All right, I'm on the website I hate and you love dumb dummies and I'm going to endure humiliating tasks for payment.

And today it seems like I'm going to ask screenwriters questions.

Okay, let's get it over with.

Howdy.

I'm Jeff Goldsmith and this is the Q&A.

My agenda is simple.

Each week I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of storytelling. And folks, today I do humiliate

myself by worshipping at the altar of Black Mirror and the genius who created it. Charlie

Brooker, our guest, and wauza, season seven is absolutely fantastic and is completely

Emmy eligible, so I hope voters are paying attention to the fantastic writing at hand of

this long-running Netflix series. The direction, the acting, the writing especially, it's just

all crackling. And yeah, it's a challenge to focus

on an anthology show where there's new characters and storylines in every single episode

for many hours at hand. And don't worry, I failed. It was impossible to talk about all the

episodes. So we talked about a couple, and don worry, it's still turned into an engaging conversation

because without a doubt, Charlie Brooker is very forthcoming about his creative process,

so I know you'll dig this episode.

And speaking of things to dig, I hope you check out Backstory Magazine.

We turned 13 this year and we couldn't have done it without you.

Heck, it's my 20th year of podcasting and I certainly couldn't have done it without you.

So thanks for all that.

And some really cool news is that we are just on the cusp of publishing issue 56, which is our

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