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The Winner Is: Plaything
The best episode of Black Mirror in 2025 and in the 21st century is Plaything. Here is why.
Good Morning, girl!
Yeah, I know it’s been a month since the release. For some, the new episodes are water under the bridge, but I just got the time to go through the seventh series of Black Mirror. Well, now I have to stop binge-watching it because Plaything is a show-stopper.
Honestly, this one episode took me three hours to watch.
The episode is forty-six minutes long, but I thought that Charlie Brooker would hide the new episode in the original Bandersnatch series.
So I started to play Bandersnatch again. I figured that I have to go down the line where Colin is still alive.
It didn’t work, so then I thought maybe there is a hidden pathway.
So, yeah!
I was overthinking.
It’s funny, cuz I just paused the fourth episode to find Plaything. Yeah, the answer was right before me, and I looked past it because I wanted to find it instead of letting the pleasure find me. Classic.
A true sign that I’m impatient.
The problem was that I used Netflix in Hungarian mode, so the title was in Hungarian, and well, Hungarian translations can get funny. An example: Home…
