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Our sad-sack protagonist, Robert Daly has the profile of a misunderstood nice guy. What I liked most about “USS Callister,” which makes for an exceptionally strong start to this new season, was the nasty, winking twist of its set-up. Credit to the show’s creator, Charlie Brooker (who co-wrote this episode with William Bridges): He can conjure nightmares from anywhere. In “Nosedive,” escaping the online universe was the goal in “USS Callister,” it’s the opposite. Its fourth season begins with an opposite horror: a hermetically sealed world, disconnected from the rest of the internet, a sci-fi fantasy perversely controlled by one man. When Black Mirror’s third season premiered in late 2016, it began with “ Nosedive,” a wrenchingly comical episode about the horrors of a connected world, where every interaction or transaction with another person is rated and judged on social media.
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The reviews contain spoilers don’t read further than you’ve watched. Sophie Gilbert and David Sims will be discussing the new season of Netflix’s Black Mirror, considering alternate episodes.