The first episode of “Black Mirror’s” new, sixth season features a tableau with which its viewers will likely be intimately familiar: A couple, sitting on their couch, deciding what to stream in th…
) watches a series that seems directly cribbed from her life, one in which she’s played by Salma Hayek Pinault and in which every interaction she has is blown up to show her to her worst advantage. Everyone else watches it too: Such is the power of the fictional-but-barely “Streamberry,” a service with Netflix’s aesthetic, reach, and industry-conquering ambition.
Or that’s sort of about that. In “Joan Is Awful,” Streamberry ruins poor Joan’s life, but without particular malice. She’s a Warholian superstar for the #Scandoval age, a figure of disgust at the center of the entertainment universe, but the same could have easily happened to anyone: Joan is just a widget.
That’s a good approach for a show that has often had its protagonists the passive victims of their circumstances: I’ll admit I was more engaged as the show moved from metacommentary on Netflix out into more general, and less specifically “Black Mirror-y” concerns. To rate a season on the whole is a challenge — I’ve noted that this is an improvement, but the episodes vary quite widely in quality from worst to best .
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