I do not know if people have heard this or not, but the British series of Anthology "Black Mirror" is strongly inspired by the American Anthology series in the 1960s The Twilight Zone. Of course, the former may not have his own creator to stand twice an episode to tell how the latter (Something rod Serling actually hated to do it), but it is still easy to see the connection between the two. Both show use their speculative one -off premises to explore the darker sides of the human psyche, have a different team every episode (Well, almost in the case of a "black mirror"), and are not afraid to break things in a boomer nota.

It is therefore no surprise that the "white bear", absurdly dark season 2 episode of the "Black Mirror", was at least partially inspired by a "judgment night", a dark season 1 episode of the "Twilight Zone". They are different enough that most viewers will not notice, but there is undoubtedly a ton of overlap in their threads and plot.

To step down, the "white bear" is an episode for a woman who wakes up with amnesia. She finds herself in a world where some people are mentally deteriorating, while others have turned into lifeless zombies attached to their phones. After spending most of the episode trying to survive, frustrated by people who stand with their phones instead of helping, she reveals that this is all that (a twist that was a last -minute supplement on the episode scenario). In reality, it is in a special kind of prison, and is now tortured in a way that poetically responds to the crime she has committed.

A "Verdict Night", meanwhile, is an episode of an amnesia guy on a British passenger ship in 1942. Then, he continues to panic when he realizes that the ship will be bombarded by German U-Mags, just to realize that he is, literally, in hell. Even when he was alive, he was a U-ship captain, who was tormented by the British passenger ship during World War II. As such, his divine punishment is that he is forced to revive his war crime from the perspective of passengers every night, in a loop that continues for the whole eternity.

It is difficult to say which of these episodes is darker. At first glance, the "white bear" seems to be cruel, just because her protagonist, Victoria (Lenora Crychlow), is immediately cute. Before the episode extracted the rug and reveals what she did, every viewer feels bad for Victoria and roots. Meanwhile, "Night Judgment" is led by Carl Lancer (Nehemiah Nehemph) is a little harder to love. He is a terrible conversation and at the time he mentions that he was born in Frankfurt, it becomes quite easy for most viewers to find out what is happening.

Where the "twilight zone" opens the black mirror "here is a pure scale of the punishment. Victoria can most bother for a lifetime, while Lancer is explicitly tormented for eternity. To make things darker is the fact that Lancer is punished by God himself, or at least some kind of omnipresion. For him in a row. We are not intended to be terrible only from what Victoria did; We should also be terrible than what people are doing now.

Overall, I think the "black mirror" has a more interesting download of the premise because it leaves the audience to think more about the nature of justice and the importance of memory of one's identity. "The Day of the verdict", on the other hand, leaves a little ambiguity as to whether Lancer deserves his fate-the episode even involves a scene with him before the death where he boasts that he is evil and spits in the face of God. But the "white bear" allows you to only learn about Victoria's crimes second -hand; If you want to believe it is innocent (or, at least, not as relentless as it is claimed), the "Black Mirror" gives you room to do just that. "The Night of the verdict" may have a nicer narrative, but the messy implications of the "white bear" are far more attractive.