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Netflix's Black Mirror really isn't the show audiences think it is, says creator Charlie Brooker
The Netflix show isn't a warning about technology, it's "me worrying out loud," says Brooker about the acclaimed Black Mirror
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If there’s one thing that series creator Charlie Brooker doesn’t understand about Black Mirror, it’s the way that people have reacted to the dystopian sci-fi anthology series — and the message that they think it’s trying to send.
“The thing that I always find odd — and I understand why they do it — is when people say that Black Mirror is a warning,” Brooker told the Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t see that that’s my job, and that’s not what I’m trying to do. It’s me worrying out loud.”
He continued, “There are certainly things we’ve done in the show that I’m surprised by how quickly they become real. We did an episode with Hayley Atwell and Domhnall Gleeson called ‘Be Right Back.’ They’re a couple. He dies, and she’s offered this AI service that will emulate his personality. He sounds so similar, but he’s also a blander version of the real thing. And that’s worse than nothing at all. There’s now a service that kind of does that. The cynic in me says, ‘We should have fucking monetized that.’”
Black Mirror season 7 debuts on Netflix April 10.
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