If ‘Black Mirror’ Needs Plot Ideas For Season Five, Twitter Has Some Unsettling Pitches

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Did you spend your New Year’s holiday weekend binge watching the entire new season of Netflix’s disturbingly prescient, dystopian sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror? If so, you probably had a pretty unsettling weekend. Or you may have spent the whole first episode, “USS Callister”, wondering — like this person did — if Jesse Plemons was was Matt Damon in prosthetics. Or perhaps you might have been wondering, what are they going to do for season five? Luckily, Twitter already has some plot suggestions.

Some Twitter users pitched ideas that had sort of already been realized by Her, The Truman Show, and a ’90s Disney movie (Directed by LeVar Burton! Starring Katey Sagal!) that we need in our lives immediately:

https://twitter.com/calmad9/status/938775421386182658
https://twitter.com/dino_kiddo/status/947390397722103808
https://twitter.com/jobforaheffa/status/948408222599102464

Others pitched episodes we could really see show runner Charlie Brooker giving the green light to:

https://twitter.com/rrahiho/status/948385493959495680

Some people really phoned it in:

Others pointed out that the existential hellscape of our current reality is already enough of a Black Mirror episode:

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/948020170890629120
https://twitter.com/AnnaRussett/status/948384908594024448
https://twitter.com/ChrisFedler/status/948443507055734786

Well, that was a bummer. Maybe these next pitches will be more cheerful? (SPOILER: it’s Black Mirror, so no, they won’t be more cheerful. Also, smartphone games are hijacking your microphone to gather commodifiable data on you and Comcast is probably going to kidnap your family until you like them on Facebook, or something.)

https://twitter.com/dumbfoundead/status/947234371462762496

https://twitter.com/JackedYoTweets/status/948431626647867393

(Hat tip to Mashable, Decider, and Twitter)

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