This Black Mirror Episode Is Actually A Remake Of A Classic Twilight Zone Story

I don’t know if you have heard this or not, but the British anthology series “Black Mirror” has strongly inspired the 1960s American anthology series “The Twilight Zone”. Sure, the former may not be the creator stopping twice in a period that tells like the latter (the latter (Something rod serling really hated to do), but it is still easy to see the connection between the two. They both present their speculative one -off spaces to explore the darker sides of the human psyche, and have different sharing each episode (Well, almost, in the case of a “black mirror”) and are not afraid to stop things with Bummer’s notification.

Therefore, it is not surprising that “White Bear”, the nonsense of the Gloomy season 2, “Black Mirror”, was at least partially inspired by “Doment Night”, “Twilight Zone” Dark season 1. They are different enough to prevent most viewers not notice, but their themes undoubtedly have a ton of overlap and hosts punches.

In summary, “White Bear” is a episode of a woman who wakes up Amnesia. He gets into a world where some people are mentally deteriorated, while others have turned into lifeless zombies attached to his phones. After spending most of the episode trying to survive, instead of helping people standing on their phones, he finds out that this is all a scam (a thread that was a last -minute addition to the episode manuscript). In reality, he is in a special prison and is now being tortured in a way that corresponds to the poetically committed crimes.

“Judgment Night” is in the midst, is a episode of a guy suffering from Amnesia, who is on a British passenger ship in 1942. When he was alive, he was a U-boat captain who torpedoed a Torpedo during the Second World War of the British passenger ship. As such, his divine punishment is to force him to live from his war crime from the point of view of passengers every night, in a loop that continues into the whole eternity.

It is difficult to say which of these episodes is darker. At first glance, it seems that the “white bear” is more severe, if only because its protagonist Victoria (Lenora Crichlow) is immediately sympathetic. Before the episode pulls the carpet and reveals what they have done, each viewer feels bad for Victoria and takes root in him. At the same time, the “Night of the Judgment” leads Carl Lanser (Nehemia Pääff) is a bit harder to keep. He is a terrible talker, and when he mentions his birth in Frankfurt, it is quite easy for most viewers to find out what happens.

Where “Twilight Zone” exceeds “Black Mirror” here is the punishment alone. Victoria can only be tortured during the lifetime, while Lanser is explicitly tortured throughout the eternity. Making things darker is that God Himself is punished, or at least some kind of powerful force. As a result, this serious punishment he has paid is what he deserves and can never have any redemption on the line. In the meantime, other people are made to torture in the “white bear” torture. We are not intended to be terrified solely on what Victoria has done; We should also be terrified of what people are doing for him now.

All in all, I think “Black Mirror” is a more interesting starting point because it leaves the public more to think about the nature of justice and the importance of memory in someone’s identity. “Judgment Day”, in turn, leaves a little confusion about whether Lanser deserves his fate period even contains a scene with him before death, where he boasts evil and spits before God. But the “white bear” gives you to learn only used for Victoria’s crimes; If you want to believe that he is innocent (or at least not, not as repentant as claimed), “Black Mirror” gives you room to do just that. There may be a more pure story on “judge”, but the messy effects of the “white bear” are much more attractive.