Tao Jones posted:

I agree with you that Black Mirror works best when it explores human themes, but that's why Entire History of You fell flat for me. He had the intuition that his wife was cheating on him when he saw her at the party, and the rest of the story felt like a standard detective tale. The premise, though, that we all have magic boxes that can show other people the past, undermines the detective aspect -- I felt like anyone in that world who was wrongly accused would lose their temper and angrily replay their history with the person they were accused of cheating with to show their innocence. The opening sequence with the job interview suggests that these kind of "ethical reviews" are common enough, at least that a business and airport security can ask for them and not be objected to, so I don't think privacy concerns were much of a thing in this world. So it was an interesting bit of world-building, but as a human drama it didn't work for me.

e: Thinking about it, I feel a bit the same about White Bear. It was a good horror story, but the voyeuristic aspect of it doesn't seem like something real people would do.