Netflix: 10 Original Horror Series To Binge This Halloween
3. Black Mirror
Horror in the style of its spiritual predecessor, The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror has proven a cultural phenomenon of an anthology series, with individual episodes tackling a different concept that mixes speculative science fiction and dark themes that are horrific in a different way, often coming too close to home or acting as warnings or questions about the world we live in or may one day see, or are simply similar enough to our own to give us pause.
Good horror and sci-fi often pull from real world issues to make them feel closer to home, and episodes such as The Prime Minister and the Pig, Nosedive, and Shut Up and Dance have major elements that exist in the world today, such as the strange allegations that former PM Cameron performed sexual acts with a pig's head, social credit being proposed to judge people's trustworthiness, and people watching you from your webcams without your knowledge or consent.
Not all Black Mirror episodes are bleak and terrifying, but many of them are, in ways both straightforward (such as the Playtest episode with the horror game) and conceptually terrifying (such as... well, most of them), and all of them worth the watch.