Charlie Brooker Talks Black Mirror | EITF 2017

[@schambess]

I could listen to Charlie Brooker all day long. Looking forward to the fourth season :)

[@pseudonayme7717]

*fourth

[@schambess]

thanks :)

[@schambess]

;)

[@bonnie43uk]

Philipp Acker His Desert Island Discs episode on the website is well worth listening to.

[@Walkwithyourselfforever]

Who’s looking forward to season 6 next month 202333333 🎉 Can’t wait

[@DodderingOldMan]

Goddamn Charlie's a genius. It's been a real journey to watch him evolve from the guy who did those surprisingly funny comic ads in Mean Machines Sega (not that I knew it at the time), to cantankerous pop culture commentator, to really successful cantankerous pop culture commentator, to one of the best TV writers of recent decades. What a legend.

[@greenaum]

Those ads were while he was working in Computer Exchange (now "Cex") on Tottenham Court Road. I read his strips in Oink comic as a kid, having no idea the then-16-year-old Charlie would grow up to do Cex adverts.

[@Dousch]

Brilliance, so much of it in one hour, and a host who really gets it. Thank you for this.

[@WalterLiddy]

Black Mirror is great. It's so good to see that Brooker isn't just a sour critic who can point out everything crappy about other people's work - he can put his money where his mouth is and produce some of the best television ever.

[@garethm3242]

YES

[@rosed9628]

'If I get enthused about the unpleasantness of a scenario, I know I'm inching in the right direction...' Charlie Brooker is awesome

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Yes!

[@oliverhayhoe]

I now want to see a Black Mirror episode about the dangers of Wagon Wheels.

[@greenaum]

Did he mean the technology, the wooden round type, or the chocolate snack that isn't as big as it used to be?

[@tashazalinski5250]

so weird that Charlie Brooker is from my village and went to my school. now here he is making incredible television and talking to Sue Perkins

[@Brennan163]

I love Brooker's analysis of every Black Mirror character's arc. They learn that it's worse than they feared. Perfect.

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

13:45 "I'd read somewhere somebody moaning that because we'd gone to Netflix, was the show going to become completely Americanised? So I thought, well fuck you then. Set in California. Eat that." I fucking love Charlie Brooker.

[@crobinso2010]

The product he mentions at 9:15 is the "Samsung bum sung" I believe.

[@DaveDexterMusic]

You got the title wrong and missed out Annabel's name, somehow. Weird given that they're a partnership and it's not just Charlie talking.

[@2nd3rd1st]

Quite sure they didn't miss that. I allege a purpose.

[@RobertSlover]

the male patriarchy.....

[@snowman01]

i know right!? who cares if charlie brooker is the well-known creative force behind the series??

[@RobertSlover]

wow thats a dumb thing to say.....

[@rorybutcher5909]

While they're both showrunners, he actually writes it. I can see why they've just used his name, for that reason, however I agree they probably should have used her name too.

[@MichaelWebb_Psyco-Bob]

Only discovered this little gem of a series yesterday. Watched the 1st episode & then promptly streamed & watched all 4 seasons that have aired so far. Charlie Brooker has created a deeply scary (not in the Horror genre sense), highly watchable series. Long may he stay at the absolute top of the program creating Gods.

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Awesome

[@lewisbarrah8804]

I loved this. Intelligent questions and brilliant answers from everybody. Black mirror continues to blow me away.

[@PornCat1]

@29:24 he forgot to mention the most obvious track, "Girlfriend In a Coma"!

[@The482075]

Please could Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones write a Doctor Who story? It could be a single episode or a two partner. I don't have a story idea. These two work best when they are left to their own devices.

[@rainbowjo78]

Bobby Ranger he was asked to write an episode but was too busy and they haven't asked again.

[@The482075]

Someone told me that. Best keep the option open.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Why would they write the bullshit dr who is now, than black mirror ???????????????????????

[@mojevalka]

now these two shows combined, that would be really awesome.. i do not mind about who is Who, but i really want her/his companion to be Philomena Cunk :D

[@robertmcelwaine7024]

One of the episodes that's so believable in you could potentially see it happening is, Shut and Dance. It's so rooted in reality and has a similar kind of ending to White Bear where everything wasn't quite as how as you initially thought you had seen it to be.

[@TemplarBard]

When you hear an interesting conversation with interesting, intelligent people, how can you go back to ITV?

[@pseudonayme7717]

You really want the Gogglebox/EastEnders people to start watching real television programmes? What do you imagine they would make of it? :D

[@MrVoola]

+Psuedonayme 77 "Eh not sure about this Brenda love turn't t'over doctor foster is on

[@rmilrta]

Hanniffy I can't tell if you're serious. Bloody nasty commenting either way.

[@jotade2098]

Arrogance and Ignorance are good friends, Hanniffy Dinn. You must be familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect, since you are "clearly in the educated 1%".

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Well then, I have a degree from literally a global top 1% university, and I've made 1 million in 18 months. So I am factually in the top 1%. So it seems you don't know much about Cognitive Biases. Knowing your ability and education isn't something I'm over or under estimating, it's purely factual.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

So pleased twilight zone, the outer limits, tales of the unexpected et al is back in black mirror. I mean as a kid you really remembered that shit. So kids will have some nostalgia .....

[@Charontes]

Oh great, two of my favourite people. Now I have to watch this.

[@juhogrubert7065]

What should I watch if this was my first exposure to Annabel Jones?

[@Swaggerpede]

those wider shots show that there arent many people in the audience, where is everyone? its such a fantastic show i'd expect it to be rammed!

[@gaiuscaligula2229]

I was terrified of Electricity aged 7 after watching a video about the danger of sub-stations in school where a kid kicks his football over into the station, climbs over to get it and exploded after touching something. There was another one where another kid climbed a Pylon to get a kite and had a similar experience of death.

[@PurushaDesa]

A _Wagon Wheel_ is a big flat chocolatey biscuit filled with mallow and jam in case some people were wondering.

[@tknighty237]

Black mirror is a great show. I hope in the future there will be more stuff like it.

[@WalterLiddy]

In the future, the world will be like it.

[@milanalexich6149]

San Juinepero makes me cry.

[@elemkay5104]

It's interesting that Charlie sees the ending of San Juipero as a 'Happy ending'. I thought the beauty of it was that it was so damn ambiguous... like it could be happy, if that's what you wanted, or maybe you'd get sick of it... maybe they DO get sick of it further down the line...

[@andrzejnowak4315]

maybe that's the idea for the sequel

[@mekonta]

Gave me a giggle to hear the 80s British comic 'OINK!', Brooker's first payed job, get a mention at the Emmys :D

[@bernlin2000]

This show is a masterpiece. On par with the early seasons of "House of Cards" in the brilliance of its scripts and dialogue. The technology is tons of fun, too: "A History of You" especially hits close to home (the male character treats, and abuses, the technology in a way I think a lot of us would get caught up doing) 47:43 Lol...well that was disappointing

[@JJBinxyboo]

Hurray!

[@ItVex]

omg the trump joke at 54.30 is epic

[@samuelotte3295]

How about a periodic "Black Mirror" feature film!

[@liamolaoghaire]

Does anyone know which part of Black Museum Penn came up with?

[@greenaum]

The story about the doctor was an original short story by Penn. The rest of it, including the framing device of the museum, is all Charlie's work.

[@tatianablackthorn2528]

Am I the only one who misses Sue on TGBBO?

[@pseudonayme7717]

You are the only one who WATCHES that, so yes :) I love Sue too btw, but won't watch any prog just cos she's in it.

[@drdassler]

Tatiana Grimm I miss her on Light Lunch.

[@fazsaeed]

56:56 I love how Anabell goes "Oh no!" when Charlie Brooker goes, "I just realized what Donald Trump would say if he was fucking that pig." It was more like, "Oh no, here we go again!"

[@kilgoreplumbus1360]

Damn Laurence Fishburne got white. Great talk and I can't wait to be bummed out by more Black Mirror.

[@lancegringo4691]

I think you meant to say that you can't wait to be bummed.

[@tmystery9505]

Not only Charlie Brooker is being interviewed, is his PARTNER Annabel not there???

[@greenaum]

Yeah but she doesn't have the name draw that Charlie does, most people haven't heard of her.

[@tmystery9505]

greenaum So?? Then start giving her the credit she deserves. That is such bullshit

[@boggers]

Charlie mentions people pitching him ideas for black mirror episodes. How would one go about this? I assume his agents would filter out those kinds of messages...

[@robmorris844]

Wish there was an interview about how Nathan Barley has actually happened now.

[@The482075]

I normally don't care about spoilers. A lot of films and television shows are so predictable that spoilers are not really that big a deal. However Black Mirror's formula lives and dies on that third act reveal. That trailer is spoiler heavy. I am glad I did not see the trailer before watching the show.

[@greenaum]

The trailer's a load of 1-second glimpses edited together. It doesn't give away anything far as I can tell.

[@Gabriel-bk3lm]

here's a dilemma. dark twists make for more powerful emotional impact than happy endings. psychological challenges make you remember the show better, i suppose

[@NewMessage]

What if a tv show became an actual window into the near future, and the grand finale was Armageddon?

[@greenaum]

It has, and it will be. Don't spoil it for others, though, they might want it to come as a surprise. Use a [spoiler] tag.

[@fyfoh]

San Junipero has a happy ending? Uhhhhh.

[@Drabee]

is it not subjective?

[@Oldhandlewasabitcringe]

Getting to live in eternal paradise and never die?

[@SonRob01]

kissben that episode is the only one that makes me nearly cry but from happiness so yeah

[@dotcom2429]

kissben i agree, i found it somewhat sad. They are basically cookies living in a graveyard (the chips look like epitaphs in a crypt) while the original body/mind dies. and in the "cookies afterlife" the conclusion to their existence seems to be "The Quagmire" where people seem to try to break the unending monotony of life. The only way for me to conceive it to be truly happy, is if their love truly saves them from the dullness of eternal life.

[@Torthrodhel]

I count it as bittersweet. I think Nosedive's ending is more just straightforwardly joyful.

[@eltiosha]

BTW, I didn't really like San Junipero, and I think the ending is everything but a happy one!

[@milanalexich6149]

Shut up and dance bastards ending 😮

[@batsaubattler3200]

I hope one day millie bobby brown does an episode of black mirror

[@bazza5699]

series, not season!!!

[@AllieMoonSailor]

“Here’s an unpleasant idea” 🌫💡 🌫

[@gmonkman]

PZ Zone, Charlie?

[@gstrange42]

Not Charlie Brooker's 2017 Bum Wipe kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIHIp6Rmab2qd6s @charltonbrooker a fan made version

[@martinlee8423]

Karl Pilkington brought them here

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Martin Lee ?

[@revdj]

Gang - got the title wrong

[@julie-wb8cf]

No, black mirror warns us

[@danieljamesmead]

I didn't think San Junipero was that great. There, I said it.

[@greenaum]

Yeah but we know you're lying.

[@annother3350]

She couldnt wait more than 04:25 before pulling the gender stereotype card. It was nothing of the sort

[@cliffy3377]

i was like "what did that have to do with gender?"

[@greenaum]

It was more a Charlie Brooker stereotype.

[@TurtleMC1993]

Oooooo i bet theyre doing it

[@misterbonzoid]

He's married to Konnie Huq FFS. Why would he? TurtleMC1993

[@TheStarBlack]

I also thought both of these thoughts!

[@greenaum]

"Hated In The Nation" was just fucking daft and silly. Lots of things that weren't possible. Not because the technology isn't here yet, but because it would always be impossible. Also the reason you should remove metal when you have an MRI scan, is because metal makes the scan blurry around that area. It doesn't fly out through your skull at a million miles per hour. I've been MRIed and my various metal implants didn't even tingle. So that was bollocks. Also the bit about the bees being able to self-replicate from rubbish. Making microchips takes enormous huge factories that use megawatts of electricity and are thousands of times cleaner than an operating theatre. Robot bees can't do it in a square hive. Their little solar panel wings wouldn't produce enough power for them even if they were 100% efficient because the amount of energy in sunlight in a tiny area just isn't that much. I'm not just being a pedant, the bee thing destroyed the suspension of disbelief. The stuff in San Junipero might be possible from what we know about brain scans. Theoretically there's no reason it can't work. But robot bees, no, even in theory.

[@kidkat5462]

I might be mistaken but I think there is a reason why they call it science FICTION

[@cheeseontoast9418]

shes rather attractive

[@TheFjerstad]

J H have you ever read a comments section?

[@ggff3761]

Sue Perkins is awful

[@greenaum]

Yes, she is. Her mate isn't any better.

[@dudersmart]

Makes me laugh how deep people in tv go into how they did this and that and how supposedly important it is. They did a tv show. good on them, and its pretty good but does it matter? No is the answer every time.

[@a.s.5262]

You're just too smart, all of us peasants should bow before you and your massive intellect.

[@dudersmart]

Ordinary Username ? Errr I'm not smart and haven't ever claimed to be. And what are you going on about peasants for? All I'm saying is that the people that do things like make TV shows for a living shouldn't be put on a pedastool and revered so much because what they do is actually unimportant in the great scope of things. Think you missed the point a bit with ya trolling kidder.

[@TheDarkne55]

@dudersmart Well, you DID say "...does it matter? No is the answer every time". See, thats an abosulte statement, and its just not true. There have been many shows which have made a massive difference to people. Stuff like The Frost Report ? So don't be surprised if you get responses that comment on how YOU think you're right about that _opinion_. Just sayin'

[@John-mv1gk]

"I'm not smart" ~ dudersmart

[@dudersmart]

John Dowling it's my nickname ya fuckwit

[@Withnail1969]

I have watched almost every episode of Black Mirror now and I find it dull, predictable, and saying nothing new. You can find many sci fi films from the 70s that are far better than anything in this series. Westworld, for one. Oh and The Stepford Wives. And Logan's Run.

[@misterbonzoid]

Your loss

[@greenaum]

Black Mirror is much better than any of those films. Even better than "Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea!"

[@pinkbeatle2012]

I think twilight zone is slightly better

[@bunningtonhevy]

sue perkins is tiresome

[@cheekyboy5000]

Annabel is fine.

[@cheekyboy5000]

Annabel is fine.