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There's the inevitable comparisons to The Twilight Zone, but Black Mirror is actually quite a bit more specific than that It's that intersection where the pace of technology outruns the ability of society to deal with it, and grim hilarity ensues — or horror, more likely, depending on your point of view. As creator Charlie Brooker[...]

The first episode of British sci-fi anthology TV show Black Mirror, by Charlie Brooker for Channel 4, is infamously gross. Spoilers below. Titled The National Anthem, the plot begins with the kidnap of a much loved British princess, as a blackmail threat is delivered to the British government It states that if the Princess is not to be killed, the Prime[...]

If you want to remain virgin pure before watching Black Mirror White Christmas on Channel 4 next week, then stop now But I think you're probably being a bit silly. Yesterday I attending a press screening fresh from the edit suite (to the extent that the very final scene still needed a little FX[...]

I just attended the press screening for Black Mirror: "White Christmas" This time I made it through with my own black mirror intact, and am on the 170 bus right now writing this article. There were Christmas crackers with jokes written by the show's writer Charlie Brooker,  a viewing of the feature length Christmas edition of the[...]

We've seen episode 1 of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, and spoken to the man himself about it It's pretty angry stuff, and funny with it. The first trailer gives a good hint of how Brooker himself fits into this "contemporary spin on The Twilight Zone," a horror with black comedy about our media-saturated information age. This will[...]