The next big new thing is here—Black Mirror—and you have to watch it now. The British television series, created by Charlie Booker, has recently begun its third season on Netflix and it deserves our limited attention spans. Why? Because Black Mirror theorizes the consequences of future technology in such unsettling, terrifying detail, that we might just resist the next Next Big Thing—before it’s too late.

Though each hour long episode is comprised of different characters, a unique setting, and a plot unconnected to a larger series, Black Mirror imagines an eerily familiar future, in which everyday people are destroyed by the gadgets in their pockets, and the chips in their head. “If technology is a drug, and it does feel like a drug, then what, precisely, are the side effects?” Booker asks.