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Although the recording of the special only took them 10 days and each actor took only one day to shoot his participation, the first steps of the program date back to July, when Brooke and Jones told Netflix about their proposal. In September, a script that has been evolving for weeks, signed by almost twenty writers coordinated by Brooke, was already underway and that reviews events such as the U.S. elections, the emergence of Tik Tok, the victory of Parasites at the Oscars, the fires in Australia or the Black Lives Matter movement.

And, of course, a pandemic, which has turned out to be very different from the one Brooker as screenwriter and Jones as producer imagined in 2008 in the zombie series Dead Set. “Society collapsed in the first 20 minutes. Everybody was turning on everybody else. And that hasn’t happened in this pandemic,” Brooker reviews, almost monopolizing the conversation. “It hasn’t been as depressingly dramatic as Hollywood-style pandemics. Neighbors have been more about helping others than attacking them for scarce resources. Yes, people panicked by buying toilet paper. But other than that, people in general have been very supportive and there has been a greater recognition of essential workers and sanitation workers, delivery people… There has been more community spirit than a pessimist like me could have imagined.”

Black mirror explanation

After a decade of working together, Mike Schur and Greg Daniels were stuck for ideas. After finishing The Office (and Parks and Recreation), Schur launched a series about the ethics that define death and life from the afterlife, heaven and hell. He called it The Good Place and recaptured the same magic. Daniels, meanwhile, was signed by Amazon Prime Video and in 2020 released his first project on the platform, one long brewing in his mind. It was called Upload, and, also, it was a series about the ethics that define our death and afterlife. Two that share a scripting table, they end up being of the same status.

Upload begins when a promising young man dies in an accident (or not) with his autonomous car. But in this 2033 no one actually dies. His mind and his supposed soul are automatically transferred, at his girlfriend’s request, to an idyllic virtual world where he will wait for her until she dies. Everything is now within his reach, for a small fee. Everything except a human connection. This perhaps confusing plot went, unfortunately, too unnoticed.

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Black Mirror is a British dystopian/costume science fiction anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker and produced by Zeppotron for Endemol.[1] Described by its production company as “a hybrid of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected that draws on our contemporary unease about our modern world” the series is characterized by featuring self-contained dystopian stories that generally display a sense of “techno-paranoia” and analyze how technology affects humans.[2] The series has received positive reviews[3] since its release in 2011.[4][5][6] It has also seen an increase in international interest, particularly in the United States, following its addition to the series’ catalogue.

The series has received positive reviews[3] since its release in 2011.[4][5][6] It has also seen an increase in international interest, particularly in the United States, following its addition to Netflix’s catalog of series.[7] It has also seen a rise in international interest, particularly in the United States, following its addition to Netflix’s catalog of series.[8] The series has also seen an increase in international interest.

Throughout its career it has received two Emmy Awards (in 2017 for the fourth episode of the third season, San Junipero and in 2018 for the first episode of the fourth season USS Callister), Bafta Awards (in 2017 for San Junipero) or nominations for the Hugo Awards.[8]

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The long-awaited fifth season of ‘Black Mirror’, the fantastic series with a dystopian soul and satirical spirit created by the always acid Charlie Brooker that, once again, we can enjoy thanks to the video on demand platform Netflix, has finally premiered.

I would be lying if I said that the first act of ‘Shut up and dance’ did not have me glued to my TV screen like a moth to a fluorescent lamp. And that’s because its effective and very simple start puts on the table all the ingredients to cook a first class divertimento. Unfortunately, James Watkins and Charlie Brooker -director and screenwriter respectively- turn a promising premise into a sort of absurd gymkhana that leads to a most frustrating conclusion. It seems that, after all, the image of the trollface was being sent to us.

Either I’m very much mistaken, or this is one of those cases in which the middle ground is practically non-existent when it comes to reacting: either you hate ‘USS Callister’, or you love it. In my case, the digestion of the excessive 75 minutes of duration of the chapter has become excessively heavy, quickly saturating me once the surprise generated by its approach and its aesthetics ceases to have an effect. Not even the remarkable work as the infamous protagonist of Jesse Plemons manages to make me enjoy this -voluntary- tackiness that, rather than an episode of ‘Black Mirror’ seems a malicious revulsion to ‘The Orville’.