The first episode features the United Kingdom Prime Minister being stuck between a rock and a hard place when the royal family's princess is kidnapped, and he is asked to do a gruesome act with a pig in order to guarantee her release. In a crazy end to the episode he follows through with it, but throughout the episode you can see different instances of people glued to the TV screen and social media rather than addressing the main issue. Also when the gruesome act is finished, those close with the Prime Minister realize that the princess was released thirty minutes before the Prime Minister did anything, and people were glued to the TV watching it.
The second episode, in my opinion was my least favorite out of the three. It showed a very technological based area where people have to earn their way to avoid constant ads and try to sing in a American Idol like contest. In this place people are constantly surrounded by screens and the main character, Bing, gets fed up with the lack of humanity and being able to feel something in the environment. And in the third episode shows people who have a small device implanted behind their ear, where they can replay their memories and can also access memories of other people like their children for example. This proves to be an incredibly piece of technology but comes at a cost when a couple is facing trouble, and it makes the viewer question how boundaries are established with this kind of technology.
All three episodes interestingly enough even though different in their own way address technology and how society uses it. Are these "black mirrors" having a positive impact? And do more boundaries based on the lessons and messages shown in these episodes? Is being connected being too connected, and is there trust with this? To be honest watching these episodes scared me in a sense because it's really a mystery what the future holds. We already have self driving cars that can parallel park for you, is the next thing really a computer chip implanted behind out ear?