“Black Mirror” isn’t simply in regards to the risks of expertise, in keeping with creator Charlie Brooker.
The Netflix showrunner responded to fan backlash that “Black Mirror” Season 6 has deserted its central theme of warning audiences in regards to the pitfalls of tech.
“It was positively a aware choice to barely upend what the present is,” Brooker instructed Games Radar. “It was attention-grabbing to form of reset issues in that approach. It was a palate cleanser, and it signifies that you’re then approaching all the opposite episodes from a barely totally different perspective.”
Brooker added, “There was a slight hazard that individuals have been bracketing [the series] because the ‘tech is unhealthy’ present – and I discovered {that a} bit irritating partly as a result of I at all times felt like, ‘Nicely the present isn’t saying tech is unhealthy, the present is saying individuals are fucked up’. So, , ‘Get it proper!’”
Brooker pointed to the “media commentary and satire” within the sixth season, in addition to an emphasis on private picture, identification, and notion.
“I assume elements of it are [about] the ache of a real-life factor turning into a kind of true crime documentary, like ‘Loch Henry’, or one thing extra playful, like ‘Joan is Terrible’, which is an existential nightmare, but it surely’s additionally to do with identification and management and all that beeswax,” Brooker continued. “On Netflix, they’re in reverse order to the way in which they have been written, as a result of ‘Demon 79’, which I co-wrote with Bisha Okay. Ali – who I feel is improbable – we wrote that as a ‘Pink Mirror’. I used to be virtually considering, ‘OK, let’s think about it’s a companion piece to Black Mirror.’”
“Black Mirror” Season 6 is now streaming on Netflix. Learn IndieWire’s assessment of the brand new episodes here, and see the place they rank among the many sequence general here.
