Every 'Black Mirror' episode ranked from worst to the best

Every 'Black Mirror' episode ranked from worst to the best

The Charlie Brooker-created 'Black Mirror' came as a shot in the head when it originally premiered on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in December 2011. The premise of the first episode, 'National Anthem', was a bonafide WTF moment, and the anthology series has kept those moments coming despite letting us believe that anything is possible in the dystopian tech-gone-bad milieu of its world.

Anthologies have become the most widely consumed content pieces of late and it's not surprising that they have become the rage. From 'Love, Death and Robots' to 'American Horror Story,' anthologies have a distinct way of storytelling, except none of them have reached the heights of 'Black Mirror'.

While the series consistently delivered surprises and hits, there were a few misses along the way, and ahead of the fifth season, we tried ranking all the episodes in the series from the worst to the best. 

But before we do that, a special mention of 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch', an interactive film that gave viewers a chance to control the narrative and see the effects of the choices made. There are over various potential paths to view the work with five distinct endings. 

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Controlling the narrative. (IMDb)

 

Showrunner Brooker's most ambitious project to date. The show sees "us play" Stefan (Fionn Whitehead), a game developer, trying to design a game with multiple choose-your-own endings and realizes that over the course of the series, he too is a puppet in a similar situation. While the show received mixed reviews, it scored points for the most mind-boggling show ever made.  

And now for the episodes

19.  'White Bear' (Season 2: Episode 3)

Decoding voyeurism. (IMDb)

 

White Bear starts with a woman (Lenora Crichlow) who wakes up an amnesiac and finds out that everybody is controlled by a TV signal. There are people out to kill her, and as she runs from them she is horrified to discover that instead of helping her everyone has turned into a voyeur and are just filming her ordeal. The big reveal at the end shows that everything had been staged, and the day is her punishment as she and her boyfriend had tortured and killed a child. She wakes up everyday not knowing who she is and the same events are repeated. The episode takes voyeurism as a theme.