Black Mirror Season 7 Episodes, Ranked From Worst to Best

The seventh season of Black Mirror is, relatively speaking, quite good. I say this as a longtime skeptic of creator Charlie Brooker’s high-tech Twilight Zone—an anthology series that, in my estimation, has produced more emotionally manipulative nightmare fuel than trenchant insight into where all these so-called innovations are leading us. But the show has been on an upswing since veering into camp with its fifth season, a three-episode nadir that produced not a single compelling story. Scattered but often intriguing, Season 6 marked both an improvement on its predecessor and a departure from the series’ typically grim, ironic, dystopian science fiction.