A common misconception about the "black mirror" is that the main thesis of the show is no longer tinted by "bad phone". And, certainly, some episodes seem to fall into that trap - Take a look at the Season 5 of "Smithereens", An episode that is basically a long "don't write and drive" PSA - but for the most part, the show doesn't settle for a message so simple. The problem is almost always people, not technology. Memory improvement technology in Crocodile, for example, seems like a clear network positive to society, just as the VR reality game in the USS Callister certainly looks like a fun time, if not for Robert shares to destroy it.

The creator "Black Mirror", Charlie Brook, was quite clear about this in his interviews over the years. "The villain is never technology," he said in an interview for 2014"And I always think it's really boring. If I see a scientific movie and there's like the evil genius, 'ha, ha, i'll launch this job, I'll rat everyone." I really can't refer to it.

This attitude is seen in the title of the play itself, which does not apply to technology, but to what it looks like when technology is turned off and everything left alone, staring at you. "When the screen is turned off, it looks like a black mirror because every TV, any LCD, any iPhone, any iPad, something similar," Brooker said. "If you just stare at it, it looks like a black mirror and has something cold and frightening to it."

Another misconception about the "black mirror" is that the play is trying to "predict the future" in any important way. Whenever news comes out of a prison, making their prisoners drive Bicycles that generate electricityor whenever they are Boston's robotic dogs dynamics Make the news again, people talk (sometimes joking, sometimes not) for Charlie Brooker to be some sort of sorcerer. But Brooker was never interested in trying to get the future; He was focused on taking the problems of nowadays and exploring them to their logical conclusions. It is an approach he borrowed from the previous anthology TV series, the "Dusk Zone". As explained in the same interview for 2014:

"You look at the" twilight zone ", it all talks about communism, psychology, space travel, all these things that were modern worries at the time. And, it's a kind of how it informed that side of the black mirror, a type of technological focus or background of many stories. But said that the "national anthem" is not a particularly technological story. That's just a lack of lack of today's world.

You can see the changes of concerns about the time reflected in how the "black mirror" develops over the years. Previous seasons seemed more concerned about social media, in particular, and the way they encourage otherwise beautiful people to participate in massive computer attack campaigns, even if they did not realize them. ("National Anthem", "Bell Bear", "Silent and Dance" and "Hated in the Nation" all are basically for this.) But as the series took place, it is becoming more interested in artificial intelligence. "Anoan is terrible", "Hotel Reveriri" and "Playing" are fascinated by the idea of ​​technology Taking your own lifeCreating allegedly real human ties through a bunch and zeros.

What kind of social concern "Black Mirror" will become fascinated in the next few seasons? For one, I am very nervous to figure out.