Black Mirror is back, and it's darker, weirder, and more painfully relevant than ever. Season 7 of Charlie Brooker’s twisted tech anthology serves up six new cautionary tales, each one diving headfirst into our tangled relationship with innovation, memory, identity, and morality. From digital afterlives to AI-fueled nostalgia, this season blends genre experimentation with that signature Black Mirror unease.

We’ve watched them all (twice), and now it’s time to rank them from best to worst. Here are our favourite episodes of Black Mirror Season 7!

1- Common People

When a medical emergency leaves schoolteacher Amanda fighting for her life, desperate husband Mike signs her up for Rivermind, a high-tech system that will keep her alive but at a cost.

Cast: Chris O'Dowd - Rashida Jones

2- Eulogy

An innovative system that enables users to literally step into photographic memories of the past leads a lonely man to re-examine a heartbreaking period in his life.

Cast: Paul Giamatti - Patsy Ferran

3- Hotel Reverie

Hollywood A-list actor Brandy Friday is thrown into an unusually immersive high-tech remake of a vintage romantic movie. She’s got to stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home.

Cast: Emma Corrin - Issa Rae - Awkwafina - Harriet Walter

4- Bête Noire

Maria is a high-flying development executive at a chocolate company. Everything is going well for her until someone she hasn’t seen since school, a woman named Verity, shows up for a focus group tasting session. It could be the chance for a heartfelt reunion, except there’s something very odd about Verity, and Maria seems to be the only person who notices.

Cast: Siena Kelly - Rosy McEwen - Michael Workeye

5- Plaything

An eccentric loner named Cameron, who harbours an obsession with a mysterious 1990s video game, is arrested in connection with a grisly cold case, and his interrogation soon goes to places the police weren’t expecting.

Cast: Peter Capaldi - Lewis Gribben - James Nelson-Joyce - Michele Austin - Will Poulter - Asim Chaudhry

6- USS Callister: Into Infinity

Robert Daly is dead, but now the crew of the USS Callister, led by Captain Nanette Cole, are stranded in an infinite virtual universe, fighting for survival against 30 million players.

Cast: Cristin Milioti - Jimmi Simpson - Billy Magnussen