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The 9 Most Realistic ‘Black Mirror’ Episodes, Ranked
One foot in reality, the other foot jammed deep in your saddened soul
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9. ‘Be Right Back’ (Season 2, Episode 1)
Creating A.I. out of someone’s social media posts and writings is possible. Putting that A.I. into a convincingly humanlike body that isn’t just an uncanny valley disaster? Much less likely.
8. ‘Hang the DJ’ (S4, E4)
This surprisingly optimistic take on online dating depicts would-be lovers put through seemingly infinite sets of circumstances to determine their compatibility. But let’s be real — humans are just fine with smartphone-swiping their way into someone’s heart or bed.
7. ‘The Entire History of You’ (S1, E3)
Recording memories to video is an actual thing likely to happen in our lifetimes, but considering the storage and bandwidth currently required to do it at all — let alone record your entire life on the fly — this one is still a ways off. Thank God (and our neurotic obsessing over every stupid thing we’ve…
