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<em>Black Mirror</em>'s 'USS Callister' Is Much More Than a <em>Star Trek</em> Parody

The first episode of the Netflix show’s fourth season finds a new angle on tech horror through sci-fi satire.
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Sophie Gilbert and David Sims will be discussing the new season of Netflix’s Black Mirror, considering alternate episodes. The reviews contain spoilers; don’t read further than you’ve watched. See all of their coverage here.


When ’s third season premiered in late 2016, it began with “,” 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. Its fourth season begins with an opposite horror: a hermetically sealed world, disconnected from

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