vomits, while the school nurse informs her of the successful abortion. Sara finds the empty pill box at home and confronts Marie with the surveillance. The situation escalates and Sara knocks her mother out with the Arkangel tablet. The tablet is badly damaged. Sara hitchhikes and escapes the city while her injured mother helplessly calls for her outside the door of her house.
16	3	crocodile	Crocodile	John Hillcoat	Charlie Brooker	Andrea Riseborough , Andrew Gower & Kiran Sonia Sawar
An insurance company's legal obligation to inspect their memories doesn't just ruin the lives of some policyholders. On the way back from a disco visit, Mia and her boyfriend Rob accidentally run into a cyclist. Afraid of being prosecuted for drunk driving, Rob persuades Mia to have the seriously injured man disappear and to keep quiet about the matter. 15 years later Mia is married and successful as a lecture traveler. On one of her trips Rob visits her surprisingly because he is troubled by his conscience. He wants to reveal the truth about the cyclist because his wife has been desperately missing her husband since the accident, but Mia fears for her career and her family, kills Rob in her hotel room and hides his body. Meanwhile, insurance investigator Shazia is tracking down reports of a harmless traffic accident that occurred in the street in front of the hotel around the time Rob was murdered, using a device that can visualize eyewitness memories. In one of these memories, Shazia sees Mia as an eyewitness to this accident, shortly after the argument with Rob. She goes to Mia to get her help with the investigation. Shazia gives Mia the choice of either being connected to this device or reporting her to the police for lack of cooperation. Mia agrees, and Shazia fragmentarily recognizes both the elimination of the cyclist 15 years ago and Rob's murder. After Mia has taken Shazia under her power, she promises not to tell anyone about it. Mia's distrust of Shazia that she didn't tell anyone that she was going to see Mia, Mia checks with the reminder reader and sees straight away how she told her husband. Mia kills Shazia and then travels to her house to also kill her husband. In order to prevent anyone from identifying her presence, she is forced to kill her one-year-old son as well. Police are investigating the deaths and discover that the boy was blind and could not see the killer. She uses the reminder device on the family's pet guinea pig that followed the crime on the boy. While Mia is absent-mindedly watching a school play by her own son, police officers appear in the room.
17th	4th	Hang the DJ	Hang the DJ	Tim Van Patten	Charlie Brooker	Georgina Campbell , Joe Cole , Gwyneth Keyworth & George Blagden
The episode shows the viewer a world enclosed by a wall, in which interpersonal relationships are no longer made on the basis of feelings, but are determined by “the system”. The system is given a 99.8% probability of finding the “right” life partner. The people are advised by their "coach", a mobile handheld device. For example, it asks them to take part in dates with other users, so-called "matches", in a restaurant. The device also indicates how long the couple must then have a trial relationship, including sexual acts. Based on the behavior, thoughts and feelings during this time, the perfect assignment of a definitive partner should be made possible after some relationships. That's how Frank and Amy meet for the first time and it's actually love at first sight. The system only gives you a time frame of 12 hours. Then they go through a number of other - more or less frustrating, even long-term - relationships. Always with the reason given by your coach that everything happens for a reason. To her surprise, but also her great joy, the system brings Frank and Amy back together. To take the time pressure off, they swear not to look on their “coach” for the time given by the system. After a long and intense time, Frank can no longer take it and takes a look. Whereupon the system recalibrates the interval and the original 5 years only become a few hours. Frank and Amy meet for a third time when the system informs Amy that she will meet her final partner the next day. Since she would have to leave this world afterwards, she would have the opportunity to say goodbye to someone special. Amy decides for Frank - in the truest sense of the word: They flee together and want to climb the wall when their world turns out to be one of 1000 alternative simulations in which 998 variations have decided to escape together. The real Amy is this result (99.8%) as a matching result for the real Frank with your online dating - app displayed.
18th	5	Metal head	Metalhead	David Slade	Charlie Brooker	Maxine Peake , Jake Davies & Clint Dyer
In a post-apocalyptic setting, survivors are hunted down by a robot dog . In the episode, filmed entirely in black and white, the main character Bella is quickly left to fend for himself. A fight between man and machine begins. After she has outsmarted the robot dog chasing her several times and finally killed it with two shots, the dying robot dog marks her with location bugs, which she can no longer cut out all of them. This makes the situation hopeless for her, and she cannot return home without leading the robot dogs into their hiding place. Before committing suicide, she made an unanswered radio message that she could not fulfill her mission and could not find a replacement. The final pictures suggest that she was probably looking for a teddy bear for her child.
19th	6th	Black Museum	Black Museum	Colm McCarthy	Charlie Brooker	Douglas Hodge , Letitia Wright , Aldis Hodge & Babs Olusanmokun
A woman visits a museum in which, in addition to the exhibits for the history of the current episode, objects from other Black Mirror episodes are on display, e.g. B. the DNA scanner from USS Callister and the tablet from Arkangel . The museum guide turns out to be the former head of a test laboratory for neurotechnological experiments. The visitor avenges his inhuman acts by poisoning him.

Interactive film

On December 28, 2018, an interactive film called Black Mirror: Bandersnatch , u. a. in original and German language, published via streaming on Netflix .

No.	German title	Original title	Director	script	actor
1	Bandersnatch	Bandersnatch	David Slade	Charlie Brooker	Fionn Whitehead , Will Poulter , Craig Parkinson , Alice Lowe & Asim Chaudhry

Season 5

The fifth season was released on Netflix on June 5, 2019 .

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	Director	script	actor
20th	1	Striking vipers	Striking vipers	Owen Harris	Charlie Brooker	Anthony Mackie , Yahya Abdul-Mateen II , Nicole Beharie , Pom Klementieff & Ludi Lin
Danny lives with his girlfriend Theo and his buddy Karl in a shared flat , where Danny and Karl regularly play the beat 'em up Striking Vipers . Eleven years later, Danny and Theo are married and have a son. On Danny's 38th birthday, Karl comes to his party after the two of them lost contact over the years. Karl gives Danny the latest version of the video game from back then: Striking Vipers X , which now supports virtual reality to make the gaming experience even more realistic. That same night, Danny is invited to a fight in Striking Vipers X by Karl , and both compete against each other in the VR world: Karl slips into the role of the fighter Roxette, and Danny plays the Asian martial artist Lance. After the first battle of their alter egos , however, both get closer in the virtual world, kiss and end the game confusedly. The two then meet regularly in the game to have sex there. In real life, however, they both neglect their relationship with their wife and girlfriend. Theo thinks she is no longer attractive enough to Danny, although other men regularly try to flirt with her. After Danny forgot about the wedding day and Theo accuses him of having a lover, he decides to end the virtual relationship with Karl. Six months later, Theo is pregnant and invites Karl to Danny's birthday. In private, Karl admits to Danny that he tried to have a relationship with other players in the game, but none was comparable to hers. Eventually the two of them meet again for sex in the game, and Karl tells Danny that he loves him. Danny then decides to meet Karl in real life to see if the feelings exist there too. The two kiss, but neither feels anything. For Danny this is the reason to finally end the VR relationship, which Karl does not want. Eventually there is a fight between the two, whereupon they are arrested by a passing police patrol. Theo picks Danny up from the police station and he tells her what happened between him and Karl. In the end, Danny and Theo make an agreement: Once a year Danny gets to play Striking Vipers X , and Theo takes off her wedding ring to meet other men.
21st	2	Smithereens	Smithereens	James Hawes	Charlie Brooker	Andrew Scott , Damson Idris & Topher Grace
Chris Gillhaney works for the Hitcher taxi app in London . In a self-help group , he meets Hayley, whose daughter committed suicide 18 months ago for unknown reasons. After having sex with Hayley, she tells him that she regularly tries to log into her daughter's account on Persona , a social network , to find out the possible reasons for the suicide. One day, Chris takes Jaden, who works for the social media platform Smithereen , as a passenger . On the drive to the airport, Chris stops the car, threatens Jaden at gunpoint and wants to speak to Billy Bauer, the CEO of Smithereen. As it turns out, Jaden is only an intern and only knows the HR manager. Chris drives on with the tied up Jaden and notices that a police patrol became aware of him. His escape by car ends in a field where he takes Jaden hostage. While more police units and their chief of operations, Linda Grace, arrive, Chris, with Jaden's help, is able to reach the operational manager Penelope Wu in the United States. Penelope explains to Chris that Billy Bauer is on a 10-day retreat and cannot be reached. Meanwhile, by analyzing Chris' user profiles, Smithereen was able to find that his fiancée died three years ago in a car accident caused by a drunk driver and that Chris has not been logged in since that time. You can also listen to every conversation between Chris and Jaden via the mobile phone. Smithereen shares the findings with the UK Police and the FBI. Chris continues to insist that he only wants to speak to Billy Bauer. After unsuccessful negotiations by the British police, Penelope decides to contact Billy Bauer. In a conversation between Chris and Jaden, he explains that the gun is not real. Based on this information, Grace orders access to what onlookers at the scene of the crime have heard and posts it on social media. Chris notices this through these channels and fires a shot. The police return the shot and Chris is grazed by a graze. In order to prevent an impending escalation, Billy decides on his own initiative to call Chris. During the phone call, Chris confesses to him that he was responsible for the death of his fiancée himself because he was distracted by a Smithereen notification on the phone and got into oncoming traffic. Since the other driver was drunk, the question of guilt was never doubted. He also accuses Billy that the platform is deliberately addictive. Billy apologizes to Chris for the death of his fiancée and confirms the accusation on the platform. Billy offers to help, and Chris asks him to contact Persona's CEO. Then Chris wants to let Jaden go. However, he feels sorry for Chris and wants to take the gun away from him so that he doesn't kill himself. A scramble ensues between the two, which causes the police to step in and shoot Chris. Meanwhile, Persona checked in to Hayley and she was able to log in with her daughter's password. In the final scenes you see Billy, Penelope and other people reading a message on their phone and then going back to their everyday life.
22nd	3	Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too	Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too	Anne Sewitsky	Charlie Brooker	Miley Cyrus , Angourie Rice , Madison Davenport & Susan Pourfar
The high school student Rachel lives with her father, a pest fighter, and her sister Jack in the same house, the mother passed away for reasons that are not discussed further. The good-natured father, who is very tense due to his research on new mousetraps, gives his younger daughter Rachel an AI doll named Ashley Too for her birthday . The plastic toy is a robot that is equipped with a voice chip and castors for locomotion; the “hairstyle” and the character of the doll are modeled on the famous pop star Ashley O. Much to the chagrin of her older sister, Rachel is preparing with her new "friend" for a talent contest at her school where she wants to dance to a song by the star. During the performance, the girl stumbles and messes up her performance, which further damages her already low self-confidence. Ashley O, meanwhile, has had enough of her aunt and manager Catherine, under whose control she is, and also longs for genres other than pop music in terms of her career. But Catherine, who had taken the girl under her wing after the death of her parents, gave Ashley a large ration of sedative pills at lunch that the singer had secretly hidden in a drawer instead of taking them; Ashley falls into a coma. Ashley Too suffers various malfunctions when she and Rachel watch the news about the pop star's condition. Together with Jack, Rachel can use her father's computer to unlock all of the doll's software, which means that the real personality of the teased Ashley O "lives" in Ashley Too. The sisters manage to break into Ashley's house together with the doll and use a trick to take out the two bodyguards. You can tear the singer out of her comatose state and go with her to a concert hall in which Catherine is about to present a holographic version of Ashley, which of course does everything the manager demands. After Ashley's aunt is exposed, the star is seen performing alternative music with other musicians and Jack as part of a rock band.

Web links

• Episode list in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• List of episodes at Fernsehserien.de
• Complete episode guide at Serienjunkies.de