Black Mirror’s Arkangel misses out on so many story opportunities
The fourth season of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on December 29th, 2017. In this series, six writers will look at each of the fourth season’s six episodes to see what they have to say about current culture and projected fears.
Other essays in this series address “USS Callister,” “Black Museum,” “Hang The DJ,” and “Metalhead.”
Spoiler warning: This essay does not give away the ending of “Arkangel,” but does broadly address its plot.
Charlie Brooker’s tech-horror anthology Black Mirror is largely about exploring the downsides of the way we use technology. The best episodes are imaginative and daring, but they also tap...