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    Yes, I know we're living in a Black Mirror episode. I still want dystopian TV, though | Jessa Crispin

    Our entertainment overlords think we can’t handle darkness right now. I beg to differ
    by Jessa Crispin May 11, 2020 3 minutes
    ‘I for one urge our creators to bring on the darkness.’ Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images

    Yeah yeah yeah, I know, it’s like we’re living in a Black Mirror episode. We’ve got headless robot dogs patrolling Singaporean parks to enforce social distancing, we’re all trapped on social media which is now just a rolling cancellation colosseum where soon each user will have their time of standing before the masses and hearing exactly what everyone thinks of them, and who needs killer bee drones when we have murder hornets.

    If we have Black Mirror on our news do we really need Black Mirror on our to Radio Times saying he doesn’t think audiences would have the stomach for a dystopia right now, as we seem to be living through the beginning stages of societal collapse with our pandemic lockdowns and mass unemployment.

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