Fuck Watching Black Mirror

Charlie Brooker’s show Black Mirror has been one of my “What to Watch" shows in the past and the show finally brought season 5 to life last summer. Sadly I was too wrapped up in traveling last summer, I never found the time to watch the season. Well, Brooker recently did an interview and said he’s definitely working during shelter in place, but there is NO WAY he’s going to be working on a sixth season of Black Mirror. I am here to say, thank you Charlie Brooker. What the world doesn’t need right now is a 6th season of the show. Fuck! We are living in a BLACK MIRROR episode. The White House briefings alone are straight out of of the show. The crazy instagram and tik tok posts are cut from the show itself. Black Mirror was designed to show how crazy and ridiculous the paths our society chooses can lead us towards pure chaos. It was supposed to shock us into thinking or rethinking. 

From 2011 to 2019 these tales haunted us. In 2020 these tales are now a reality. Don’t get me wrong, I love dark stories, I like shows, movies and articles that make consider the possibilities. When you are actually living in those times, it’s not a time to bask in “What If”. So thank you Charlie Brooker for not giving us another chapter of reality. Granted we are not living in times of great uncertainty like the holocaust or great plagues. Those realities were far too real and we need to remind ourselves of that REAL loss and REAL lessons of how they became to be. Honestly, Black Mirror is really a good way to shine a light on the lessons being overlooked today. That said, I did watch 2012 recently, yes I am that nuts! Shoot me, I am John Cusack fan, okay there I said it!