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The trailer forBe Right Back, the first episode in the new series ofBlack MirrorThe show’s low point was 15 Million Merits, a blandly on-the-nose takedown of reality television that was almost indistinguishable from American Dreamz, or any of the countless other X Factor satires that have been doing the rounds since the format first went pandemic. In Brooker’s telling, the show’s contestants were literally prisoners, routinely drugged and forced into degrading acts by their power-hungry judges. It might have been material enough for one of those Daily Mash articles that people insist on passing around Facebook, but as an hour-long drama, it was a try-hard mess.But the first series did have its moments of gimlet-eyed insight, and the second series of Black Mirror – which began last night in Channel 4’s coveted post-Gypsy Wedding slot – has so far avoided anything quite so obvious. Instead, what aired last night was perhaps the series’ finest hour to date.
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