Blightyvision: Black Mirror
Created by Charlie Brooker Written by Charlie Brooker (“The National Anthem” and “15 Million Merits”), Konnie Huq (“15 Million Merits”), and Jesse Armstrong (“The Entire History of You”) Starring Rory Kinnear and Lindsey Duncan (“The National Anthem”), Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Brown-Findlay (“15 Million Merits”), Toby Kebbell and Jodie Whittaker (“The Entire History of You”) […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian · Tagged with: black comedy, charlie brooker, dark comedy, rory kinnear, satire, technology, utterly horrifying
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: PlayStation’s latest “game” gets rave reviews
The [Firmware] game features a robust moral choice system, where your actions really do affect the world. Do you accept the User Agreement, or don’t you? This was an agonizing decision, since you never know what could happen later. I remember that unbelievable moment in Firmware 2.0, where I accepted the User Agreement and the […]
In: Around the Intertubes, News · Tagged with: hack attack, PlayStation, quotes, satire
Blightyvision: “Brass Eye”
Directed by Michael Cumming Written by Arthur Mathews and Christopher Morris Starring Christopher Morris and Mark Heap When you specialize in niche entertainment — and in the US, UK television tends (rather unfortunately) to be “niche” — you discover that things tend to only fly under the radar within your own fandom for one of […]
In: Columns, Television: British and Canadian · Tagged with: Brass Eye, no R1 for you, satire, Simon Pegg