Wednesday January 18th (aka Last Day Of Half Of 90)

ecchi · 2017-01-18, 03:42 PM

Followed your link to the Black Mirror ad on Netflix, somewhat surprised to see it ignored the one thing it was sold on when originally shown in Britain. The fact that it was created and (mostly) written by Charlie Brooker. He is a big seller over here. He is a satirist and journalist who tends to go with the policy "Life is shit, then you die". His non-drama TV shows tend to be an hour of him telling the audience why everything is rubbish. People love him over here. But then that is Britain, the country where someone wrote a book called "Crap Towns", which listed the worst towns in Britain - then the author had to write a second book "More Crap Towns", because so many people complained to the publishers that their home town was not in the first book!

I've only seen a few episodes of Black Mirror, but from those I did see, I'll say: JR, since you liked the original (British) version of Shameless I think you will like Black Mirror.

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2017-01-18, 03:42 PM	#7
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Followed your link to the Black Mirror ad on Netflix, somewhat surprised to see it ignored the one thing it was sold on when originally shown in Britain. The fact that it was created and (mostly) written by Charlie Brooker. He is a big seller over here. He is a satirist and journalist who tends to go with the policy "Life is shit, then you die". His non-drama TV shows tend to be an hour of him telling the audience why everything is rubbish. People love him over here. But then that is Britain, the country where someone wrote a book called "Crap Towns", which listed the worst towns in Britain - then the author had to write a second book "More Crap Towns", because so many people complained to the publishers that their home town was not in the first book! I've only seen a few episodes of Black Mirror, but from those I did see, I'll say: JR, since you liked the original (British) version of Shameless I think you will like Black Mirror.