For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClayBlack MirrorNetflixBack today with three new episodes is Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’s series of tech-fables, and as usual it’s somewhat cloaked in mystery. We know this much: Striking Vipers is about two estranged college friends who reunite in later life, setting them on course for what Brooker has described as “Brokeback Mountain meets Street Fighter II”. Smithereens stars Andrew Scott (Sherlock; Fleabag) as a cab driver irritated by the world’s addiction to smartphones, and who finally snaps. Then there is Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too, starring Miley Cyrus as a jaded pop star named Ashley O, worshipped by a lonely teenager, who hangs off her every empowering platitude…

Source: The Times June 04, 2019 23:00 UTC