Looking in the Black Mirror

Black Mirror, created and written by Charlie Brooker, is a show that was recommended to me many times and was described as a modern Twilight Zone. Since it was so heavily recommended, I took some time to watch the first episode of season four, titled USS Callister, directed by Toby Haynes. In this episode, Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti) starts working for Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons) to help work on his company's game called Infinity, but ends up stuck in Daly's private copy of the game aboard his ship because Daly took the DNA off a coffee lid she drank from and added her to his game. Her and the rest of the office employees are stuck on Daly's ship and they try and figure out a way to escape.

The costumes for all the characters in all the settings are great. The costumes that are worn aboard the USS Callister are especially great with the Star Trek allusion that is presented throughout the whole episode. The way characters act in different settings are amazing, too. At work Daly is a hesitant man who seems to second-guess himself alot and lets the other co-founder James Walton (Jimmi Simpson) step all over him, but on the ship Daly is controlling, assertive, and feared.

Many people see this episode as a way to express what is happening currently in Hollywood, particularly expressing the Harvey Weinstein allegations. On Daly's ship, the crew has to do everything Daly says or they face brutal punishment, expressing how Weinstein would blacklist actresses who wouldn't do what he wanted.