Here’s your spoiler-free guide to our favorite Black Mirror filming locations across Europe.
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What is Black Mirror about?
“Techno-paranoia” is the best phrase we’ve ever heard describing Netflix’s Black Mirror.
It envisions a not-too-distant dystopian future where our addiction, reliance, and apprehension about social media, geotracking, and biotech all come true in the most horrifyingly remarkable ways.
Or, maybe it’s just a modern-day cousin to The Twilight Zone.
Where was Netflix’s Black Mirror filmed?
Since each episode is a stand-alone story, you’ll have to be more specific. Production crews have traveled to the United States, Canada, South Africa, and South America, but some of our favorite Black Mirror filming locations are right here in the UK and Europe.
Was Black Mirror made in the UK?
Netflix’s Black Mirror was initially an original television show from the British network Channel 4, before getting picked up by Netflix from Season 3 and beyond.
Image Credit: Getty Images, Christopher West. Location: Arrochar, Scotland
Where is Black Mirror filmed in Scotland?
Scotland was the setting and filming location for Black Mirror Season 6, ‘Loch Henry’. Loch Henry and the town of Waltonville are fictional places made up of nearly 20 different Scottish backdrops, specifically Argyll (Taynuilt train station), Arrochar (Arrochar & Tarbet train station), Bute (Wemyss Bay train station), and Inveraray (Dalmally train station).
Where was Black Mirror Crocodile filmed?
There is one secret that Mia cannot keep contained and that’s where Season 4 Episode 3 of Black Mirror, ‘Crocodile’, was filmed. Take one look at this spectacularly snowy landscape and it’s obvious that it’s Iceland. Production hopped around the Icelandic landscape, including to the shores of Kleifarvatn lake, Grænavatn crater lake, and the Harpa Concert Hall.
Black Mirror Season 6 Filming Locations
Black Mirror Season 6 filming locations revisit England, stop in Scotland for the first time, and take some scenery from Spain.
Image Credit: Getty Images, clubfoto. Location: Rye, East Sussex, England
Where is the Loch Henry pub?
Take the ScotRail or Caledonian Sleeper up to Arrochar & Tarbet and you can walk to the real Loch Henry pub, the Lochside Inn. In real-life, it’s called The Village Inn.
Where are the Black Mirror Beyond the Sea filming locations?
Black Mirror Season 6 ups the ante with some truly devastating storylines, which makes it all the more hard to swallow that ‘Beyond the Sea’’s filming locations are so peaceful. The cobbled lanes of Rye (nearest train station: Rye) was used as the town shop while Chilham Mill Estate and Home Farm in Kent act as Cliff’s home (Chilham train station is closest).
Where is the village from Black Mirror Demon 79?
The village of Tipley in ‘Demon 79’ used a handful of filming locations, including a shopping mall in Harrow (closest station: Harrow-on-the-Hill) and the Palm Tree pub in London’s Mile End Park (Mile End Underground stop).
Where is Streamberry headquarters in Black Mirror Joan is Awful?
‘Joan is Awful’ filmed primarily around London, with the Streamberry HQ being housed in London’s 100 Liverpool Street building.
Image Credit: Getty Images, Olena Didevska. Location: Marbella, Malaga, Spain
Was Black Mirror Mazey Day filmed in California?
Despite being set in Los Angeles, Black Mirror Season 6’s peculiar paparazzi thriller ‘Mazey Day’ was filmed around Malaga, including one of our favorite Spanish beach towns, Marbella. Getting to Marbella is quick and easy via bus from Malaga airport and Estepona.
More Black Mirror Filming Locations in Europe
Here are a few other Black Mirror filming locations from past seasons you can visit in the UK and Europe.
- ‘Smithereens’, S5 E2: Smithereens CEO Billy Bauer (played by Topher Grace) receives a phone call in his silent meditation camp in Utah. The glass house is actually located in Spain’s Gorafe Desert, which isn’t too far from Granada train station.
- ‘Black Museum’, S5 E6: The Black Museum and gas station are located in Almeria, Spain; Estación de tren Almeria is the main train station.
- ‘Bandersnatch’: In the interactive Black Mirror film, filming took place in Croydon, using the One Croydon building as Tuckersoft’s offices. Croydon is in South London, accessible from the East Croydon and West Croydon train stations.
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Succession | Downton Abbey | The New Look | Queen Charlotte | Slow Horses
Game of Thrones | Sex Education | Ted Lasso | The Crown | White Lotus
Citadel | Emily in Paris | Lupin | The Diplomat | Ted Lasso (Amsterdam episode)
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