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Black Mirror mastermind Charlie Brooker is used to reveling in dystopic misery, but sometimes even he is startled by real world events. On the day he Zooms me from his home in the UK, America’s east coast is covered in toxic Canadian wildfire smoke; he is curbing himself from making jokes about it. Then there […]
Courtesy of Nick Wall/Netflix SPOILER ALERT: These interviews contain spoilers from the Season 6 “Black Mirror” episodes “Joan Is Awful,” “Mazey Day” and “Beyond the Sea,” now streaming on Netflix. Back after a four-year hiatus, the long-awaited sixth season of “Black Mirror” opens — fittingly — with . . .
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One of the criticisms of the episode, which Charlie Brooker was actually happy to hear, was that viewers cared too much about the main character Stefan (Fionn Whitehead). After all, the young man was struggling with severe mental health issues, and he actively tried to resist many of the choices the audience picked for him. […]
When it comes to the dark side of social media, Brooker compares it to what he assumes things were like back when printing presses were first invented. “Back in the day, they probably disseminated ideas that were idiosyncratic and inflammatory. There would’ve been all sorts of disruption,” he said. “You would hope, long term, we’re going […]
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Photos: YouTubeTwitter And another sex scandal pops into the news. This time it’s the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, cringing in shame upon the recent release of a “bombshell” report detailing two decades of sexual abuse by pastors and other church officials, along with ongoing official coverup of the crimes and denigration […]
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