More new Black Mirror episodes may have spread the discontent around and allowed viewers to pick favorites, but with a trio to choose from it’s hard to be distracted from the toothlessness that pervades all three.
With that toothlessness comes too few questions about technology instead of the usual deluge; without those questions it seems that Black Mirror has lost its edge.
It’s weird to feel so poorly about three arguably good episodes of television, but the short length of Season 5 only serves to highlight the deficiencies of the season as a whole.