Black Mirror Wishes You a Happy New Year (But Will It Be Horrific Instead?)

See Netflix's twisted year-end video for Season 4

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“It’s hard to imagine a bright future, but we must.”

New Year’s is a time for looking forward, and Netflix does so with trepidation—including the line above—in a new campaign for Black Mirror, whose fourth season just rolled out on the streaming service yesterday.

Through its first three seasons, the sci-fi anthology series has taken a notoriously grim view of technological achievement—seeing any new tools invented by humans primarily through the lens of how quickly they are weaponized.

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