We have this really weird relationship with people who aren’t there, and I really loved this episode when it was digging deep on that. “I text with my wife during the day more than I actually see her. And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to our full review of Black Mirror in Episode 153 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast (above). I think Charlie Brooker is just angry at television, and this is him expressing his anger at television.”

“I don’t think there was any commercial motive behind this show at all. “It’s hard to even imagine how this show got made, it’s so non-commercial in so many ways,” says Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley. Black Mirror has voice and vision, which makes it a standout not just among TV sci-fi, but among TV shows in general.

The shocking nature of the show is nowhere more evident than in its premiere episode, “The National Anthem,” a jaw-dropping tour-de-force of satire and bestiality. Night Shyamalan ‘Oh, what a twist!’ way, but more in a devastating series of ‘You think you’re watching one thing, then this thing is going to happen instead,’ and it goes completely off into somewhere else.” “I think Charlie Brooker’s really good at doing these kinds of reversals,” says TV critic Theresa DeLucci. The shows are full of twists and turns, particularly the labyrnthine Christmas special “White Christmas.” “Which is so much fun, but it sometimes feels like everything is set at volume 11.”Īnd though the concepts in Black Mirror may be straightforward, the plotlines are anything but. “A lot of books right now are into big, wild, crazy ideas,” he says. Author Grady Hendrix admires that simplicity. And unlike science fiction books, which are often so full of baroque flourishes and unfamiliar jargon that they become incomprehensible to outsiders, Black Mirror is instantly engaging and accessible.

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