'Black Mirror' reflects a high-tech world with wicked style
The anthology series "Black Mirror" takes you through a high-tech looking glass with jittery tales sure to lodge in your brain for years to come, as it reclaims the hallowed realm of "The Twilight Zone" for a new millennium.
Netflix has just released six new episodes that supplement seven previous hours created for British television.
"Shut Up and Dance" exposes a teenage boy who, after his computer is hacked, will do anything to keep his private life private.
Brooker, 45, is an English media critic, satirist, TV personality and screenwriter whose piercing contributions to Brit cultural life may have been a bit too U.K.-centric to have made the leap to American shores.
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Perhaps it's no surprise that Brooker's starting point for "Black Mirror" was his childhood obsession with America's "The Twilight Zone," with its socially progressive parables, twist-y endings and shivers delivered down the viewer's spine.
Decades later, as Brooker set about framing his new series, he asked himself, "What's the big thing worrying people now?" To him, the answer seemed obvious: the disruptive effects of ever-mounting technology.
Episodes of the show he comes up with typically unfold in an oblique, contemplative fashion, reflecting a modern age when technology, notwithstanding each breakthrough, is largely taken for granted.
[...] Black Mirror" defined!