10 Awesome Sci-Fi TV Twists You Never Saw Coming

10. Black Mirror - Our Innocent Heroine Is A Heartless Murderer

Now, TV Go Home creator/ all-round smartass and genre nerd Charlie Brooker’s anthology series has featured some incredible twists in its limited run—as well as a few diabolical stinkers. Let’s be honest here—The pivotal reveal of, for example, Shut Up and Dance’s ending isn’t clever, it’s just brutally bleak and mistakes sheer darkness for some sort of profundity and intelligence. Ditto Icelandic noir instalment Crocodile, which wastes a great location and premise as well as visiting director John Hillcoat on a grim and bitter climax.

So what’s the series doing on this list?

Well, when Black Mirror does twists right, by God does the show nail them. Just look at season 2 standout White Bear, which opens on an innocent woman inexplicably pursued by both murderous psychos and an eerie crowd of onlookers filming her ordeal and doing nothing to help her. What could possibly justify this horror?

Well, the fact that she’s a child murderer who is having her crimes re-enacted on her as karmic retribution would go a ways to explaining this torture. But the power of the episode comes not from this shocking revelation, but from its ability to trick viewers into empathizing with someone TV shows typically portray as irredeemable, leaving the viewer uncertain and a little sickly by the time it reaches its ending.