BLACK MIRROR Season 1 - 6 EVERY Episode Ranked 

This was such a fun video to make! What is your ranking of ALL of the Black Mirror episodes? Comment yours below!

I really enjoyed Hang the DJ. It was a simple, well-acted and emotionally resonant story that's stayed in my mind long after the credits rolled. The tech was also eerily plausible, though obviously a bit exaggerated for dramatic impact. It was sad to see it so far down on your list.

I go back and watch "Hated in the Nation" fairly regularly. It feels so different from most other episodes cause of it's pacing, it's by far the longest episode and is constantly adding new elements to the story. It feels like a movie. I also loved Fifteen Million Merits, it was the first episode I saw and is still the most memorable.

What I like about this show is that I'm never, ever able to predict how it'll go. Like in Beyond the Sea, I thought the other guy was going to kill Aaron Paul's character, maybe by leaving him outside the capsule, and also lie to the wife, trying to pass himself off as her husband. But she catches on when she hears him humming one of the records he liked to play.

I always rank "Shut Up And Dance" high because that was the episode that got me fully into Black Mirror and I had to go back and watch the other episodes. It made me realise that when you watch Black Mirror the people you follow are misleading you and they're usually the villains in the end. Speaking of misleading you and being the villain in the end "Beyond The Sea" is probably my favorite. Aaron Paul did wonderful.

The Entire History of You, Be Right Back, and San Junipero really stand out to me because they were not just about technology, but about relationships between normal people.

nah having hang the dj that low is a violation, i loved that episode, one of the few episodes that actually have a feel good ending

Playtest is my absolute favorite because of the the many plottwists. It got to a moment which I got actually scared and was so unsure of the reality of the show, and then when I was sure, they cracked it again. Also the kind of mystery going on between the character and his parents are really engaging even tho it wasn't fully elaborated which makes it even cooler to me (I also like some horror)

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Such a great show! To this day White Christmas has stuck with me the most, mainly due to the final scene where the two police officers nonchalantly crank up the loop timer to, what was it, a million years, give a little chuckle and then leave for their holiday weekend. Utterly horrifying!

Hang the DJ is one of my favorite black mirror episodes, pretty surprised that it is ranked so low.

hang the DJ is one of my favourite episodes, even if it doesn't really fit black mirror due to the happy ending

Just realized that the mom from Loch Henry was the police chief from Smithereens

I’ll forever love be right back, san junipero, white christmas, nosedive & crocodile the most because they feel the most character-driven which i love

The ending to Beyond the Sea was surreal. I quite literally was left speechless, jaw dropped, staring at my black mirror while the credits scrolled. Brilliant ending from such an incredible show. Loved the video!!

I really feel like arkangel doesn’t get enough love. I found it very powerful as someone who’s a mother now and was also once a teenage girl.

I just wanted to thank you for mentioning the supporting cast of “Beyond the Sea”. They all did amazing jobs, and tend to be overlooked by Aaron and Josh’s performances.

My favorite thing about Playtest is that in a rewatch, if you are wearing headphones, you can hear a phone vibrating incorporated into the music. Sonething youd never take note of the first time, but something ultimately gutwrenching when you finally notice. I remember thinking my phone was vibrating the whole time he was in the game.

I liked “Shut Up and Dance” because of how they try to make you think one thing and the twist changes the whole story where he turns out to be a pedophile. Beyond the Sea is my next episode that I’m going to recommend everyone to watch. I just love when they make you think he was going to lock him outside of the ship to die and secretly take over his body only to have a completely unexpected twist at the end that gives me chicken skin while the credits roll.

My favourites are Black Museum and White Bear. I did like Loch Henry but i predicted the mums involvement straight away

I think this show has slowly turned into the most important TV Series of our generation. Seriously you can get so much conversation and discussion out of each of the episodes. I was at the basketball court today and overheard someone saying that they needed to get home to finish the rest of season 6. Damn Good Television.

my personal ranking for season 6 episodes alone is: 5)mazey day 4)joan is awful 3)demon 79 2)loch henry 1)beyond the sea. Overall this season was like a 7-8/10 in my opinion.

Stringing Vipers has stuck with me for so long. I honestly think it’s brilliant.

i think smithereens is one of the best by far, because of how much i and many of us can relate to the characters views, the concept is already much of a reality and i cant help but empathise with the main character as i strongly agree with him

Thanks for this video, it was fun seeing which episodes you genuinely enjoyed, and which you found just passable.

Hang the dj being 24th is cray

Nosedive is my absolute favorite episode in this entire series so I was secretly hoping for it to be at least top 5 and you can guess how happy I was to see it at #3 for you!

The one pattern about season 6 that I noticed is that it entirely steers clear of its traditional, prophetic dystopian slant on the abuse of technology in the future. Almost every episode goes back in time and/or has completely abandoned the dystopian sci-if element in favor of more fantasy/supernatural type themes. Like a lot of Black Mirrors previous seasons focusing on dystopian sci-fi creative predictions have almost caught up to where we are today, obviously not literally but in concept and direction we’re not to far from some dystopian milestones. Most of the episodes were good for what they were and I accept that a show doesn’t have to be what I expect exactly. But admittedly, I would’ve been more interested to see episodes set in 2060 challenging Elon Musk’s theory about the singularity. I mean transhumanism with tech is literally being discussed right now. What would that look like in the next decades? Joan is awful is probably the closest to discussing a near future and even this episode confines itself to Netflix making itself the butt of anything antagonistic…Not to be all conspiracy theorist, but as I was going through each episode and noticing how almost all were set in the past..it did almost seem like the traditional approach Black Mirror always took was sort of avoided and abandoned altogether as not to offend tech companies or at least portray them in a bad light to the public as they are literally inventing things at a rate right now that might take us to a dystopian future…idk, it’s a stretch of thinking for sure. But just am sharing this comment because nobody’s discussed this angle yet and maybe others took notice?

I go back and watch White Christmas all the time the story was well constructed and it all paid off to an amazing ending. That episode along with The Entire history of you are the two episodes I recommend to other people to watch no matter what. They do the best at mixing the technology with the story and imo have to best endings in all of Blackmirror. Overall good list I definitely have a different list then yours 3-28 but you got the two most important ones at the top.

Great list, I really enjoyed it. Thinking about White Christmas it strikes me how sad it was for the man who thought he had a child. Had the women uttered three simple words "it's not yours" she could have saved him an eternity of pain. She is the true villian of this episode.

Mazey day being last is the reason I liked lol 😂

I just watched white christmas and it blew me away, existential dread showed perfectly on a TV screen

I loved Stiking Vipers cause it was so damn weird and had you feeling awkward the whole time. I would rank that episode top 3. Its funny how differently people like different episodes.

Great rankings! I especially agree with the bottom 3. And ty for ranking White Bear so high. That’s my fav episode and it’s the one that got me onto the show because my dad was explaining the plot and I thought it sounded cool af so I watched and the rest is history.

Beyond the sea has stuck with me. Great episode

To be honest with you I disagree with you on striking vipers. I think the ending was actually a good ending. A loving couple making a compromise. I didn’t find it dark, on the contrary, I found it quite mature.

So happy that someone agrees with me as entire history of you as the best, white Christmas also 2nd for me, what did surprise me about this list is hang the DJ and loch Henry being so far down but this is such a hard list to make because there are so many good ones I appreciate your efforts

The Entire History of You is in my top 5/10 episodes instead of my favourite but it will always be special to me. It really was the episode that made me love the show and I had such a strong reaction to watching it. Even the worse episodes of the show are incredibly well executed and BM in general is truly unforgettable

The best for me is "Hated by the Nation", but I realy liked USS Calister, Nosedive, San Jupitero, Hang the Dj, White Bear..i love this series 🥰

1. White Christmas 2. White Bear 3. Shut up and Dance 4. Black Museum 5. USS Callister I think some of the worst to me are The Waldo Moment, Metalhead, Rachel Jack and Ashley Too, and Mazey Day I think the rest of the episodes are pretty good. One of my dark horse favorites is Crocodile

I have only watched 5, but decided its one of my favourites. San Junipero, 15 million credits and Demon 79 are all fantastic.

Episodes like Mazey day can be good... only if they're not bearing the "Black Mirror" title. Like if I want that kine of episodes I'll be watching Stranger Things or something...

Idk if bandersnatch could be considered a BM episode but its one of my favorites. Back when I watched it I was really into interactive video games(Detroit become human, until dawn, life is strange etc) and bandersnatch surpassed all those without even being a game.

Now I want to watch the whole show again

Thank god, I expected everybody but me to just rank Joan Is Awful so highly as I've seen many people express it as their favourite episode of season 6 which was insane to me, thank you for making me know I'm not insane.

That was enormous fun to watch, so thanks. I won't judge your order since it's all so subjective. I would like to make a few observations, however: I completely agree with your Mazey Day observation. A terrific episode was let down by an odd horror angle that came out of nowhere. Season six is substantially better than many would have us believe. I enjoyed all of them to varying degrees. With three episodes being outstanding (Joan and Mazey being the two "good, not great episodes). As for gut punches... Under the Sea and Loch Henry deliver in spades. Yet, no episode has shocked or upended everything I thought I knew, like Shut Up and Dance. Quite brilliant.

I personally loved Mazey Day. The werewolf twist was just out of left fuckin field. I didn’t know what to expect but I was still not expecting that. Beyond the sea DEFINITELY one of their best episodes. The way they were making it seem, I thought 1 of 2 things was going to happen. Either that the wife was going to end up living Josh Hartnett more or that Josh was going to kill Aaron but then pass off as if he was him fooling his wife. But murdering his family??????? HOLY SHIT I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!

Hang the DJ is one of the best episodes I. The show wdym??

Beyond the sea is wild asf

Crocodile at #22 is BULLSHIT

I did my ranking on Letterboxed yesterday. My current top 3 are "Shut up and Dance", "Loch Henry" and "Smithereens".

I'm obsessed with beyond the sea. So good.

Definitely agree with the bottom half of the list, especially the bottom 5. Mazey day felt so... off. BM doesn't have to be technology focused but the felt too on the rails. Although I think the one with the nano bees should be down there too. Edit: The Entire History of You is my favourite story next to White Christmas. It's so powerful and re watchable. Its so raw, personal and real - this is something I think lacks in other episodes

I love Annie Murphy to death. Her acting was sublime, but the directing and writing didn't bring enough of the introspection with the simulated reality twist at the end. We only saw it with Annie Murphy's acting when Level 1 Joan realized that the real Joan was already going to break the Quamputer anyway. They wasted an opportunity to portray an existential horror that would've been more reminiscent of peak Black Mirror episodes.

I can’t take you seriously putting vipers at 25 😂😂😂

Striking Vipers is so thought provoking though

Thank you for saving my time

White Christmas is my personal favourite

This whole season 6 felt more like twilight zone than your typical black mirror episodes except for ep 1 & 3

there's a few episodes in season 6 where i felt like the emotional impact suffered for the sake of comedy or cheap shock value. however, all of the episodes were incredibly fun to watch and it was really entertaining to laugh about some of the absurd choices (for example the werewolf thing) even though it took away from the underlying theme. it definitely felt more flat and light-hearted though, maybe except for the loch henry episode.

san junipero is my fav. but over all this list is really on point :)

I really liked the last 2 you ranked lol i loved them both. Also the Miley Cyrus one was I think meant to sort of be a Hannah Montana episode put into Black Mirror.

Yo the doctor story in black museum seriously freaked me out and that’s not easy to do

I really liked “beyond the sea” but I knew the ending halfway through the episode! I wasn’t shocked

White Christmas is my favorite.

Can't rank them all but best from each season. The National Anthem. White Bear. Shut Up and Dance. USS Callister. Smithereens. Loch Henry. White Bear and Shut Up and Dance standing out the most. Always a gut punch. The Waldo Moment was probably the only episode that really disappointed me, rather dull and the ending had me rolling my eyes. Enjoyed all your breakdowns of this season. Hope we don't have to wait too long for the next one.

Arkhangel is underrated

This is inspiring me to watch The Waldo Moment again, now that I feel like North America is living it.

metalhead being as high as it is, above episodes like crocodile and hang the dj, was all i needed to know about the list

I gotta say, your top choice is the one episode I've refused to ever watch again because of the pain I felt watching him go through that. Probably why it deserves the spot tbh

Great review bruv. Keep it up!

The UK based episodes out do the US episodes except for a couple. Also When Netflix got involved seems things changed. If you know what I mean.

i really like your list - not that I agree with all of it - but I enjoyed hearing the reasons why you felt each each episode ranked the way they did. It makes me want to revisit Beyond the Sea again because I just found the ending confounding. I didn’t understand why the big thing had to happen at the end and wondered how believable a scenario like that would actually be (assuming we’d have that technology) Demon 79 was a huge surprise and I think would be quite high on my list, maybe even #1 which is so weird because it has nothing to do with tech. But if I had to choose one at the top that did have to do with tech, I’d probably choose Nosedive. The ending to that makes me want to shout for joy. the actors are just so free despite being locked up. Anyway, great list! thanks for sharing.

For me white Christmas is bar far the best episode, and one of the best things I've ever seen on TV

Brooker has said in interviews that Liam was in fact the father of their child with Fi, not Jonas... making his emotional breakdown that ultimately pushed them both away from him all the more tragic

my favorite episode is SAN JUNIPERO , i will never forget it. it actually made me cry :(

Totally agree with you about the first place

Imo the storyline of beyond the sea is way too predictable.

My favorites are Crocodile, 15 million merits, white bear, metalhead, shut up and dance and white Christmas

white bear, shut up and dance & loch henry are my top 3 episodes!

Hated in the nation was one of personal favorites

white Christmas was the craziest shit I ever seen

In "Shut up and dance" while he is talking to the girl, in the background you can hear the song "Thats the way I like it"

I literally forgot the entirety of Crocodile even though I've watched it.

I haven't watched every episode of Black Mirror, but already seen a great bunch so my ranks so far: 1st - Nosedive 2nd - Be Right Back 3rd - San Junipero 4th - The National Anthem 5th - Joan is Awful 6th - Loch Henry 7th - Demon 79 8th - Beyond the Sea 9th - Smithereens 10th - Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too 11th - Mazey Day 12th - The Waldo Moment - In regards to Mazey Day, Charlie Brooker actually originally was going to label it as Red Mirror like Demon 79, so season 6 would've had 3 Black Mirror stories and 2 Red Mirror stories. However, given that the werewolf twist is the twist with the story and labeling Mazey Day a Red Mirror story might spoil it, Brooker decided to label it as a Black Mirror episode to hide it. That said, Mazey Day had a really great and interesting concept about paparazzis and celebrity privacy, but what made it a missed potential was the mere fact it's one of the shortest Black Mirror episodes, thus the story became too shallow and characters weren't really fleshed out and given dimension, with Bo and Mazey Day herself being the only really interesting characters in the episode, Hector could've been fleshed out (a shame since it's Danny Ramirez and he really love to be in Black Mirror). The werewolf twist is divisive, but it's honestly not the most problematic part of the episode, especially given the purpose of it. - As for Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, I think you could've given Miley Cyrus credit for her performance as Ashley as she understood the character and most especially Ashley echoes Miley's own personal experience as a celebrity when she was working under Disney and being Hannah Montana. Miley Cyrus and Andrew Scott definitely had one of the best performances in Black Mirror season 5 and the show overall. It's a shame how season 5 turned out looking all 3 episodes as from what I've seen with 2 of the 3 episodes I've seen in season 5, it's clear that the depiction of technology was so shallow and came off too much of "tech is bad" and with Charlie Brooker recently voicing his frustration of people only perceiving Black Mirror as just a showing saying "tech is bad" when Black Mirror has always been about the human nature and society that the stories show our reflection as people and society, a black mirror. Because of season 5's reception and Brooker feeling frustrated with that perception of Black Mirror, it's clear and very understandable as to why season 6 turned out. - You may need to rethink of Joan is Awful a bit more as this particular episode was WAY TOO TIMELY, it may be similar to how you felt about Smithereens. Joan is Awful is a very eerie echo of the writers and actors' strike going on in Hollywood and studios' willingness to use AI to exploit celebrities. The studios even blatantly are willing to drive the creatives homeless, like they're saying them to "go fuck themselves" like how Streamberry told Salma Hayek to "go fuck herself". Again, rather timely and heavily relevant now

My personal favorites are The Entire History of You, Be Right Back, Shut Up and Dance, USS Callister, Hang the DJ, and Beyond the Sea

White Christmas was so disturbing it haunts me to this day. Scariest episode by far

I was so anxious waiting your rank on The Entire History of You, and I so agreed it deserves to be number one

In the episode, loch Henry, am I the only one who thought that she was going to write “forgive me” and was then stunned to read it as “for your film”?

List is very similar to mine except I have White Christmas at 1 and Entire History of You at 2. I put Black Museum a little higher and Be right back a little lower. Other than that our list would be almost identical.

White Christmas is still my no.1

San junipero makes me cry every time

I'd actually place San Junipero close to the very top, in part because I went in blind and was completely blown away by the twist. I'd also argue that the only watchable thing in Mazey Day was Zazie Beetz, and without her the episode would have been totally unwatchable.

I liked Crocodile. How she just went home with her chaos. I also liked The National Anthem; my Black Mirror screen saver. I loved Mazey Day's concept of weaponized cameras. Loch Henry went to another level. The entire History of You and Beyond the Sea, bored me to death, because it was so expected I mean common theme, but its amazing to see the kind of music that the world's hearts string to. Playtest,,,, Yeeez loved it. San Junipero made me feel.

1.Nose Dive 2.San Jun 3.History of you 4.Shut up and Dance 5.Striking Vipers 6. Playtest 7. White Bear 8. Black museum

My current top 3 episodes are "Nosedive," "Shut Up and Dance," and "Metalhead."

No way striking vipers was amazing 3:57

Welp, can't argue about taste, but saying beyond the sea was more enjoyable than Hated in the Nation, wow...Reaaaaaally can't see that. IMHO Hated in the Nation is extremely underrated. One of the best BM episodes for me, one of the few that had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Beyond the Sea? Meh. It was nice to see Aaron Paul, but 1h20 was waaaay to much for that story. Also love Hang the DJ. Such a wholesome episode. Lastly, IDK why people like the Entire History of You so much. I couldn't care less about the main character and his obsession with rewatching everything everytime and I found really funny when he discovered his wife cheating through this. It felt earned. Dude was so paranoid that finally the paranoia "paid" him in someway. But there was no one to cheer for, almost everyone was idiot and dumb. Thinking about the purpose of the episode I found Nosedive way more entertaining while conveying a really similar message.

Great review!

My top 5 episodes in no particular order are Shut up and dance, play test, white bear, nosedive and beyond the sea

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