So, Black Mirror Cracked started with Series 4 on Netflix, then jumped up the podcast charts. So we went back to the original run on Channel 4... Essentially, we recorded out of order from the show, so now we've re-ordered by episode! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this deep dive episode, we will take you on a mind bending journey. Host James Ide welcomes Dr. David Kyle Johnson on the podcast to discuss philosophy and its links to Black Mirror. The brain burning conversation covers a lot of ground across Netflix's Black Mirror - as well as light subjects such as free will, quantum physics and parallel realities.   And a persuasive argument for why we might all be living in a simulation... Dr. Johnson's new book Black Mirror & Philosophy:...

It's all change as former guest, James Ide, slides into the host's chair. Starting nice and easy, his first task is Bandersnatch, the interactive Black Mirror movie from Netflix with a few million permutations... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

For an episode that came so close not happening, it was a perfect storm of Black Mirror, celebrity and a superstar. Host James is joined by Netflix expert Lewis Knight and Miley super-fan Vicki Newman. Ashley 2 is on the loose and not minding her tongue - but should she? Charlie Brooker does Scoobie-Doo for a romp in La La Land... For more Black Mirror stuff, follow our Twitter @BlackMirrorCrrr, join the conversation in our Facebook group or read more...

Back to Britain, as a hostage situation goes global... Andrew Scott and Topher Grace lead Season 5's Smithereens and host James and Producer Dan debate whether Black Mirror needs the twists after all, elements of farce at play... and what is Billy Bauer's hair is doing?! For more Black Mirror stuff, follow our Twitter @BlackMirrorCrrr, join the conversation in our Facebook group or read more at mirror.co.uk/blackmirror  Black Mirror Cracked is hosted by James Ide and produced by Daniel...

Anthony Mackie joins the Black Mirror multiverse and it's the first time we have to tag an episode 'explicit'. Video games, VR and new sexual frontiers align in the Season 5 opener. Host James Ide chats with guest Dom Peppiatt about sex, identity and the new frontier that technology brings... and the risks that go with it. For more Black Mirror stuff, follow our Twitter @BlackMirrorCrrr, join the conversation in our Facebook group or read more at mirror.co.uk/blackmirror  Black Mirror...

Black Mirror may have started in 2011, but 2017 is when Black Mirror Cracked started - covering all six episodes as they dropped on Netflix. Join superfans Suchandrika and Ryan as they digest and discuss the new episodes, plus interviews with the cast and showrunners Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.

We tease Black Mirror's longest season yet and go behind the scenes of San Junipero...

So, more Black Mirror - more cracking! Superfans and cast from the show take time to unpack the dark anthology TV series...

"How the devil are ya?" He may be one of the stars of Black Mirrror: Bandersnatch, but actor Craig Parkinson hosts his own podcast where he just has a chat. Host James sits down over a cuppa with Craig Parkinson to chat all things Black Mirror, not watching Bandersnatch and the conversational Two Shot Podcast. And like a movie, stay tuned until the end...

It’s a press tour in reverse, as the creators of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch promote the movie after its release! James talks with Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones about the Netflix interactive hit, confirming the Black Mirror multiverse theory, how Bandersnatch was made and trying to figure out exactly what Sugar Puffs are… Listen to our exclusive mini episode for your chance to win a signed copy of Inside Black Mirror and a selection of retro TuckerSoft posters. For more Black Mirror...

It's time to go further down the Black Mirror rabbit hole than ever before! December 28th saw the release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch - an interactive experience from Netflix. Join host James Ide chatting with Producer Dan, who has spent far too long trying to save Stefan from Charlie Brooker. 80's nostalgia, game theory versus audience theory, and one liners about mince beef collide as Black Mirror Cracked goes hunting for the fabled Bandersnatch. James and Dan review the new...

It's been a whole year since our last Black Mirror fix, but could that all be about to change? Fans are wildly speculating that a Black Mirror feature length movie could be about to drop: Bandersnatch! Secretive as ever, not much is known about the new feature and Netflix are remaining tight lipped about when it might drop. A quickly deleted Twitter post reckons Black Mirror: Bandersnatch could be dropping onto the streaming site shortly. Is it an 1980's video game themed outing for...

So here it is, the last episode of Black Mirror Cracked for a while, and we've saved your favourite until last - yes, it's San Junipero! The neon-lit 80s tale of two women falling in love that is not - of course - all that it seems.  Actor Gavin Stenhouse (@gavinstenhouse) who plays lovelorn Wes, joins the pod to talk about working on the most beloved (and surprising) of Black Mirror instalments.  He was also there with the cast, Charlie Brooker and co when they won the series' first two...

The episode known as 'the Jon Hamm one' before its much-anticipated debut in December 2014, White Christmas is a collection of Black Mirror lasts and firsts. It's the last of the Channel 4 series, going out well before the news that Netflix would pick up the show. It's the first episode to have a huge American star at its centre; to introduce cookies; and to have a three-part story structure. Joining the pod to discuss his time working on set is actor Rasmus Hardiker (@RasmusHardiker),...

Aldis Hodge (@AldisHodge) joins the podcast to talk about Jack, Carrie, That Monkey and all things Black Museum.  A Black Mirror fan before he was sent the script, Hodge jumped at the chance to be part of the show. There's a light-hearted way to look at the episode: Rolo Haynes's ridiculous theatricality, Jack's new girlfriend pinning the monkey up against the wall, "our hands" [groan].  Black Museum also tackles racial politics in Trump's America: a tough subject, but an absolutely...

Daniel Lapaine brings 'La Pain' to this episode of the pod for an exclusive - and raucous - interview about his work on Black Mirror.  Lapaine - who shot to fame as a dreamy swimmer in 1994 Australian comedy Muriel's Wedding - has a very special place in the Black Mirror universe. He's in not just one, but two episodes. He makes a cameo appearance at the start of Season 1's The Entire History of You, on the interview panel sizing up Liam (Toby Kebbell). He returns to the show to take...

Wyatt Russell, who plays main character Cooper Redfield, Skypes into the podcast from LA to talk all things Playtest - and also about his favourite episode, the first one he ever saw. Hear what it was like to act out all those scenes in the house of horrors alone, how he subtly changed his character and what he thinks the ending of the episode really means. -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and...

It's the gamer one! With Charlie Brooker's background as a video games journalist, it was only a matter of time before we got the horror gaming episode. Wyatt Russell plays Cooper Redfield, a name that'll sound eerily familiar to old-school gamers. To do the episode justice, we've got Daily Mirror gaming experts JC Suttun (@HandleMaverick) and James Ide (@Jymography) in the studio to chase all the many, many gaming references in the episode, look at the how horror games have been covered...

Even this podcast gets ratings! Why don't you rate, review and subscribe to Black Mirror Cracked...? Nosedive reflects so much of our world back to us, that we can never escape that eerie feeling while watching it, even though Lacie Pound's (Bryce Dallas Howard) sweet pastel surroundings seem harmless. Showbiz journalist Vicki Newman (@Vicki_Mirror) joins the pod to talk about celebrity culture, Instagram likes and Snapchat streaks. When everything's a performance, a bit of trolling can...

Computer games, warfare, skull implants, a rapidly-thinning line between dreams and reality, plus... are those zombies?! Season 3's Men Against Fire could not be more relevant today, with its exploration of how propaganda made real can help soldiers carry out their duties to kill. Even when those duties could later return to haunt and utterly destroy them. Mirror Online games writer and picture researcher, James Ide, returns to the podcast to help unpack an episode that looks a though it...

Journalists Jo-Anne Rowney and Kyle O'Sullivan carry on from their discussion of White Bear to analyse Season 3's Shut Up and Dance. The episodes both drill down into crime, punishment and vigilante justice. They also toy with the audience, using our natural human need to identify with the protagonist against us. It's all about perspective, like news-writing.  Does Kenny deserve his most-likely grim fate? Does Hector deserve his? And who is judging them?  -- Welcome to Black...

Let's dive into Black Mirror Season 3, where the show moved from Channel 4 to Netflix. Reddit was quick to pick up on how the images of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sitting in Congressional Hearings, thanks to the Cambridge Analytica investigation, echoed scenes of DCI Karin Parke (Kelly McDonald) giving evidence to a Parliamentary committee in this episode. Mirror Tech's (@MirrorTech) Future File podcast team, Jeff Parsons (@jparsons989) and Shivali Best (@shivalibest), join us to talk...

A recurring theme among all the actors interviewed for this podcast is a deep love for the acting masterclass that is Be Right Back. Hayley Atwell (Martha) and Domhnall Gleeson (Ash) play out the saddest, most delicate two-hander in the middle of a rural nowhere. Martha gets what everyone broken by sharp new grief desperately wants: the loved one resurrected. Technology steps in to make that not quite happen, and the result is a perfect mix of joy and horror. The episode shares a...