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Title: Changes - part one (prologue) Word count: ±1750 words Summary “Changes”: Huntress Zoë Sullivan (OFC) crosses paths and swords with the Winchesters, when the brothers stumble on a case that she’s already working. When complications arise, they are forced to work as a team. Summary part one: Disaster hits the Sullivans, devastating loss ripping the seemingly perfect family apart. The oldest daughter, Abigail, fights to survive the demon attack, all while trying to save her possessed sister. Episode warnings: Dark! NSFW, 18+ only! Angst, gore, violence, character death. Description of blood, injury and medical procedures. Demon possession, supernatural creatures/entities. Smut, swearing, alcohol use/addiction. Kidnapping, mentions of torture and murder, illegal/criminal practices. Mentions of nightmares and flashbacks. Music: Child In Time - Deep Purple Author’s note: The maiden voyage of Supernatural: The Sullivan Series, and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. There are quite a few people I want to thank. @coffee-obsessed-writer, @girl-with-a-fandom-fettish, @winchest09, thank you for helping me with this story and for taking it to a higher level. Everyone who encouraged me to go for it, you are awesome!

Supernatural: the Sullivan Series Masterlist 01x01 “Changes” Masterlist

Los Angeles, California July 21st, 2001

Screams. Horrific, tormenting screams. The kind that causes blood to run cold and hair on the back of the neck to stand up. Desperate cries for help, coming from a broken soul, barely a woman, but certainly not a child anymore, especially not after today. But it isn’t just the pained voice that echoes through the mansion in Brentwood, on the west side of the City of Angels. There are no angels here. On the contrary: the sounds mixing with the anguished voice, is one that comes from the deepest foundations of Hell. “Abi! Where are you?!” The call-out is gut-wrenching, and Abigail Sullivan presses her mouth closed firmly, biting on her bottom lip in order not to answer her little sister. She has her back against the French doors between the dining room and the kitchen, a line of salt on the marble floor connecting the frames. The voice doesn’t sound like Zoë’s. She’s speaking in tongues, pure evil tainting her speech. The battle inside her own body is one she’s destined to lose, but man, she is putting up one hell of a fight. Demon possession is usually pretty straight forward. Black smoke, black eyes, and the host is all but a marionette. It’s rare that someone is able to break through the solid concrete walls that captivate them, but apparently Zoë is giving the bastard some serious competition. Abigail sniffles. That’s my girl.

Trying to calm herself, the older sister leans her head back against the polished wood, listening to the raging demon. She has to fix this. She has to find a way to expel that thing. This family has lost enough.

Determined, Abigail moves towards the kitchen cabinets, opening them and looking for anything that could be useful. She clears the storage area under the double sink and pulls up the lid over a secret compartment, exposing a 9mm, several knives, and jars that contain ingredients for basic spell work. Among the items is a flask of Holy water, which she shoves down the front pocket of her jeans. She doesn’t bother to take the handgun or the weapons; she would rather die than have to shoot her own flesh and blood. A bullet or a knife wouldn’t do a demon harm anyway, so instead, she takes a frying pan. It won’t kill anyone, but at least it will slow the son of a bitch down.

“Oh, Abi…” Abigail freezes. The trace of Zoë that was audible a minute ago is gone now. It’s the demon who is taunting her, its voice amused, almost singing. “We used to play this game all the time when we were little, remember?” the dark voice muses. “You are not my sister, you sick fucker!” she barks back, as she approaches the doors. “Oh, c’mon. Don’t be cruel; humor me,” the demon tsks. “Come out, come out, wherever you are.”

Abigail takes a deep breath and closes her eyes, listening to the sounds in the other room as she leans against the door again. Her heart is beating out of her chest, as if it seems to realize it might stop moments from now. The thing is waiting, and it will rip her apart once it gets the chance. She has to get to the office; it’s her only chance for survival. Dad’s journal and address book might be a way of sending out an S.O.S. signal. There’s a devil’s trap under the circular carpet at the entrance too. If she can capture the demon, they might live another day. Both her and Zo. With her weapon in her left hand and Holy water in her right, the older Sullivan sister swallows thickly, fearing for her life. The brave young woman takes another second to collect herself. and prepare for what is on the other side. Senses heightened, she waits for the footsteps to pass. 3… 2… 1…

With a fierce kick, Abigail slams the French door into the intruder’s face, giving herself a small window to make a break for the rotating stairway. With panicked breath, she conquers three risers with each stride, pulling herself up by the guard rail. She almost makes it to the second floor, before a force that defies physics pulls her from her feet and smashes her into the wall. Plaster crumbles on top of her when she hits the ground halfway down the staircase, a jolt of pain cutting through her hip when she lands on the edge of one of the steps.

Biting down a cry, she pulls herself together while retrieving the Holy water from her pocket, frantically screwing off the cap. Just in time, because the demon that has nested in her little sister’s body, towers over her, a chilling laugh that is anything but human erupting from Zoë’s throat. Blood has smudged her summer dress, dark red sprayed across her chest and neck. The expression distorts the twenty-one year old’s gentle features beyond recognition and her eyes fade to black. “Hello, sis,” the demon coos. Abigail’s lip twitches angrily, opposite of the pain in her teary eyes. “Get out of her, you fucking bastard!”

She throws the contents of the silver flask into the demon’s face, exposed skin sizzling when it comes in contact with the fluid. It staggers back, hands going for its face as it screeches in agony. Abigail knows this might be the only opportunity she will get and doesn’t waste a second. As fast as her feet can carry her, she gets up, ignoring the ache in her side, and hastens up the stairs. This time she does make it to the corridor, dashing towards the office at the far end. She is flanked by walls painted in crimson handprints, puddles of blood staining the polished wooden floors. As she passes the master bedroom, she doesn’t glance inside, not wanting to carve even deeper scars into her heart, but the image of the massacre pushes its way to the foreground anyway. She can’t afford to slow down, though, because she can feel the temperature of the warm Californian home drop at least twenty degrees in a matter of seconds.

With her fingers still clamped around the handle of the frying pan, she swings on pure gut, her hunter instincts - which she buried not so long ago - kicking in. The flat surface of the pan hits her demon-infested sister square across the jaw, breaking the skin, and for a moment Abigail feels guilty for hurting her sibling. Drastic measures; it’s all about survival now. Not daring to look over her shoulder, Abigail rushes into her father’s office, able to tell by the sound of firm footsteps that she’s mere inches from getting tackled. The demon is right on her tail, but when the dark entity is about to cross the room, it runs into an invisible barrier. Confused and frustrated, the creature tries again, without result. Then it scoffs, the mimic so different from Zoë’s. “Let me guess.” The demon tilts its head, staring down the other Sullivan sister. “There’s a trap underneath this ugly rug, isn’t there?” “Good luck getting out of that one,” Abigail returns, a trace of victory pulling at the corner of her mouth. “Oh, I don’t need to,” the demon chuckles, as it begins to stroll along the edge of the cage. “Seems like the only way out is through this door behind me.” Trying to mask the shake in her limbs from anxiety, Abigail sits down in her dad’s leather office chair, rolling closer to the desk. “We’re on the second floor. I’ve done bigger drops.” “I bet you did. You’re quite the hunter, aren’t ya? You’ve sent many of my kind back to the basement.” Bitter, the demon narrows its eyes, glaring at her. “I’m one of the best,” Abigail counters, before she pulls out a drawer and takes out a black leather journal. “Are you?” the evil creature questions. “Are you really going to leave poor little Zo all alone?”

The older Sullivan sister tries to ignore the words, but she feels the sharp sting anyway. Focusing on the task at hand, she leafs through the notes in search of a number. “She’s awake in here, y’know?” Abigail stops. “She’s crying hysterically, begging you not to abandon her,” the demon elaborates, clearly enjoying the sight of the hunter crumbling. “Begging me not to rip you to shreds and decorate the chandeliers with your intestines.” “Shut the fuck up,” Zoë’s sister warns, snapping her fiery eyes at the creature. But the demon doesn’t yield. It has both ladies right where it wants them. “Let’s face facts here: you’re as trapped as I am. You’re not gonna leave your only family. And you don’t have what it takes to exorcise me. Not without killing her.” “Maybe I don’t,” Abigail agrees, picking up the phone on the desk. “But I can call the cavalry.”

Her finger has stopped at two initials, scribbled down on one of the first pages by her Dad. He never wrote down hunters’ names, not wanting to expose them, should the book fall into the wrong hands. Several numbers of old burner phones are crossed out, but the last one isn’t. It’s the number Abigail dials. Without giving the demon the satisfaction of witnessing her despair, she prays for the call to go through. The phone rings three times, four times, causing her to swallow apprehensively. Goddamnit, pick up the phone. “Hello?” A sigh of relief slips from her lips. “It’s Abi. I need you to drop everything and get to L.A. as fast as possible.” “What’s going on?” “It’s my sister, Zo, she’s–”

She glances over the desk, watching the person in question staring back. For a second, Zoë seems to be fine: smiling eyes, bright and full of life. Like nothing happened, like their lives are exactly the way they were an hour ago: carefree, peaceful, optimistic. No tears on their faces, no blood on their hands. But then her Zoë’s mouth pulls into a smirk, a smirk that isn’t hers. Her baby sister laughs then, the sound of several dark voices erupting from her throat. Her brown eyes flick to black and little Zo is gone. Goosebumps run up Abigail’s arm and settles in the back of her neck, tears threatening to come down her cheeks. Abigail tries to compose herself, making sure the words will come out steady when she speaks again. But watching the definition of evil taking full advantage of the person who occupies such a huge space in her heart, is crippling. Acknowledging her family will never be the same again causes her voice to waver. “She’s possessed, John.”

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We ranked every episode of ‘Black Mirror’ based on how bleak it is

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Warning: This storycontains spoilers for every Black Mirror episode ever.

Black Mirror is known worldwide as spooky, scary, and bluntly cynical. Who among us doesn’t have a friend who keeps their distance from the show lest they spiral into existential dread? Fresh from the new season on Netflix, we decided to figure out just how despondent this show is and ranked the episode based on that.

Now, since we like to do things scientifically here at Mashable, we’ve come up with a simple rubric to determine how pessimistic these episodes are.

How depressing is it? (0 = Happy happy sunshine, 5 = bleak af) Technology will destroy us (0 = they won’t, 5 = they definitely will) We will destroy ourselves (0 = we won’t, 5 = we definitely will)

Here we go.

SEE ALSO: ‘Black Mirror’ Season 4 confirms a long-running fan theory

19. Hang the D.J.

Season 4, episode 4

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Frank and Amy are set up on a date by “the System,” a highly sophisticated algorithm that’s guaranteed to pair people with their soul mates. The catch is that you know a relationship’s expiration date within moments of meeting the person, but you have to spend the requisite time together regardless. Though they’re only given 12 hours at first, Frank and Amy can’t stop thinking about each other and wondering if the System really works – so they hang it all and run away together.

How depressing is it? 0. It is 99.8 percent happy. Technology will destroy us: 0. It might…save us? We will destroy ourselves: 0. Not this time! Total: 0

18. San Junipero

Season 3, episode 4

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Love wins! It wins Emmys too with the story of Yorkie and Kelly, who fall in love in a simulated reality that reunites them in different eras while they’re actually in their dying days of old age. When Yorkie asks Kelly to stay with her, to live forever in this virtual reality, Kelly has to think about everything else that was part of her life, including her family – but in the end, it’s them versus the world, and they conquer it.

How depressing is it? 1. Only because Kelly doesn’t get to be with her family. ONE POINT. Technology will destroy us: 0. It might have some good in it yet. We will destroy ourselves: 0. Total: 1

17. U.S.S. Callister

Season 4, episode 1

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How depressing is it? 1. Most of the Callister crew makes it through the wormhole, even if they are divorced from their physical forms in the outside world, but poor Walton is burning for eternity. Technology will destroy us: 1. Possibly, in the hands of a sociopath who puts out a hit on everyone who brings him the wrong coffee. We will destroy ourselves: 2 points for Richard Daly: one for imprisoning real people in a game, and one for getting what he deserved and ending up trapped in there too. Total: 4

16. Be Right Back

Season 2, episode 1

Agent Carter Martha is heartbroken after the death of her partner, General Hux Ash and orders a highly realistic robot to imitate his personality and mannerisms. It never gets him quite right, though, so she decides to get rid of it, and ends up hiding it in the attic out of mercy, with visitation rights for Ash’s daughter.

How depressing is it? 3. It’s the “Monkey’s Paw” of Black Mirror. Technology will destroy us: 0. More like we’ll destroy it if it doesn’t work the way we want. We will destroy ourselves: 1.5. Wanting what you can’t have is the most widespread method of self-destruction. Total: 4.5

15. Nosedive

Season 3, episode 1

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In a world where ratings are everything, the best things in life go to those deemed worthy by their peers through an Uber-esque star system. When Lacie’s misguided attempts to improve her rating end up doing just the opposite, she ends up in a rapid decline of lifestyle and sanity. In the end, she decides to live outside the rules and say “fuck it” to the rating system.

How depressing is it? 1.5. Lacie’s spiral is hard to watch, but we like to think she ended up happy at the end. Technology will destroy us: 1.5 Not destroy, but govern. We will destroy ourselves: 2.5. Lacie comes close but emerges victorious, and the rest of society is content to live as things are. Total: 5.5

14. White Bear

Season 2, episode 2

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Victoria wakes up not knowing where she is or how she got there, and winds up on the run from people she believes are hunting her. Everywhere she goes there are people staring, judging, but never helping. It turns out that Victoria and her cohorts killed a young girl, and the simulated hunt is her daily sentence for this crime, witnessed by paying visitors.

How depressing is it? 3. The crime is awful but the punishment is thought-provoking. Technology will destroy us: 1. Having her memory wiped causes Victoria intense physical pain, but that’s part of a legally sanctioned punishment. We will destroy ourselves: 2. The culprits sure did. Total: 6

13. Fifteen Million Merits

Season 1, episode 2

Bing falls in love with the first girl he hears singing because he lives in what’s basically a prison where people work for “merits.” He gifts 15 million of those to Abi for a talent competition, but when she ends up worse off than before, Bing tries to earn them back and enters himself to overthrow the system.

How depressing is it? 3,because there’s no escaping the system, even when you’re shouting about everything wrong with it. Technology will destroy us: 1. We will destroy ourselves: 3, because Bing accepts the TV show offer. But what other choice does he have? Total: 7

12. Metalhead

Season 4, episode 5

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A woman flees a robotic dog that tracks her ruthlessly. When she finally destroys it, its last act is to shoot her with multiple additional tracking pellets. She slits her own throat knowing that she can’t outrun more of them.

How depressing is it? 2. She was just trying to do something nice and the terror as she runs for her life is too real. Technology will destroy us: 5. That is basically the only thing that happens in this episode. We will destroy ourselves: 1. Only if we go against the machines! Total: 8

11. Crocodile

Season 4, episode 3

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A woman goes on a murder spree to cover the tracks of a car accident she was involved in years ago that killed a man. We learn that there’s technology which scans people’s memories for reliable eyewitness testimonies, but that ends up being secondary to all the MURDER.

How depressing is it? 2.5. Our antihero grows numb to murder, as do we, and we’re left feeling more frustrated with her and her questionable motives than emotionally impacted by the episode. Technology will destroy us: 1. If it knows too much, it has the potential. We will destroy ourselves: 5. This episode is about murder and paranoia, with technology as a distant afterthought. Total: 8.5

10. Arkangel

Season 4, episode 2

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A mother tests a new technology called Arkangel – a small chip that lets her see what her young daughter is seeing and enable censorship if she deems it inappropriate. That itself is intriguing, but when the mother keeps using it once her daughter grows older, there’s a clear ethical conundrum. The helicopter mom threatens the boy her daughter had sex with, and when her daughter finds out, she beats her bloody with the Arkangel tablet.

How depressing is it? 3.5 for attempted matricide. Technology will destroy us: 2.If we misuse it. We will destroy ourselves: 4. If we act like idiots. Total: 9.5

9. The Entire History of You

Season 1, episode 3

Liam has the seemingly perfect life when he starts to suspect his girlfriend is cheating on him. He won’t let go of the notion, and “grains” implanted in both their minds give him the ability to rewind her memories and find the proof. Their relationship falls apart. Alone, Liam finds himself replaying memories of the good times until he can’t stand it any longer and cuts out his grain.

How depressing is it? 3. You ruined everything, Liam! Technology will destroy us: 2. Once again, the tech here will only unravel people if they let it. We will destroy ourselves: 4. With the right technology, we’re highly capable. Total: 9

8. Men Against Fire

Season 3, episode 5

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A team of military operatives hunt “roaches” – humans who have been infected or corrupted and must be put down. After an encounter that yields an escaped roach, Stripe starts seeing humans instead of roaches and thinks it’s a malfunction with his neural chip. Alas, the organization he works for is tampering with everyone’s senses, sending them to assassinate innocent humans and perceive roaches where there are none. Worse yet, Stripe learns that he consented to the procedure which would wipe his memory and let him be part of this. Now in the know and threatened, he makes the same choice again.

How depressing is it? 3.5. Fool me twice and all that. Technology will destroy us: 2.5. Stop letting people into your brains, guys. We will destroy ourselves: 3.5. Total: 9.5

7. Black Museum

Season 4, episode 6

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Nish pulls up to a “Black Museum” seemingly in the middle of nowhere, which contains the worst cautionary tales about technology and the human psyche. There’s the instrument used by a doctor who became addicted to pain; the stuffed monkey now containing an abandoned mother’s consciousness; and the preserved form of a man convicted of a crime he didn’t commit – Nish’s father, tortured perpetually by museum visitors. His conviction led to her mother’s death and sent Nish out here to get revenge – which she does.

How depressing is it? 3.5, but with a satisfying ending. Technology will destroy us: 4. It brings only pain and destruction in every vignette. We will destroy ourselves: 2. The museum curator is responsible for almost all of the misery caused, and you could argue that he brings about his own end. It’s also a particularly rough episode that destroys a family because of racial violence, and that the show doesn’t think we can overcome this vile societal demon speaks for itself. Total: 9.5

6. The National Anthem

Season 1, episode 1

The British Prime Minister receives a threat from someone who’s holding a princess hostage: The only way to release her unharmed is for the Prime Minister to have sex with a pig on live television. Big government doesn’t give in to threats lightly, but as the deadline draws near and the princess’ life remains in danger, the Prime Minister caves and commits the act in front of an international audience. The princess was released before he actually did it, and his marriage is never the same.

How depressing is it? 4, mainly because this episode occurs with existing technology; it’s the mirror part of Black Mirror. Technology will destroy us: 2. Twitter is the enemy. We will destroy ourselves: 4, perhaps out of fear of technology. Total: 10

5. White Christmas

Season 2, episode 4

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Meet Matt, who illegally ran a dating coach-esque service for lonely young men and the voyeurs who want to watch them in action – a service he terminated after a client was murdered. Also, meet his roommate, Potter, who stalked his ex after she had their baby even though she blocked him, and then killed her father when he found out it might not be his baby and let said baby (now a child) wander into a blizzard.

How depressing is it? 4. Potter had everything for one shining moment, and then it all fell to shit. Technology will destroy us: 1. It certainly messes with Greta, whose consciousness (“cookie”) gets put into a smart home. We will destroy ourselves: 5. Total: 10

4. Playtest

Season 3, episode 2

An American stranded in the U.K. tests out a virtual reality game for the extra money. There’s a definite haunted house vibe, and a game-within-the-game, none of which matters in the end because the technology was so powerful that it basically short-circuits his brain and kills him within seconds.

How depressing is it? 3. We spend the whole episode with our guy as he suffers, and it’s all for nothing. Technology will destroy us: 5. A man died! We will destroy ourselves: 3. Why do we like technology again? Total: 11.

3. Hated in the Nation

Season 3, episode 6

A few seemingly unrelated deaths are found leading back to a hateful hashtag. Whomever the nation hates on Twitter ends up dead after a hijacked robot bee flies into the brain and destroys the body. Detectives on the case are horrified and try to protect the next victim, but they realize they need to shut down the insects all together. Instead, their pilot – who seeks no monetary compensation, just chaos – sends them after everyone who ever used the hashtag to target another person. It’s a bloodbath.

How depressing is it? 3.5. A lot of people die! Technology will destroy us: 4. Specifically, robot bees. We will destroy ourselves: 4. Killer robot bees operated by people. It takes high levels of sadism and planning to execute something like that. Total: 11.5

2. Shut Up and Dance

Season 3, episode 3

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Several individuals find themselves on the receiving end of catastrophic blackmail unless they follow instructions from an anonymous source. Their puppet master commands them to steal cars, rob banks, even kill each other – just to see how far people will go to protect their reputation. In the end, their reputations are ruined anyway, and they have to live with what they did to save face.

How depressing is it? 4, with all the points coming in at the end. Technology will destroy us: 3. Lets all go off the grid! We will destroy ourselves: 5 Total: 12

1. The Waldo Moment

Season 2, episode 3

Perhaps the most pessimistic if only because this is now reality, “The Waldo Moment” occurs in a world where a literal cartoon is elected to public office because the public liked his frankness and misguidedly thought it would bring about positive change.

How depressing is it? 5. Technology will destroy us: 3.5. We will destroy ourselves: 5. Total: 13.5

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We ranked every episode of ‘Black Mirror’ based on how bleak it is

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Warning: This storycontains spoilers for every Black Mirror episode ever.

Black Mirror is known worldwide as spooky, scary, and bluntly cynical. Who among us doesn't have a friend who keeps their distance from the show lest they spiral into existential dread? Fresh from the new season on Netflix, we decided to figure out just how despondent this show is and ranked the episode based on that.

Now, since we like to do things scientifically here at Mashable, we've come up with a simple rubric to determine how pessimistic these episodes are.

How depressing is it? (0 = Happy happy sunshine, 5 = bleak af) Technology will destroy us (0 = they won't, 5 = they definitely will) We will destroy ourselves (0 = we won't, 5 = we definitely will)

Here we go.

SEE ALSO: 'Black Mirror' Season 4 confirms a long-running fan theory

19. Hang the D.J.

Season 4, episode 4

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Frank and Amy are set up on a date by "the System," a highly sophisticated algorithm that's guaranteed to pair people with their soul mates. The catch is that you know a relationship's expiration date within moments of meeting the person, but you have to spend the requisite time together regardless. Though they're only given 12 hours at first, Frank and Amy can't stop thinking about each other and wondering if the System really works – so they hang it all and run away together.

How depressing is it? 0. It is 99.8 percent happy. Technology will destroy us: 0. It might...save us? We will destroy ourselves: 0. Not this time! Total: 0

18. San Junipero

Season 3, episode 4

Black Mirror

Love wins! It wins Emmys too with the story of Yorkie and Kelly, who fall in love in a simulated reality that reunites them in different eras while they're actually in their dying days of old age. When Yorkie asks Kelly to stay with her, to live forever in this virtual reality, Kelly has to think about everything else that was part of her life, including her family – but in the end, it's them versus the world, and they conquer it.

How depressing is it? 1. Only because Kelly doesn't get to be with her family. ONE POINT. Technology will destroy us: 0. It might have some good in it yet. We will destroy ourselves: 0. Total: 1

17. U.S.S. Callister

Season 4, episode 1

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16. Be Right Back

Season 2, episode 1

How depressing is it? 3. It's the "Monkey's Paw" of Black Mirror. Technology will destroy us: 0. More like we'll destroy it if it doesn't work the way we want. We will destroy ourselves: 1.5. Wanting what you can't have is the most widespread method of self-destruction. Total: 4.5

15. Nosedive

Season 3, episode 1

Black Mirror

In a world where ratings are everything, the best things in life go to those deemed worthy by their peers through an Uber-esque star system. When Lacie's misguided attempts to improve her rating end up doing just the opposite, she ends up in a rapid decline of lifestyle and sanity. In the end, she decides to live outside the rules and say "fuck it" to the rating system.

How depressing is it? 1.5. Lacie's spiral is hard to watch, but we like to think she ended up happy at the end. Technology will destroy us: 1.5 Not destroy, but govern. We will destroy ourselves: 2.5. Lacie comes close but emerges victorious, and the rest of society is content to live as things are. Total: 5.5

14. White Bear

Season 2, episode 2

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How depressing is it? 3. The crime is awful but the punishment is thought-provoking. Technology will destroy us: 1. Having her memory wiped causes Victoria intense physical pain, but that's part of a legally sanctioned punishment. We will destroy ourselves: 2. The culprits sure did. Total: 6

13. Fifteen Million Merits

Season 1, episode 2

Bing falls in love with the first girl he hears singing because he lives in what's basically a prison where people work for "merits." He gifts 15 million of those to Abi for a talent competition, but when she ends up worse off than before, Bing tries to earn them back and enters himself to overthrow the system.

How depressing is it? 3,because there's no escaping the system, even when you're shouting about everything wrong with it. Technology will destroy us: 1. We will destroy ourselves: 3, because Bing accepts the TV show offer. But what other choice does he have? Total: 7

12. Metalhead

Season 4, episode 5

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11. Crocodile

Season 4, episode 3

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A woman goes on a murder spree to cover the tracks of a car accident she was involved in years ago that killed a man. We learn that there's technology which scans people's memories for reliable eyewitness testimonies, but that ends up being secondary to all the MURDER.

How depressing is it? 2.5. Our antihero grows numb to murder, as do we, and we're left feeling more frustrated with her and her questionable motives than emotionally impacted by the episode. Technology will destroy us: 1. If it knows too much, it has the potential. We will destroy ourselves: 5. This episode is about murder and paranoia, with technology as a distant afterthought. Total: 8.5

10. Arkangel

Season 4, episode 2

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A mother tests a new technology called Arkangel – a small chip that lets her see what her young daughter is seeing and enable censorship if she deems it inappropriate. That itself is intriguing, but when the mother keeps using it once her daughter grows older, there's a clear ethical conundrum. The helicopter mom threatens the boy her daughter had sex with, and when her daughter finds out, she beats her bloody with the Arkangel tablet.

How depressing is it? 3.5 for attempted matricide. Technology will destroy us: 2.If we misuse it. We will destroy ourselves: 4. If we act like idiots. Total: 9.5

9. The Entire History of You

Season 1, episode 3

Liam has the seemingly perfect life when he starts to suspect his girlfriend is cheating on him. He won't let go of the notion, and "grains" implanted in both their minds give him the ability to rewind her memories and find the proof. Their relationship falls apart. Alone, Liam finds himself replaying memories of the good times until he can't stand it any longer and cuts out his grain.

8. Men Against Fire

Season 3, episode 5

Black Mirror

A team of military operatives hunt "roaches" – humans who have been infected or corrupted and must be put down. After an encounter that yields an escaped roach, Stripe starts seeing humans instead of roaches and thinks it's a malfunction with his neural chip. Alas, the organization he works for is tampering with everyone's senses, sending them to assassinate innocent humans and perceive roaches where there are none. Worse yet, Stripe learns that he consented to the procedure which would wipe his memory and let him be part of this. Now in the know and threatened, he makes the same choice again.

How depressing is it? 3.5. Fool me twice and all that. Technology will destroy us: 2.5. Stop letting people into your brains, guys. We will destroy ourselves: 3.5. Total: 9.5

7. Black Museum

Season 4, episode 6

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Nish pulls up to a "Black Museum" seemingly in the middle of nowhere, which contains the worst cautionary tales about technology and the human psyche. There's the instrument used by a doctor who became addicted to pain; the stuffed monkey now containing an abandoned mother's consciousness; and the preserved form of a man convicted of a crime he didn't commit – Nish's father, tortured perpetually by museum visitors. His conviction led to her mother's death and sent Nish out here to get revenge – which she does.

How depressing is it? 3.5, but with a satisfying ending. Technology will destroy us: 4. It brings only pain and destruction in every vignette. We will destroy ourselves: 2. The museum curator is responsible for almost all of the misery caused, and you could argue that he brings about his own end. It's also a particularly rough episode that destroys a family because of racial violence, and that the show doesn't think we can overcome this vile societal demon speaks for itself. Total: 9.5

6. The National Anthem

Season 1, episode 1

The British Prime Minister receives a threat from someone who's holding a princess hostage: The only way to release her unharmed is for the Prime Minister to have sex with a pig on live television. Big government doesn't give in to threats lightly, but as the deadline draws near and the princess' life remains in danger, the Prime Minister caves and commits the act in front of an international audience. The princess was released before he actually did it, and his marriage is never the same.

How depressing is it? 4, mainly because this episode occurs with existing technology; it's the mirror part of Black Mirror. Technology will destroy us: 2. Twitter is the enemy. We will destroy ourselves: 4, perhaps out of fear of technology. Total: 10

5. White Christmas

Season 2, episode 4

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How depressing is it? 4. Potter had everything for one shining moment, and then it all fell to shit. Technology will destroy us: 1. It certainly messes with Greta, whose consciousness ("cookie") gets put into a smart home. We will destroy ourselves: 5. Total: 10

4. Playtest

Season 3, episode 2

An American stranded in the U.K. tests out a virtual reality game for the extra money. There's a definite haunted house vibe, and a game-within-the-game, none of which matters in the end because the technology was so powerful that it basically short-circuits his brain and kills him within seconds.

How depressing is it? 3. We spend the whole episode with our guy as he suffers, and it's all for nothing. Technology will destroy us: 5. A man died! We will destroy ourselves: 3. Why do we like technology again? Total: 11.

3. Hated in the Nation

Season 3, episode 6

2. Shut Up and Dance

Season 3, episode 3

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How depressing is it? 4, with all the points coming in at the end. Technology will destroy us: 3. Lets all go off the grid! We will destroy ourselves: 5 Total: 12

1. The Waldo Moment

Season 2, episode 3

Perhaps the most pessimistic if only because this is now reality, "The Waldo Moment" occurs in a world where a literal cartoon is elected to public office because the public liked his frankness and misguidedly thought it would bring about positive change.

How depressing is it? 5. Technology will destroy us: 3.5. We will destroy ourselves: 5. Total: 13.5

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