The title even refers to your phone screen.
It’s just a new generation of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, written by a comedian. It’s not supposed to be amazingly deep.
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sundray@lemmus.org 2 days agoI think it was writer Daniel M. Lavery who described Black Mirror as, “What if cell phone… but too much!”
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FishFace@piefed.social 2 days ago
accurate!
Zink@programming.dev 2 days ago
That’s kind of an accurate way to describe a lot of society these days though, from doomscrolling to phone addiction to social media disinformation to surveillance and tracking and advertising.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
True, but these ideas were not quite in vogue in 2011 when Black Mirror first aired. The internet still felt like a wonder full of endless possibility.
Zink@programming.dev 2 days ago
Yeah. It would be sweet to live in a world that doesn’t keep proving the cynics and doomsayers correct.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 days ago
You do know that the elite actually use things pike Orwell’s 1984 and Black Mirror as suggestions?