Was an episode of Max Headroom where it was illegal to own an off-switch for your television.
40 years earlier, and still ahead of its time.
Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."
mEEGal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TODAY, on BLACK MIRROR EPISODES in Real LIFE
I kid you not, there’s this BM episode where they train on indoor bikes and sleep in pods and have to watch the ad on the screen lest it screeches at them
FUCK YOU TWITCH 🤗💖
j_elgato@leminal.space 1 day ago
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 day ago
It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Every dystopic shit that eventually happens in real life has been featured in a BM episode.
I am starting to suspect that either the authors of BM know something we don’t, or that some people are treating BM as some kind of an instruction manual.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
shneancy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
unfortunately, when you get good sci-fi writers who use the medium to examine social tendencies & human psychology, then try to draw out a possible conclusion whilst also having the audience take a step back by introducing a fantastical element… you have a team of people who will predict the future, despite really not wanting to
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
We’re a few years away from the first phase of “Be Right Back.”
shneancy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
years? i’d be deeply surprised if it wasn’t happening already
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 21 hours ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tech CEOs watched that series for inspiration for new products. They read 1984 for the same reason.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
the episode was called: A Million Merits
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
** 15 million merits
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ah shit thanks