HBO Series :Black Mirror (First Season)

Three years after the mini-series Dead Set that skilfully mixed zombies and reality shows, Charlie Brooker is back. His new baby is called Black Mirror and consists of three episodes. Although it may seem a little light on paper, the English journalist says more things in 3 hours of television than some writers in several seasons. Independent of each other, however, the three episodes have the merit of tackling commonly a theme that concerns us all: the ever-growing impact of new technologies in our daily lives. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, X-Factor, Microsoft Points .. Through three absolutely brilliant scenarios of inventiveness, the former polytechnician has fun with the viewer: at a time when the sensational is raging, are there still limits that journalists and viewers are not ready to cross ? Would you be ready to watch the worst of infamy if a huge celebrity was about to humiliate himself live on TV? While the trash reigns supreme over the media, do we still have a semblance of morality, or are we willing to cash everything under the pretext of “right to information”?

Charlie Brooker is also interested in dematerialization in the world of video games, as well as the weight of advertising in our existence. And if all our life was only used to pay Xbox Live points? Imagine for a few seconds an existence in which the least act, even the most banal, would be immediately billed and deducted from our total points. Abrutis that we would be pedaling on bikes from morning to night, we would watch screens all day, and we would be forbidden to look away during the break advertising, under penalty of pecuniary penalty … Is it so unrealistic? that ? What about finally thinking of this modern mania that pushes people to photograph and film everything to make memories? In our environment, how many do we know of people who spend their time trying to relive the past rather than enjoying the present? In his third and final episode, Black Mirror makes us think about the weight of images and the right to be forgotten, at a time when surveillance cameras are multiplying visibly … Be forewarned, Black Mirror is a punishing series, shocking in appearance, but oh so relevant and far-sighted through the themes it addresses. In a futuristic style visually very licked, this series of anticipation not so far-fetched that it has the merit of making us think, and if we come out of his viewing a little groggy, we also have the pleasant impression of having attended the coronation of the new King of British TV.