Black Mirror Analysis - Common People
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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00:00 Favorite Black Mirror episodes
01:18 Summary of the plot15:12 Reddit reviews
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30:24 Is this a possible future?
34:22 What does this episode say about our society?
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| 0:00.0 | So, Burdo, Black Mirror, it's been a long time since we've made episodes about it. |
| 0:05.0 | We used to make an episode, I believe, about every single Black Mirror episode. |
| 0:10.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:11.4 | And then I think we stopped in 2019. |
| 0:14.6 | I didn't realize that Black Mirror has been on for almost 15 years. |
| 0:17.9 | Okay, so when I re-I went back and re-watched the nosedive episode, |
| 0:24.7 | thinking, well, that one's kind of a recent one. Yeah. That is from like 2015. |
| 0:31.1 | 2016. 2016. That's nine years ago. Yeah. I was like, what? Yeah. |
| 0:42.8 | So I thought it's been a long time, and I was watching season seven, which just came out on Netflix, and I thought, let's talk about it with Brito. |
| 0:46.7 | Although, did we do an episode on Joan as awful? |
| 0:49.5 | I think we did just an episode on Joan as awful. |
| 0:51.3 | We didn't do all of season six? |
| 0:52.9 | I don't know. |
| 0:53.6 | Okay. |
| 0:53.9 | But let's get into it. |
| 0:54.9 | Episode one, common people, what do you say, Berto? Let's do it. This is the Psychology in Seattle |
| 1:01.2 | podcast. I'm your host. Dr. Kirk Honda, I'm a therapist and a professor, and my new favorite |
| 1:07.5 | two episodes of Black Mirror are White Christmas and Eulogy with Paul Giamatti. |
| 1:12.9 | Who are you, Berdo? |
| 1:13.9 | My name is Umberto Castagnan, and I pick up skipped rocks. |
| 1:17.7 | So episode one, season seven, 20, 25, starring Rashid Jones and Chris O'Dowd, written by |
| 1:25.3 | Charlie Brooker, the showrunner. |
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