Sweet Dystopian Christmas, we are getting twelve more episodes of Black Mirror. Netflix has ordered a dirty dozen of the show, which is…two times as many as currently exist. I love it.

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Black Mirror is some of the realest shit in a minute. Total MindPorn. And so I don’t give a shit how new episodes come into existence. Netflix. USA. BBC. Whatever.

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At its worst, science fiction (or just speculative fiction) is a Hollywood CGI robot punch to the balls. At its best, it’s Black Mirror. Last weekend a friend of mine from the UK recommended Black Mirror to me and the next day, I sat through all three episodes of the miniseries while experiencing a revolving series of reactions: shock, nervous laughter, welling up, and cursing our society for the hubristic turds we are. Black Mirror also renewed a bit of my hope that clever, original sci-fi can be done on television again (albeit overseas) without taking the ideas and simply injecting giant action set pieces.

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