“I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Luddite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.” ThinkingMenHateBlackTechnologyWrittenMirrorsAngryAssumingStoresOld ManViewersFistsApps Author:Charlie Brooker
“My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.” WholeBlackMirrorsContinuum Author:Charlie Brooker
“I would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of nuclear war. I was born in 1971, and in the '80s I came to understand that I was inevitably going to be frazzled to death in the nuclear apocalypse.” StillsWarBlackBornMirrorsNuclearApocalypse80sNuclear War Author:Charlie Brooker
“In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.” WritingHappensUsedBlackComedyWorstEffectsMirrorsComicMusclesPlotWorst ThingsSitcomComedy Writing Author:Charlie Brooker
“A sort of angry populism here in the UK and across Europe, a sort of anti-political mood and what then steps into that place? In one episode [of Black Mirror] you won't have seen, there's a very simple gaming gadget that turns out to be a monstrous idea, which I suspect we will end up doing for real.” IdeasRealEndsPoliticalTurnsBlackSimpleStepsEuropeMirrorsAngryMoodSuspectsEpisodesMonstrousGamingGadgetsPopulismAnti Political Author:Charlie Brooker
“As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.” IfsLongStillsIdeasRealityBlackChallengesCrazyMirrorsWhat If Author:Charlie Brooker
“I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.” ThinkingTryingStoriesBlackMessagesMirrors Author:Charlie Brooker
“What are people going to expect when they sit down to watch a new episode of Black Mirror? And what you're going to expect is somebody with a translucent TV in a drone strike and a robot walking by... or frowning at a phone and going 'aaah! Oh no! I've just deleted my own leg!' or whatever. So I thought well, let's not do that.” PeopleWellsBlackMy OwnWatchesTvsWalkingMirrorsPhonesLegsStrikesEpisodesRobotsDronesFrowning Author:Charlie Brooker
“I kept saying I want to do an episode that's set in the past, how do we do a period episode of Black Mirror? And simultaneously there was another idea we were thinking about and the two things sort of gelled and became San Junipero.” ThinkingWantTwoIdeasPastBlackPeriodsMirrorsTwo ThingsEpisodes Author:Charlie Brooker
“What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six stories this time around, so you don't want it to just be the devastating, bleak-em-up.” WantTryingStoriesBlackSixSeasonsMirrorsToneEmsVaryBleak Author:Charlie Brooker
“Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.” WayDoneStoriesRealityBlackConcernedMirrorsAuthenticity 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
“Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].” TryingForceBlackMirrorsRepeatsEvaluate Author:Charlie Brooker
