Extremely uneven yet extremely provocative series about future-tech: Black Mirror

The British series Black Mirror, picked up by Netflix for season 3, is unlike any other - which in some ways is good but not always. First of all, it's an anthology series rather than a serial drama (I didn't realize this until the end of episode one, when it became clear we would not follow these characters across 13 episodes). I wondered how they could develop a full season with each episode an entirely new concept, but then I saw that "season 1" consists of only 3 episodes - I believe there are 13 altogether over 3 seasons. In any event, what makes it a series is the consistent theme - examination in various forms as to how technology - VR, social media, digital storage, etc. - will change our lives in the future, in a dystopian future, anyway. My opinions about the first 4 episodes vary so widely I can't even say whether I would recommend this series or not, so see for yourself. But the first episode - which is the only one out of the 4 I've seen in which the future has caught up with the futuristic narrative: the premise, in 2011, was that social media would displace mainstream media in news coverage, and that via social media politicians could have instant readings for public moods and views - we're already there! This episode was extremely tense and kept us entirely focused, but it is so bizarre and disturbing that I would recommend extreme caution before you watch. The 2nd episode, about a world in which people, for no clear reason, are confined to an ultramodern fitness center where they earn "merits" by miles cycled - an they can trade these merits for various pleasures. I found this so incredibly boring I couldn't watch more than 25 minutes - I have enough screen time in daily life, thanks. But then, things changed: episode 3 - in which people have implanted devices that capture all experience and can be played again repeatedly via a "re-do" was a terrific drama about marital stress and failure, infidelity, and anxiety - even without the scifi premise it could stand alone as a really good play or drama. Episode 4, which kicked off the 2nd season, is about creation of a virtual life using a superexpansive search engine - in the way the Google anticipates what we're going to type and FB what ads we "want" to see, this is about service that can re-create a dead person to speak to and comfort the surviving, in this case, spouse. Another excellent drama, disturbing and provocative - will remind some of the movie Her, but is stranger in that the VR presence is an uncanny re-creation of the late husband. So, yes, I'm still in.