If ‘Black Mirror’ Needs Plot Ideas For Season Five, Twitter Has Some Unsettling Pitches

Did you spend your New Year’s holiday weekend binge watching the entire new season of Netflix’s disturbingly prescient, dystopian sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror If so, you probably had a pretty unsettling weekend. Or you may have spent the whole first episode, “USS Callister”, wondering — like this person did — if Jesse Plemons was was Matt Damon in prosthetics. Or perhaps you might have been wondering, what are they going to do for season five Luckily, Twitter already has some plot suggestions.

Some Twitter users pitched ideas that had sort of already been realized by Her, The Truman Show, and a ’90s Disney movie (Directed by LeVar Burton! Starring Katey Sagal!) that we need in our lives immediately:

— caleb (@calmad9) December 7, 2017

Black Mirror episode idea:

A girl finds out she is living in a simulation, but if she does anything to show she knows she will be shut down, so she has to live with the fact that all her loved ones aren't real and that her life has been meaningless.

— dino kiddo (@dino_kiddo) December 31, 2017

best Black Mirror episode pic.twitter.com/m1RXhhc3nI

— trash (@jobforaheffa) January 3, 2018

Others pitched episodes we could really see show runner Charlie Brooker giving the green light to:

— wyatt tall (@comfortfood) December 30, 2017

black mirror writers after a 90 minute pitch: but………it’s a simulation

— levi (@leviwrfel) January 3, 2018

A black mirror episode where all your sad late night tweets can’t be deleted and people ask you about them in person the next day

— new account who this (@rrahiho) January 3, 2018

Terrifying #BlackMirror episode idea: a self-driving car that doesn’t let you change the satellite radio from the Country music channel.

— ..And Justin For All (@Staggfilms) December 30, 2017

Black Mirror: What if Instagram had a knife

— Banned from Tron (@Alldogsaredead) January 3, 2018

Some people really phoned it in:

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh so there’s like this duuuude and he likeeeeeee never looks up from his phoneeeeeee and it’s likeeeeeeee his life is just likeeeeeeee going by and he’s likeeeeee missing out then he dies and the phone is still alive

— where the fuck is a snakes dick (@jckgnn) December 30, 2017

Others pointed out that the existential hellscape of our current reality is already enough of a Black Mirror episode:

Black Mirror Jan 2: US President threatens nuclear war on social media with penis metaphor

— Drew Schnoebelen (@Dschnoeb) January 3, 2018

black mirror: what if..social media. was bad this woman takes photos of food for likes!

reality: whats up youtube just found a dead body going to stab it a few times and see what happens lol. make sure to sub and let me know what you think in the comments haha *dabs*

— leon (@leyawn) January 2, 2018

omg u guys who has seen the latest black mirror its the one where the russian govt uses social media to hack the US election & elects a reality tv star w a huge ego as the president! he tweets and threatens the leader of north korea and then that actually prompts a nuclear war

— Anna Russett (@AnnaRussett) January 3, 2018

2017 was just a Black Mirror episode

— Kamokila (@ChrisFedler) January 3, 2018

If “president starts war with tweet” was a Black Mirror plot we’d be like “dude, it’s season 4, try harder”

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) January 3, 2018

Well, that was a bummer. Maybe these next pitches will be more cheerful (SPOILER: it’s Black Mirror, so no, they won’t be more cheerful. Also, smartphone games are hijacking your microphone to gather commodifiable data on you and Comcast is probably going to kidnap your family until you like them on Facebook, or something.)

— dummies (@dumbfoundead) December 30, 2017

Latest Black Mirror Pitch: An episode about watching a Black Mirror episode with a family member when your home for the holidays and having to explain it to them because they keep asking questions.

— NeoUrbanism (@Protagonist45) December 29, 2017

Black Mirror (2017) pic.twitter.com/Wkfk3bKeER

— The Don (@JackedYoTweets) January 3, 2018

(Hat tip to Mashable, Decider, and Twitter)

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