With Season 6 of Black Mirror out soon, it's a safe bet that fans are rolling back through the archives. There's just so much to soak in as creator Charlie Brooker weaves sinister tales about how people lose their way due to technology. And more so, how humanity, as a species, is cognizant of this but keeps going further down the rabbit hole for the sake of convenience.

Season 4's "Arkangel" episode summed this up by detailing extremely invasive parenting. Interestingly, Season 2 waded into another integral sociopolitical topic in the form of capital punishment. This came via the episode, "White Bear," which illustrated how dehumanizing and pointless this sentencing can be.

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Black Mirror's White Bear Used a Fake Park for Torture

Woman horrified in ending of Black Mirror's "White Bear" episode

"White Bear" focused on Victoria, a woman on the run. She had to evade hunters in a mini-city after waking with amnesia and finding photographs of a man and a young girl, which she assumes to be her family. In time, Victoria would find out this wasn't her family. Everything was staged, and all the mental and physical anguish she suffered was because she was prey.

The mini-city was actually the White Bear Justice Park, where the voyeurs and pedestrians are actually patrons who pay to see the "play." Victoria is captured and taken back to the starting point for psychological torture and a mind-wipe. It's part of a program for fiends like her, with the bombshell reveal that she and the man in the photo are criminals who murdered the little girl.

Once the minds are reset, the hunt begins anew with another crowd the next day. It's depraved karma and very much one of the show's most unforgiving, torturous stories. There's nothing to learn from the prisoners, so something that isn't restorative should be deemed criminal.

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Black Mirror's White Bear Park Isn't Proper Justice

A masked man aims a shotgun at a car while others record on their phones in Black Mirror White Bear

Cynics and nihilists would say this is deserved. But such punishment, as many countries have decreed, doesn't necessarily lower crime statistics. It's a stopgap measure, rather than getting to the root cause of crime. But the main point of Black Mirror is to show humankind's hypocrisy and how, while they know tech can be appropriated wrongfully, they still do so for entertainment. It's evident by how the willing participants don't care that the prisoners are basically slaves, forced to unknowingly perform while they're filmed.

It's intrusive and perverse, with the public having a demented fetish. No one's absolving the criminals, but such behavior can't be condoned. Yet Black Mirror, much like the "Playtest" episode with virtual reality, made a real pocket of society where capitalism and exploitation collided to derive pleasure. Once more, it's clear that tech corrupts, with this brand of incarceration and mental rebooting making the "good guys" just as vile and reprehensible as the very monsters they have no intentions of reforming. Ultimately, it's sadistic fun and games for people playing judge, jury and executioner, all while setting a bad example for the younger generation.

Black Mirror Season 6 premieres June 15 on Netflix.