Black Mirror
Season 3
6 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 3 of Black Mirror (2011–present) on Channel 4/Netflix as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 7) — 6 listed hours, 2016-10-21 from “Nosedive” (S03E01) to “Hated in the Nation” (S03E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S03E01 Nosedive
Manners with a dashboard. The most quoted social-score parable because you can wear it to brunch.
- S03E04 San Junipero
The tender hour. Proof the anthology could argue for mercy without dropping the premise.
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S03E01 Nosedive
A woman desperate to boost her social media score hits the jackpot when she's invited to a swanky wedding. But the trip doesn't go as planned.
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S03E02 Playtest
An American traveler short on cash signs up to test a revolutionary new gaming system, only to discover the thrills are a little too real.
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S03E03 Shut Up and Dance
After a virus infects his laptop, a teen faces a daunting choice: carry out orders delivered by text message, or risk having intimate secrets exposed.
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S03E04 San Junipero
In a seaside town in 1987, a shy young woman and an outgoing party girl strike up a powerful bond that seems to defy the laws of space and time.
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S03E05 Men Against Fire
After his first battle with an elusive enemy, a soldier begins experiencing unfamiliar sensations and strange technical glitches.
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S03E06 Hated in the Nation
The death of a journalist at the center of a social media firestorm leads a veteran detective and her tech-savvy apprentice to a chilling discovery.
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