‘USS Callister’ is the standout of the new Black Mirror season 4 episodes, but not because it does a killer spoof on Star Trek and star Jesse Plemons does a strong riff on William Shattner’s James T. Kirk. Instead, it’s because the episode flips the script on its own premise multiple times, until it begins to flip the script on the usual Black Mirror format, upending and expanding upon what viewers have come to expect from the series.
Perhaps one of the most ambitious episodes of Charlie Brooker’s technophobic nightmare, ‘USS Callister’ is a genre mash-up that’s part Star Trek, part Galaxy Quest, and part thriller. It runs longer ...
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December 29, 2017 at 08:22AM
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