Since it migrated to Netflix in 2016, the British science-fiction anthology series Black Mirror has directed much of its techno-paranoia at the online and virtual worlds.
Episodes such as San Junipero in Season 3 (2016) and USS Callister in Season 4 (2017) beautifully illustrated how those worlds can both liberate and alienate, posing unsettling questions about the gap between our real and digital selves and what it means for our humanity.
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