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wilderesque

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Charlie Brooker's "Black Mirror"
« on: January 26, 2012, 08:15:01 PM »
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Charlie Brooker, the writer of E4's Dead Set, returns with a suspenseful, satirical three-part mini-series. An Endemol press release describes the series as "a hybrid of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected which taps into our contemporary unease about our modern world", with the stories having a "techno-paranoia" feel. Channel 4 describes the first episode as "a twisted parable for the Twitter age".

"Black Mirror" - Series Trailer
"Black Mirror" - IMDB


Episode 1 - "The National Anthem"

-Part 1
-Part 2
-Part 3


Episode 2 - "15 Million Merits"

-Part 1
-Part 2
-Part 3
-Part 4
-Part 5


Episode 3 - "The Entire History of You"

-Part 1
-Part 2
-Part 3
-Part 5

Warning: Episode synopses contain potential spoilers


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Re: Charlie Brooker's "Black Mirror"
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2013, 06:41:35 PM »
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5AKVtvkdc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5AKVtvkdc</a>
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Re: Charlie Brooker's "Black Mirror"
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2013, 11:54:39 AM »
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I just watched "15 Million Merits" for the first time last night.  These sort of reductio ad absurdum science fiction stories have a tendency to fall back on easy allegory ("In Time", "Gamer", "Idiocracy"), but this one manages to avoid that, it creates a world that feels more like a legitimate continuation of our own than simply a comment on it.  It's also the bleakest story I've seen since "Dancer in the Dark", which earns it a big thumbs up from me.
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

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Re: Charlie Brooker's "Black Mirror"
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2013, 10:46:49 AM »
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New episode aired last night. Now that The Thick of It's finished, this is my favourite show on now after Breaking Bad. Really tight writing and original sci-fi. Wish it had a bit more of a sense of humour to it, seeing as Charlie Brooker wrote it, though. All his original dramas are really dry.



I loved the first episode the best. The terrorism one. It felt like they'd taken one of Brooker's exaggerated surreal invective barbs from his Guardian columns and then tried to portray it in as hyper-realistic as possible to show how appalling it would really be. One of the greatest tv episodes of the last decade, easy.
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Re: Charlie Brooker's "Black Mirror"
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2013, 12:22:31 AM »
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I just watched the first episode of season 2 and it's absolutely terrifying, made me feel sick to my stomach.
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Re: Charlie Brooker's "Black Mirror"
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2013, 01:24:02 AM »
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Thank you so much for this, wilderesque! The twelve-year-old Twilight Zone freak in me just found his new favourite show.
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