Black Mirror

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    It was a massive topic to try and do justice to in an hour - it would have been hard to make a workable character/plot arc even within a 2 or 3 hour movie - so much has to happen with and to characters to engage an audience enough to care about them, that trying to even scratch the surface of the implications of the technological topic was always going to be hard. Sci-fi like this is always about 90% run and 10% jump and shudder to think how much editing went on both during his script write and in the edit proper. The performances were good enough and the dialog was pretty authentic, an excellent job considering Brooker's real talent lies in invective, insight and acid critique at which he is unsurpassed.
    I'd like to see him try his hand over a series, 10 hours or so - his insight into human nature and the particularities of English people is well developed, but I think he's stifled by the 1 hour format. An excellent start, the 1st series and what I saw of this 2nd - I hope he's given a bigger format for S03.

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