Inside Black Mirror

by Charlie Brooker

By the time I’d finished with it, a lot of people thought I was utterly mentally ill, because I filled it with this hidden celebration of six years of Black Mirror. As you went into reception, I reused the phones from Nosedive as the museum guide devices. Along the corridor, a wall of screens showed historical footage of murderers, including the couple from White Bear. There was a print on the wall of Playtest‘s Harlech House and a dummy wearing the dress from San Junipero. Then there were the plaster-cast faces of the crew, plus military gear from Men Against Fire. Inside the museum, the smaller cabinets in the middle of the room included Playtest mushrooms, the bath from Crocodile, the scanning device from USS Callister and the White Christmas cookie-egg and headgear. One wall display had the beds from Men Against Fire with the dead bodies from Metalhead, in a set that looked like the cabin from White Christmas complete with bird-clock. We had Domhnall Gleeson’s body from Be Right Back in a padded cell. And then there was a bloated pig from Metalhead, next to a hanging man which was a recreation of the set from The National Anthem. The pig was eating sweets that Bella drops on the robot’s head in Metalhead. To be honest, I just went fucking mad.