Black Mirror-esque
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Black Mirror + -esque.
Adjective
[edit]Black Mirror-esque or Black Mirror-esque (comparative more Black Mirror-esque, superlative most Black Mirror-esque)
- Resembling or characteristic of Black Mirror, a British anthology television series depicting dystopian futures featuring advanced technology.
- 2020 October 5, Adrian Horton, “Soulmates review: Black Mirror-esque series is intriguing but hollow”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 September 2025:
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- 2024, Ashumi Shah, The Mediaverse and Speculative Fiction Television: Understanding Speculative TV Fandoms, Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Springer, →ISBN, page 231:
- The fan community on Reddit, for example, is mainly centred on episode discussions and speculation on the technologies that are featured on the show or technologies that exist and seem Black Mirror-esque.
- 2025 August 11, Lily Ford, “Alex Lawther Talks ‘Alien: Earth,’ a “Godfather-ly” Ridley Scott and ‘Black Mirror’-Esque Dread: “What’s Scarier: Xenomorphs or Trillionaires?””, in The Hollywood Reporter[2], Los Angeles, C.A.: Eldridge Industries, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2025:
- He describes Scott’s “godfather-ly” presence, needing “ramen and a hot bath” after a long day of shooting on the practical effect-heavy set and the Black Mirror-esque dread that pits the threats of an extraterrestrial past and technological future against each other: […]