Wow! Your take is WAY more than mine. Yes. It is our Twylight Zone, which was always spotty. And TZ was usually best as a spoof, not as IMPORTANT. The universal plastic surgery episode was an exception. The "Nose Dive" premier was a big riff on Facebook, Twitter, et al, ubiquity, extended to its rule of the world of commerce with a single ruler become law (a dubious premise, at best). Still, it worked, but was too long.<div><br></div><div>David Morris<br><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Monday, October 24, 2016, Mark Thibodeau <<a href="mailto:jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com">jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You have got to be fucking kidding me.<br>
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This series has included some of the most vital, successful, and I<br>
would (and will) argue IMPORTANT works of fiction produced so far in<br>
the 21st century. They will be milestones and touchstones by which<br>
future generations will mark, measure and compare all future works of<br>
socially aware speculative fiction, not unlike the way Twilight Zone<br>
informed so much that succeeded it.<br>
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I mean, there's a reason why the contemporary Chinese intelligentsia<br>
have taken to it like no other Western product before<br>
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Anybody else here have an opinion on Brooker's incredible series? And<br>
has anybody here other than myself seen his series Nathan Barley,<br>
which was equally groundbreaking? Unlike Black Mirror, which is<br>
heralded, Nathan Barley was ignored. I think mostly because it was a<br>
slashing expose of the kind of people who review such things for a<br>
living, but what do I know? I was only one of them at the time...<br>
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yer old pal Jerky<br>
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:32 PM, David Morris <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'fqmorris@gmail.com')">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> No Black Mirror episodes wear well, except maybe the pig-fuck one. All are<br>
> essentially morality scolds masquerading as insight. But what really kills<br>
> them for me is that they are all half-hour stories stretched to a full hour,<br>
> making them extremely predictable and very boring.<br>
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> David Morris, constantly fighting fast forward urge.<br>
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