As the busiest time of the year is quickly approaching, what better to do with your time than sit around and watch Netflix? The show Black Mirror currently has three seasons up on Netflix. The episodes each deal with a different story, different characters, and different situations. However, they all center around the same theme: a future run solely on technology and the perils that come along with its progress. Not yet convinced? Well, here are another five reasons as to why you should tune in to this gold mine of a show.

1. Get woke

Think that addiction to your social media accounts is no big deal? Believe the future holds wonderful things in store that won't alter our ability to function as humans in any way? WELL THINK AGAIN! This show accurately portrays the worst-case scenarios in the development of technology. In this roundabout future, the physics of death, the idea of reality, and the perception of everyday life become mere holograms and computers. Your social standing online becomes more important than who you are as a person. People learn to distrust themselves and put their only trust in computers and, oh gosh, doesn't this all sound scarily familiar in some way (wink wink)? So, if you're looking for a show that can really open your eyes to the world around you, queue it up.

2. Awesome actors

On top of its amazing plots and storylines, this show is full of amazing actors from some of your favorite shows and movies. People such as John Hamm of Mad Men, Toby Kebbell from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and even Michael Kelly from House of Cards. These phenomenal actors do a wonderful job of portraying this utopian/dystopian future.

3. Satisfies that thriller craving

While this show is extremely awakening and informative, it does so in a frightening way. Many of the episodes include graphic deaths, horrifying amounts of government control, and technologies that severely affect the characters psychologically. If you're looking for a fright, and traditional horror isn't your taste, this will surely spook you, as well as leave you thinking.

4. Along with that mystery craving

Along with its exciting and thrilling aspects, this show will keep surprising you until the very end of each episode. What starts off as complete confusion makes you think you know what's going on only to find out in the end that you never really did. The show itself includes qualities of both Law and Order SVU and The X Files with a futuristic/technological twist.

5. British accents

And last, but certainly not least, the vast majority of characters in the show have British accents! Super fun for those of you anglophiles out there, and for those who don't care for the accents, you still have four good reasons to watch the show, so go and do it!