The series’ trailer includes heavy, provocative, ominous questions in a Black Mirror-esque vein. In line with “Hang the DJ,” it’s about a new technology that helps people locate their soulmates. The new French Netflix series Osmosis initially looks like a Black Mirror knock-off. In Brooker’s world, technology can transform even true love into something decadent and callous. Even the relatively upbeat “Hang the DJ” imagines a future where dating apps create and torture sentient AIs to test them for compatibility. “Arkangel” worries that advances in surveillance technology will enable mega helicopter parenting, leading repressed kids into meaningless lives of sex, drugs, and other mischief.
The episode “Nosedive” warns that the drive for social media likes will create a society of enforced saccharine smarm. Virtually every episode of Charlie Brooker’s Netflix anthology series Black Mirror is an Atlantic cover story about how technology is either corrupting the populace or threatening the children.
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