Black Mirror
Season 2
3 listed hours · 2011–present · Channel 4/Netflix
From the desk
How this season is filed
Charlie Brooker's anthology as a set of closed arguments about gadgets, grief, and audiences — still going, still skippable by design, still sharper when it stops lecturing and starts framing.
TV Flash files Season 2 of Black Mirror (2011–present) on Channel 4/Netflix as a mid listed season (2; 2 of 7) — 3 listed hours, 2013-02-11–2013-02-25 from “Be Right Back” (S02E01) to “The Waldo Moment” (S02E03). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S02E01 Be Right Back
Grief as a product you can subscribe to. Domestic, quiet, and meaner than the shock hours.
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S02E01 Be Right Back
When a man named Ash dies, his girlfriend Martha is grief-stricken... until a friend directs her to a service that can create an AI programmed with Ash's online personality. Eventually the software offers Martha a new improvement: a physical body for it to occupy.
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S02E02 White Bear
A woman, Victoria, wakes up with amnesia and a fellow survivor tells her that nine-tenths of the world's population have been turned into photo-taking zombies by a mysterious TV signal. To get to safety, they have to evade the sadistic hunters and destroy the White Bear transmitter. However, Victoria soon realizes that something far more sinister is going on.
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S02E03 The Waldo Moment
An animated blue bear, Waldo, proves surprisingly successful as a third-party candidate. But Jamie Salter, the voice of Waldo, begins to have second thoughts when he learns what the governments of the world intend to use Waldo for.
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