Black Mirror

The “grumpy cat” movie is a harbinger of the apocalypse

The grumpy cat meme is getting a movie. Producers say it will be “Garfield-like.” This horrific news should surprise nobody who follows Hollywood dealmaking. What might surprise you is how much this scenario resembles a dystopian scifi story called “The Waldo Moment,” about how memes give rise to global fascism. https://gizmodo.com/the-final-episode-of-black-mirror-gives-you-big-brother-5987222 Producers Todd Garner and…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 5

The final episode of Black Mirror gives you Big Brother for the social media age

Last night marked the final episode in the second series of Black Mirror, the ultra-dark UK show that explores the future of media. This series, like the first, was a set of three short stories (we reviewed the first episode here), each set in the near future. Though this second series was more uneven than…

Television Annalee Newitz Feb 27

Is Hollywood About to Dumb Down the Dystopian British Series Black Mirror?

Robert Downey Jr. has bought the rights to “The Entire History of You,” one of the episodes from the first season of Black Mirror. It’s a pitch-dark tale of a future where people record their memories into brain implants, and can replay them for friends on their computers, mobiles, or whatever. The story centers on…

Movies Annalee Newitz Feb 13

Dystopian British series Black Mirror returns to twist the knife

Last year, writer and satirist Charlie Brooker awed us and basically ripped our guts out with the first season of Black Mirror, a three-episode series of short stories set in troubling, media-saturated futures. Now he’s back with season two, whose first episode, “Be Right Back,” aired last night on Channel 4. It was a strong,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 12

Can you tell the difference between this Black Mirror trailer and a Microsoft ad?

The intense creepiness of this trailer for season two of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror is only amped up by the fact that it resembles any number of ads for consumer electronics and internet whizbangery. By the time you get to the slogan — “The future is broken” — you’re already feeling the horrible dystopian vibe.…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders Jan 28

First Details About Black Mirror Season 2!

The first three episodes of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror were among the coolest television I’ve ever watched, and images and ideas from those three one-hour playlets often pop into my head at inopportune moments. So there’s no way to overstate my excitement for the second batch of three episodes, coming sometime soon. Britain’s answer to…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 22

Black Mirror will warp your mind a second time

Black Mirror was one of the most ambitious, haunting pieces of television we’ve seen in years — so it’s excellent news that we’re apparently getting three more hours of it. https://gizmodo.com/black-mirror-is-television-science-fiction-at-its-best-5876704 According to SFX, Channel 4 has commissioned a second year of Charlie Brooker’s audacious anthology program, comparing Brooker to Dennis Potter as well as…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 25

Black Mirror is television science fiction at its best

Aired late last year in the UK, the short anthology series Black Mirror is one of the best works of science fiction I’ve seen on television in a long time. All three episodes, set in near and distant futures, are about how we integrate new technologies into the most intimate parts of our lives, often…

Television Annalee Newitz Jan 18

German SF Through Two World Wars And The Berlin Wall

How did Germany’s dreams (and nightmares) of the future shift over a century or so, including two world wars and the Berlin Wall? A new anthology takes us inside the history of German science fiction. The Black Mirror & Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction From Germany & Austria (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) samples…

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The “grumpy cat” movie is a harbinger of the apocalypse

The final episode of Black Mirror gives you Big Brother for the social media age

Is Hollywood About to Dumb Down the Dystopian British Series Black Mirror?

Dystopian British series Black Mirror returns to twist the knife

Can you tell the difference between this Black Mirror trailer and a Microsoft ad?

First Details About Black Mirror Season 2!

Black Mirror will warp your mind a second time

Black Mirror is television science fiction at its best

German SF Through Two World Wars And The Berlin Wall

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