“In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.” PeopleWayLittlesBigsGamesBrotherClubsSillyHolidayRemoveBatsCricketFlirtingPresent DayOrganisedSilly LittleSunbathing Book:Dawn of the Dumb Source: Dawn of the Dumb
“Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.” PeopleWayTechnologyWorryDevicesAltered Author:Charlie Brooker
“Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.” IfsWayYearsTwoKidsLevelsFourStageDrawsLettersWowFour YearsIntroducingPencilsInterventionAlphabetGamingIpadsTerminology Author:Charlie Brooker
“I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.” WayKidsNextRoomsYoutubeTrailersCarpenterAlgorithms 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
“I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.” WayMeanSometimesStoriesSatireAnthemNational AnthemMisanthropicCaustic 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
“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
“Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.” WayWishFrontsBoxesStringsLeapTransformed Author:Charlie Brooker
