Karl is meanwhile adrift in a dating scene that offers everything aside from a real emotional connection. With his energies deployed elsewhere Danny is, however, too listless and detached to play his part. Unable to tear themselves away from the video game, and their secret life there, it occurs to Danny and Karl that the real illusion is their day to day existence in the real world. But can their friendship withstand this sudden left turn? And will it spell game over for Danny and taken-for-granted wife Theo (Nicole Beharie)? They’re soon putting Striking Vipers to uses for which its designers (presumably) never intended. However, an unexpected opportunity to escape the boredom arises when long-lost best pal Karl (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II from Aquaman) turns up at Danny’s birthday barbecue with a virtual reality edition of their favourite Street Fighter-style video game. He is a father and husband quietly sinking beneath the waves of his bland life. That’s despite a top-notch cast, the return of a favourite Black Mirror director and the fact that last Christmas’s excellent “choose your own adventure” special, Bandersnatch, found Brooker firing on all dystopian cylinders.Īnthony Mackie, aka Falcon from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (aka the new Captain America), ditches his cape to play frustrated suburbanite Danny. Striking Vipers is Black Mirror with phasers set to humdrum. On the evidence of this glitchy meditation on love and technology his circuits could do with recharging.
But all these years on from its debut on Channel 4 Black Mirror is still essentially the vision of one person: series creator and writer Charlie Brooker. Netflix stumps up the Hollywood budgets and helps secure the A-List talent.
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