There are 2 major tropes which I used to love until Black Mirror milked the ever loving shit out of them (and 1 trope I want more of)

This is a rant. It's probably full of spoilers.

I used to really enjoy AI-in-a-box until BM ran it into the fucking ground. I also appreciated a good deus ex machina (that's not just a coverup for bad writing) until BM started using it lately to say, "science? Just trust me bro." What I still love, what I used to see a lot of in the older episodes, and what I want a return to, is an exploration of the effects of technology on the human mind. We're getting less and less of that.

AI in a box:

• 2014 White Christmas (I did like this)
• S3E2 Playtest (loose fit)
• S3E4 San Junipero
• S4E1 USS Callister
• S4E4 Hang the DJ
• S4E6 Black Museum
• S5E3 Rachel Jack and Ashley Too
• S6E1 Joan is Awful
• S7E3 Hotel Reverie
• S7E4 Plaything
• S7E6 USS Callister 2

Trust me bro:

• S7E2 Bete Noire
• S7E4 Plaything

This includes 4 of the last 6 episodes. I especially feel that S7E2 and E4 were the result of the writers not coming up with an actual ending, so they magically handwave it with a DEM. And the AI-in-a-box plots are usually thinly veiled torture porn. We get it. AIs don't like being trapped. This all started after Netflix took the reins beginning with S3 and had them copy White Christmas over and over again. I'm also not the biggest fan of the murder episodes, but luckily they are not too common.

Instead, I'd love to see them return more to their S1 and S2 roots of just exploring the effects of technology on people, and watching them adapt to a new normal. Besides the first 6 episodes, I especially loved S3E5, S4E2, S5E1, and S7E1. In fact after watching S7E1, I was hoping that they made a return to what made me fall in love with the show in the first place. But instead, we got empress of the universe and global surveillance computer god. Also, USS Callister 2 was decent to watch, but it didn't feel like BM; it was a scifi adventure akin to Star Trek. I get that they were going for a Star Trek vibe, but the technology and its implications were, for the most part, sidelined for pew pew in outer space.

Please, less trapped AIs, less magical tech, more psychological stuff.