337: 20 Minutes Into the Future

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Brooker’s anthology TV series “Black Mirror” has been compared to “The Twilight Zone”, with its dark, twist-laden tales about the advance of technology and how it affects society. Does it live up to the hype? Our panel watched all 13 episodes—all currently available on Netflix—and is here to report back on the strengths and weaknesses of the series. We also discuss our five favorite episodes in detail, so you can skip to the highlights if you don’t want to utterly darken your soul.

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 337, January 2017.
0:07.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable. My name is Jason Snell, and I am here to discuss a television series called Black Mirror, which means that what's going to happen is that you're going to be vaguely uneasy for
0:23.3	the first half hour. Then there will be a twist that you might have seen coming. And by the end,
0:29.9	you will not be sad if humanity wipes itself off the face of the earth. That's how it'll go.
0:34.9	And joining me to talk about black Mirror are the following fine people.
0:39.0	David J. Lorre, hello.
0:40.7	Hello.
0:41.6	What if podcast, but too much?
0:46.6	I'd also like to introduce a simulacrum based on the social media postings of Brian Hamilton, Brian Hamilton.
0:53.6	I wish it could be Christmas every day.
0:57.4	And except no substitutes, he is not a robot, John Syracusa.
1:02.6	Human nature, am I right, Jason?
1:04.4	Yeah, human nature, but too much.
1:07.8	Too much.
1:09.5	We are the real monsters.
1:12.7	The real monsters.
1:14.7	Oh, wait, wrong show.
1:16.9	So this, uh, this show, Black Mirror is, uh, largely written by Charlie Brooker.
1:22.4	And it premiered on channel four in the UK, or as I to say BBC Channel 4 because again I don't I'm
1:28.5	an American I think it's all a BBC over there and then uh was very successful on Netflix streaming
1:33.7	in the US and so Netflix sort of stole it from them and uh last fall released a third season of
1:41.6	six episodes and uh fourth season is forthcoming in 2017, I believe.
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