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Black Mirror – Season 5, Episode 2 Smithereens

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Black Mirror – Season 5, Episode 2

Smithereens

Aired Jun 5, 2019

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Drama

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A London rideshare driver ignites an international crisis after he kidnaps a worker from a social media company.

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A slippery moral dilemma and a superb turn from Andrew Scott make "Smithereens" watchable, even if its familiar story feels more like an early episode of Black Mirror than a fresh futuristic horror story.

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Chancellor Agard

Entertainment Weekly

06/05/2019

C+

Black Mirror usually makes insightful and interesting points about technology and culture as a whole, but this just felt lazy, disappointing, and removed from how we actually talk and feel about popular music today.

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Luria Freeman

Entertainment Weekly

06/05/2019

A-

While equal parts thrilling and heart wrenching, my biggest takeaway from this episode is that I'm completely validated in lying to talkative Uber drivers.

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Zack Handlen

AV Club

06/05/2019

B

It's funny in a grim way, sort of Coen-light, and the time it takes for everything to unfold means there's a low level of suspense that gradually increases in intensity throughout.

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Zach Kram

The Ringer

07/18/2023

It seems impossible for a show as creative as Black Mirror, with a lead actor as charismatic as Andrew Scott, to produce a boring episode of television. But that’s exactly the case with “Smithereens..."

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Olly Richards

NME (New Musical Express)

04/29/2021

Smithereens is a middling installment, a bit of a grumpy dad hand-wring about the evils of social media. It takes place in a world just a little out of date and its points feel just a little behind the current conversation.

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Huw Saunders

Cultured Vultures

08/22/2019

8.5/10

Probably the best of this season's crop, and it does it all without any unlikely fictional technology.

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Synopsis

A London rideshare driver ignites an international crisis after he kidnaps a worker from a social media company.

Creator: Charlie Brooker
Executive Producer: Annabel Jones
Network: Netflix
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date: Jun 5, 2019

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