Black Mirror. The UK people are probably far more familiar with this show.
I have only seen the first three episodes. There are two seasons/series so far, three episodes each (much like Sherlock, another fave). It's an anthology show, so none of them really connect to each other. They are mostly sci-fi set in alternate or near future reality. It's... let someone else explain:
...just then, an IM window popped up: an editor asking which episode of Black Mirror was my favorite. I hit pause, grateful for the interruption. It was only then that I realized I had been crying.
Black Mirror gets you like that: First you're giggling, then you're sobbing. It's the rare show that unsettles just as much as it entertains. It rejects easy descriptors, but a first step might be calling it a Twilight Zone for the Information Age; the episodes are all stand-alone, but themes and ideas wriggle between them like the Stuxnet virus. There are ransom demands that hinge on humiliation instead of money, brain implants that turn memories into media files. The world of Black Mirror is very much our own, just fast-forwarded: The phones are thinner, the interfaces smoother, the temptations greater. Instead of cheerleading the glorious future, the show picks at the accumulating scabs we'd rather ignore: That the same gadgets that keep us from ever feeling alone also guarantee we never have to leave the house. That "favorite" has become a verb, and a meaningless one at that. That we now like things without liking them, know people without meeting them. That we give away every part of ourselves and call it sharing.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...e-black-mirror
If you do decide to watch them, don't read spoilers. They want to mess with your head.
So far: Highly Recommended.
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