In a 2013 interview with gaming games Talking about the second season of "Black Mirror", creator Charlie Brook revealed how his show almost borrowed the shameless device from Hit -Anthology in the 1960s "Dusk Zone". Just as the Showrunner Rod Serling would talk directly to the camera at the beginning and finish of each episode, Brooker almost did the same for each episode of the Black Mirror season 1.

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The main argument for this was that it would help ease much of the network concerns. Brooke explained that studios often do not want to make anthological shows partly because there are no recurrent characters for the audience to conclude, as it would be for any other TV series. The closest thing that the "black mirror" could have done - at least until he started playing around with extensions in season 7 -He needed to be thrown into repetitive character of the narrator.

"Rod Serling was a unifying character, in a way," Bruker told the "twilight zone". He grew up as they had Alfred Hitchcock and Roald Dal ended the same trick with their series of anthologywith similar fun results. After all, however, Brooker did not feel good. "If I did it, it would only be pure strange!" He was arguing. "And then, if we invented a character, why are they there?" Brooker obviously has great respect for the "twilight zone", but this was an element that he was simply not interested in wearing his spin.

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The big reason that Brooker left the idea is that he found another method to keep the network of ease: he will reduce the counting of the episode. "Initially we thought we would make eight episodes per season," he explained. "Then it became obvious that it was easier to do three - we had no budget and time to make eight, basically. And as soon as it went down to three episodes, it felt less necessary to have it." The show would eventually expand to six-episodes, but it was only after buying Netflix and given the huge budget boost. Brooker explained further:

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"What I felt pretty strong was really, when you think of the" twilight zone ", you don't really think of Rod Serling ... With" stories of the unexpected "you might think of Roald Dal, but that's not the quality you remember. You say things, 'go a little'Dusk zone "'' Because the play itself became the character you adjusted every week. Even if you didn't know what you would get, you knew there would be some tone ... The intention was that I hope it will become something when people see some eerie technological story, they will go, "Oh, it's a little bit"Black mirror!'"'

Surely, that's exactly what Charlie Brook achieved during the first few seasons of the series. By the time his channel 4 ended, With her Christmas special "White Christmas" in 2014, " Viewers were trained to prepare before a new episode began. They knew they could expect a cool speculative premise, a dark twist and the end of thinking. These were the real call cards on the show; When it comes to making a strong, lasting impression of pop culture, the "black mirror" did not need a narrator to pull it out.

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