17. Black Mirror Season 7
Every year in which there’s a new season of Black Mirror, it’s one of the best seasons of TV that year. This year, the dystopian anthology drama series explores the terrifying concepts of subscription services for consciousness, having your consciousness trapped in a video game, and more unsettling collisions of humanity and technology. Issa Rae delivers an all-time great performance as A-list actress Brandy Friday in the episode “Hotel Reverie,” in which she digitally enters black-and-white movie Hotel Reverie to recreate it with AI programming, only to develop a sentimental connection with her unreal co-star Dorothy (Emma Corrin) that rivals the fan-favorite romance of past Black Mirror episode “San Junipero.” Even though the world’s madness is starting to be stranger than what the show can produce, Black Mirror is still in a class of its own.
