“On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.” KindRealShowsHandsWeekStringsEpisodesReal FreedomReinventing Author:Charlie Brooker
“I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.” KnowsKindDifferentKidsThese DaysBoredomDifferent Kinds Author:Charlie Brooker
“I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindMeanSocialSpaceMediaAngryStartingSocial MediaAll KindsToxicAttackingIncidents Author:Charlie Brooker
“In a weird way, when everyone's feeling that the world's going to hell in a hand basket, I kind of relax a little more because I often feel like that.” WorldWayFeelsKindLittlesFeelingsHandsHellRelaxBaskets Author:Charlie Brooker
“[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.” WantKindProblemBlackMankindConsequenceMachinesMirrorsUnforeseen Author:Charlie Brooker
“We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of London, now Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson was widely seen as a cartoonish oaf and that made him strangely undentable as a politician. No one could land a blow on him because he was already ridiculous.” WayKindMadeCharacterCrazyLandHairTrumpPoliticianBlowLondonRidiculousSecretaryJohnsonBlondeMayorsBlonde Hair Author:Charlie Brooker