When the Brit Charlie Brooker was still the author of a satirical column in the weekend magazine of the Guardians titled “Sceen Burn”, people were happy about the tone of his texts, which was soaked in pop-cultural references and was equally techno-affine and culturally pessimistic. As the former video game critic then in 2011 for Channel 4 the series BlackMirror When writing began, it was clear that Brooker had found the perfect format: a dystopian anthology series that speculatively but well-informed advanced contemporary technological phenomena into their worst-possible consequences in an imminent future. The eponymous “Black Mirror” was of course the dead screen of smartphones, tablets and televisions that we all stare at constantly.
Black Mirror on Netflix – disappointing nostalgia trip – Media
