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'Black Mirror' used to feel like a distant dystopian future. Now we're living in it.

We are now squarely in the future we hoped would never come.

In the first episode of “ Black Mirror ’s” recently debuted seventh season, Amanda and Mike, played by Rashida Jones and Chris O’Dowd, are an enviably in love couple with a simple, happy life. Later, in a hospital waiting room, an immutably serene saleswoman played by Tracee Ellis Ross meets with Mike and offers to “give him time” with a new product by a company called RiverMind. Like all techno-dystopic episodes of “Black Mirror,” the narrative takes aim at how technology exposes and exploits our society’s ills, starting with the constantly moving goal post that is paying for streaming services.

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