We’ve Entered The Desert Of The Surreal
We’re giving up family formation, faith, and the everlasting for the likes, the upvotes, and the daily ever-present memeification.
Black Mirror Series 5 Is Less Tech-Focused And More Character-Driven
This might be the least ‘Black Mirror’-ish series to date, and a possible start to the show’s mature period. That’s a good thing.
Black Mirror’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Movie ‘Bandersnatch’ Is A Technical Tour De Force
‘Bandersnatch’ is a breakthrough experiment in audience interactivity, and driving Internet obsessives to geek out over its endless potential story permutations.
China Is Rolling Out The Most Massive Population Surveillance System In The World
‘People who travel without a ticket, or behave disorderly or smoke in public area will be punished according to regulations.’
‘Black Mirror’ Suggests Technology Is Actually More Dangerous For Parents Than For Kids
Technological tools parents even a decade ago didn’t possess are empowering us to micromanage our children all the way into adulthood and beyond.
Uneasy Techno-Fear Gives Way To Existential Terror In Season 4 Of ‘Black Mirror’
The series taps into a timeless, primitive fear of being trapped in the digital hells we’ve constructed — minds with no bodies, no agency.
‘Black Mirror’ Is Right: ‘Emergency Contraception’ Can Cause Abortion
A Friday episode of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ angered ardent pro-choicers with a storyline focused on emergency contraception such as Plan B.
‘The Circle’ Is Imperfectly Executed, But Still Eerily Relevant
The film doesn’t really do full justice to its source material. But it’s still highly watchable, and succeeds as a powerful conversation starter.
If You’re Looking For Dark Satire, ‘Black Mirror’ Has You Haunted
In ‘Black Mirror’ we’ve built our own prisons of screen-saturated soft authoritarianism, still struggling to harness the technological appendages we’ve grafted onto our all-too-human selves.
‘Black Mirror’ Tries And Fails To Make A Heaven On Earth
Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ presents a sober look at what kind of salvation people seek when it’s no longer reasonable to believe in God.
David Cameron Didn’t Pork That Pig, But The Internet Doesn’t Really Care
David Cameron’s PigGate is just like the television show Black Mirror, but not in the way people think. And not in a way that reflects well on us.