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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: Black Mirror; Best Interests; The Full Monty; Count Abdulla – review

Space odyssey: Aaron Paul as Cliff in Beyond the Sea, the third episode of season 6 of Black Mirror.
Aaron Paul in Beyond the Sea, the ‘Twilight Zone-esque’ third episode of Black Mirror, season 6. Netflix Photograph: Nick Wall/Netflix

Black Mirror (Netflix)
Best Interests (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Full Monty (Disney+)
Count Abdulla (ITVX) | itv.com

Back in 2019, I was a little disappointed with series five of Black Mirror. Three limp episodes – one of them starring Miley Cyrus as a pop star sucked into a hologram. What was this: Tales of the Totally Expected? Or, exhausted? It felt as if Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’s futuristic, dystopian concept had lost its briskly chilling horror/sci-fi pep. Now back for a five-part series, the Netflix anthology show feels once more like a big TV event, and with ChatGPT upon us, the timing couldn’t be sweeter.

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