BFI Q&A - Be Right Back | Black Mirror

[@dionegbama]

Be Right Back is my favorite episode. It broke my heart.

[@stephenglynn4449]

Hats off to everyone involved in Black Mirror... The series is one of the most thought provoking and original things i have seen on TV for many a year... Great actors, script is fab.... When i finish an episode it always leaves me thinking....

[@Vosk21]

Black Mirror is a show that somehow feels both pragmatic and idealistic at the same time. charlie brooker is a genius when it comes to writing human characters and 6 episodes was enough to absolutely floor me. all i can say is i am both anxiously anticipating and somehow dreading the next episodes, and there aren't a lot of shows that can boast that kind of experience. 10/10

[@DanS1]

Charlie Brooker is a genius

[@schecter1425]

Insanity is an escape. This is the only show that has ever truly moved me at an emotional level.

[@Milena24521]

after watching black mirror episodes i constantly have the impression that i am going mad.

[@Nikitoz9595]

I love this feeling. I don't like "sweet" happy endings where everybody is happy. I prefer these dark and disturbing endings. I am fucked up I guess :D

[@spinningbackkick6021]

Then its doing its job..

[@jokerofMI6]

You might not be, but the world most likely is.

[@ChristopherHunterMyers]

Best show in forever imo.

[@kellydelay18]

Just binge watched all 6 and the one extra . Truly amazing found it hard to sleep after watching . The most disturbing for me was "white bear" holy crap!!

[@jamesshyla]

yeah me to..i watched all 7 eps back to back wen i shudve bin asleep..strangly surreal n sinister..truely genius writing

[@reksub10]

I watched the 6 episodes back to back.couldn't find the Xmas special....can you remember what it was called .cheers.

[@jamesshyla]

Black mirror white christmas

[@reksub10]

james crowley thank you JC. appreciated.

[@jamesshyla]

+reksub no probs..for those who dont already know the episodes are available on netflix..took a while for any none UK network to take em up..which was strange becus alot of folks had no way of watching it without illegal viewing

[@slipknotfatman]

This show is one of them fantastic things about the world that keeps it interesting, it really needs to come back because Brookers vision of a darker world is almost beautifully disgustingly true

[@blodstrm]

You should watch it, your mind will be blown to bits.

[@CharKearney]

His story about the number deleting of a lost one has made me break down in to tears, a friend of mine died a year ago, and every text we've sent to one another is still there on my phone. Its a visual memory of what we had, I couldn't possibly get rid of it.

[@WilmoTheBear]

Black Mirror is always such a fucking blast, not pulling any punches, more like driving them through your skull, Great stuff!

[@PausePressPlay]

Just overdosed on the whole six series and the special. This stuff is far out and deep. Much of it reminds me of the Twilight Zone with its creeping sense of impending doom, you know a sorry fate awaits its characters but what, and it always twists. It's eery and creepy with a scary use of technology and great ideas. Really makes you think about the future and our relationships with technology.

[@ThatNerdyGeekyGuy]

Black Mirror is Brooker at his finest. Visually beautiful with amazing scripting.

[@AidSta666]

Let's be honest.. Charlie Brooker is a bit of a legend.

[@marcuschristopherday]

What is this? A table for ants?!

[@lyl14ghost]

LOL indeed small table.

[@MrBronwaugh]

I would hold your breath for a while. But, yes, I agree - Black Mirror has been superb.

[@SuperPavilions]

Interesting stuff! Nice to hear Charlie et al discuss the programme. More of these please!

[@TheRatFromHell]

Isn't that the point? You don't know what your going to get which is what makes both series so good. The advert followed the theme of black mirror, surely that's all you need.

[@LynneHand]

I loved this series. Just superb story telling.

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

It's well worth watching. Especially this episode if you liked the interview.

[@EmilyWalters]

So adorable at the end there.

[@Trudon]

utopia and black mirror have been the best tv this year

[@gmale9000]

Watch it then. Second episode of the first series is my favorite.

[@Hoodoo123]

Love this series, brilliant. It does remind me of "Tales of the Unexpected" though!

[@2600case]

you really should start watching it ... it's really good

[@spiffcorgi]

I much preferred this series to the last one. Not only were the ideas much better but they were executed much more efficiently.

[@FreakinSweet86]

He also did a terrific job playing Eric Morcombe in a BBC Drama some time ago.

[@ConstantContext]

how could one dislike this? you'd have to be against thinking about reality to dislike this

[@ConstantContext]

***** first thing, are you male or female, second, give a specific example of pay off not being achieved, cuz unless this exact scenario of this episode was already in your mind specifically your mind Nikki Duncan then the payoff itself would be the scenario but if you already had thought of every detail of this episode then you would have reason to be annoyed simply because you've clearly been plagiarized. Are you a subscriber to my channel cuz i don't know how you managed to figure out that term of endearment at the end of your question.

[@ConstantContext]

***** also can you provide a link and or print example of what you consider to be the opposite of "weak nonsense" or are you just simply a troll and this is what you do? I haven't checked out your profile but the eventually see what things you do like in then obviously create a composition psychological dossier of your sensibility but then again always great to meet new people Nicki don't getting

[@Imyournewpeppep]

If Hayley Atwell was looking at me the way she is at 7:55 I think I would die

[@BillieJolene1]

CHARLIE RULES!!! Seriously if his name is associated with it, it's probably VERY GOOD. I mean EXTREMELY GREAT!!!

[@SimonGreensocialmarketing]

Did you have the 10 o clock news over there with Brooker, Jimmy Carr and David Mitchell?. Was done live, a satirical, cynical look at the days news with interviews, very funny, and very well presented considering it was broadcast live.

[@BillieJolene1]

LOVE 10 O'clock live!!!! Jimmy Carr and David Mitchell are awesome!!! Another awesome comedian from across the pond is Frankie Boyle!!!! He is hilarious!

[@SimonGreensocialmarketing]

Frankie Boyle can be funny but has been hammered a few times here for over stepping the mark. Its very rare you see him on tv these, on the comedy show circuit after making jokes about an specific autistic child. you have a good taste in comedy. FYI, just watching QI.. i dont know whether you get thta over there either?.

[@BillieJolene1]

STEPHEN FRY IS GOD!!! Love him. We don't actually get those shows over here but thank goodness for the people who are kind enough to down load them to KZbin. Nevermind the buzzcocks used to be awesome when Simon Amstell was hosting. Haven't watched that in ages though.

[@SimonGreensocialmarketing]

BillieJolene1 lol you must have a very British sense of humour :)

[@spyglass123]

make more series charlie!

[@mollysmithanderson2951]

God I love black mirror

[@cmhonsu33]

15 million merits and white bear are the best episodes so far

[@spiffcorgi]

White bear is the best Black Mirror yet in my opinion.

[@MrMangust121]

i couldn't agree more

[@Onmysheet]

I've just started Utopia, great up to now. Which one you thinks better?

[@mark33850]

And I wish we had more....

[@shadina100]

I was reading all of the comments as the video started and I didn't know which female panelist was Haley Atwell. I got distracted from watching, but I had the audio playing in the background. All of a sudden, I am hearing this start-stop, scatter-brain sourced chatting in my ear. So no, it's not just you.

[@SSCFPA]

Brooker himself said that watching 'Tales Of The Unexpected' as a kid did inspire Black Mirror. That and old 'Twilight Zones'.

[@theentertainmentjunk]

I thought that was arguably the best one yet. There is something about the type of satire we see presented (and I am sure brooker is very much aware he is a part of this) that just cynically looks at politics but then takes nothing out of it. Waldo is what'll happen if we allow satire stoop to the same norms as infantile reality tv. Plus the main actor was brilliant

[@dimabbq]

Modern masterpieces of telly...

[@Tinker2060]

I knew star jumpers would come back:)

[@robertadme]

If Black Mirror had a cast it would actually be the saddest thing on earth, just for a second imaging everything that happens in the show to just one or two person, literally hell on earth

[@Hoodoo123]

It would be brilliant!

[@bobbastian760]

This is what happens if you put lipstick on using a black mirror....

[@jwsmite]

as he ends there you can see he's having a real internal critic vs artist battle with himself

[@Liusila]

That's an interesting comparison!

[@aikighost]

Hayley Atwell is in Mission impossible 7 & 8 I have no doubt she will be awesome )

[@petrinasmith6853]

I actually saw a documentary about someone that was developing this kind of program. I wish I could remember the name of it. They were taking the person's social media posts and basically making a digital copy of that person. They were talking about people setting it up for when after they die, then they have something to talk to their friends and family to kind of be a comfort I guess. Very interesting idea.

[@vivavaldez87]

Did the Synthetic Ash put Haley's lipstick on? Actually given his access to the internet he probably would be more proficient at it...

[@ethangans9642]

I am writing a research paper on the topic of AI/robot/robotic-human intimacies. Anyone know where I could find more information concerning the 'social experiment' that Hayley Atwell talks about at 4:00. Let me know, thanks

[@leeprew]

A pretty fair comparison. And I would say Charlie Brooker has a similar impish manor as did Roald Dahl. I wonder what a children's book written by Charlie would be like?

[@5oupFTW]

Just listened to a 10 minute interview about a show I don't even watch.

[@zugisskates7262]

I love this director, he is very twisted and very good at making a disturbing creepy future of the human race with technology, especially the one where a girl wakes up in that house in the fake acted Apocalypse over and over again and humiliated. And the one human race is over took by media and trapped in rooms with screens everywhere.

[@khajiit92]

i think the main difference is black mirror tends to be 'if we slip just a little more' whereas the other stuff is 'if we keep slipping like this for a while' (based on 1984, i don't know about metropolis/ year of the sex olympics).

[@Greed23]

I love how aware Brooker is of how easy it to 'sound like a prick' when over-intellectualising television.

[@sg137iu]

You should watch it. If "Be Right Back" affected you, "White Bear" will blow your mind.

[@returnoftheredeye]

I've really enjoyed Black Mirror generally, but I wasn't sure about the last one. (The Waldo Movement)

[@applemask]

Is this the Matthew Sweet who's done some Big Finish audios?

[@stonerh]

This raises a good question: How long do you have to wait after someone dies before it is appropriate/acceptable to delete their number from your phone?

[@nonelefttotry]

Hailey Atwell is like Billie Piper 2.0

[@TheDanielShepherd]

the fella of the BT internet adverts you mean?

[@AirQuotes]

did they do any Q/As for any of the other episodes

[@TheCulturalBomb]

Terror at 10,000 feet or something I believe. Genuinely chilling.

[@luke-alex]

The ending of this clip

[@kingdarko]

No the advert promised more than the show produced, there was riots in a city and then an almost apocalyptic cloud. I get the themes and see the relation but the advert was bigger in scale hence why it was such a let down. If you compare it to the first seasons promo you'll see that one did not over sell it.

[@sheps145]

10:02 It's only ever Charlie that will stop himself talking and state that he "sounds like a prick". Great series, great team, great interview.

[@Trudon]

i'm so late on top boy. i haven't even seen season 1 yet.

[@sivar4465]

it already exists an app called 'replica'

[@ScotVideos]

Episode 1 and 3 of series one were under fifty minutes long.

[@moeezS]

"I sound like a prick". It's like Brooker fighting with his ego in a self-deprecating fist fight.

[@amiclarehutton8689]

lol me and my pals slimmed down to a medium to see if we would be psychic in that size.

[@Vitto0606]

No surprise the series was inspired by that book

[@RealmRunner94]

The episode 15 million merits was 62minutes long all these new episode are under 44minutes seems like the are making them shorter

[@RafaelLSmith]

anyone seen that new GCI Audery Hepburn Galaxy advert?...that combined with this, makes me think that maybe one day your dead mother will call you up and remind you to shop at Sainsburys.

[@iamadamsusername]

Then why are you watching videos with him in it?

[@johnchambers405]

10:10-10:15 Love him

[@ukstevey]

The episodes are a little bit hit and miss but a very interesting show, nothing else really like it on TV.

[@manicmurph]

It's crazy because my cable and internet went out last night, and I realized how much we do depend on technology and our phones and t.v. It's like what the hell did I used to do back in the day when this shit wasn't out? I was younger and had more friends so I'd be outside a lot. Or play my guitar. But yes we are so dependent on technology it's kind of disgusting if you think about it. The government is just trying to make people dumber it seems like. They even make kids in school require tablets on their school supply list nowadays. Now that's just ridiculous. The world is going to be a bunch of lazy bums in the future I think. I just have a feeling kind of like this black mirror show suggests, is that the technology while it seems all cool, is really going to slowly dumb down the population until where like drooling zombie like idiots. IDK, just my opinion.

[@foghornfoggyface]

Tablets being on kids schools supply lists what? Never heard of that and I've already decided I'm not getting my kids any gadgets or phones until they're teenagers. They can have the same as I had growing up which was a family gaming console for everyone to play and use together. The worst problem I have with technology these days is when you're with people trying to hang out, conversations, play games etc and their eyes are constantly glued to their phones.

[@miiiikku]

Miroir Noir

[@BEastmix]

There they were, all sat behind the shortest table in the world...

[@SamJamwich1]

"and I thought... what if all these people where dead!"

[@kingdarko]

The advert miss sold this series, which was a let down.

[@Greed23]

Like I just did.

[@FrogmortonHotchkiss]

Why are artists so bloody reluctant to state any conclusions these days? It's always hedged with this lawyer speak that invites you to 'draw your own conclusions'. It's not that I think art can't stand uncertainty; I just dislike disingenuous talk. I think Charlie Brooker actually has personal angst at the idea that we might boil down to responses a machine could learn, which makes us essentially void. He feels that technology highlights this and possibly exacerbates it. That's what it's about.

[@chunkiesome7133]

LOL ! How can the people drink if they cant even hold the cups or fit at the table. Zoolander ;P

[@RandomVortex]

Tales of the unexpected(sorry just had to get that out of my system.) Trancendence with Jonathan Depp kinda springs to mind.

[@babyshambler]

Likeable, isn't he, Charlton?

[@bigjoshgraffiti]

Greetz an alle aus dem Englisch LK

[@JohnHirstUK]

Who put that fucking table cloth on?

[@cmhonsu33]

but this episode represents so much especially the speech by the main character when hes on stage. /watch?v=tY5It0jnD6M

[@JulianneHannes]

It's like the Twilight Zone but unlike Twilight Zone it has so so few episodes, I wish it would have the American season of 22eps instead of the British season of under 10eps. There's unlimited potential that can really benefit from having a 22 episode season. I hope Neflix orders as much episodes as humanly possible.

[@clintflicker7682]

+Julianne Hannes stupid twat thats why american shows lack quality

[@JulianneHannes]

Clint Flicker​ There's no need to call me a twat, completely unneccesary. It's okay to disagree but there's no need to crudely insult me. Crude insults don't make your opinions heard, in fact it drives people to ignore your opinion. You're actually doing a great disservice to yourself. An American schooling a Brit on basic etiquette, Hell really has frozen over.

[@keithbentley6081]

@@JulianneHannes An American schooling a Brit on basic etiquette. Let me school you on something else. Britain is not in any way the same as the Hollywood stereotype. It is actually as miserable, deprived and exploitative towards its own citizens as the USA. The figures for every indicator pf deprivation and wealth inequality such as teenage pregnancy, wages out of line with inflation, murder, violent crime etc, are the highest in Western Europe.

[@ivejustseen]

loving Charlie Brooker's new series - check out my video reviews of Be Right Back and White Bear on my youtube channel user/ivejustseen

[@Trudon]

utopia was quality

[@Biozim98]

@Russkiy Smiffy Disagree.

[@charizardchareloross]

Fuck sake. Cant they just accept the fact that it hasn't been produced for yet, another empathetic diversion or escapism from reality, like most TV shows. And appreciate what Charlie Brooker has actually created. A classic cynical interpretation of how shit the futures going to be. Nothing more, nothing less really.

[@JackCooksonMusic]

charlie likes to touch his hair

[@jimbillinski]

charlie brooker is one of the best talents on tv. his screenwipe series is awesome. but the only downside to this genius, is that he his buddies with the annoying unfunny jimmy carr

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

It's strangely disconcerting listening to Charlie Brooker speaking without vitriolic sarcasm.