Mark Twain said, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Well these days truth feels exactly like one kind of fiction. That would be totally fine if we were talking about a happy fiction. We’d be thrilled to live in the kind of story where mankind lives in a utopia of peace and kindness. But when soulless ghouls use artificial intelligence so you can “speak” to the dead, it instead feels like we’re living inside of a Black Mirror episode. How can the dystopian series continue to stay fresh when reality is this bleak? We’re going to find out. Netflix has renewed the show for an eighth season.
Creator Charlie Brooker told Netflix’s Tudum his show is coming back for more. He said it’s returning for season eight and that “hopefully it’ll be more Black Mirror than ever.” He also added, “Luckily [the show] does have a future, so I can confirm that Black Mirror will return, just in time for reality to catch up with it. So, that’s exciting. That chunk of my brain has already been activated and is whirring away.”
More Black Mirror than ever? Forget what that might mean. We’re not even sure how can it can stay ahead of a society that keeps creating the Torment Nexus no matter how many times Brooker’s anthology series shows why that’s a bad idea? What could season eight possibly show us that’s worse than what’s already happening with tech and civilization?
We’re afraid to ask. Not because Black Mirror is coming back. We’re very happy about that, especially after season seven. No, we’re afraid because the most terrifying, upsetting episodes might end up being treating as manuals for the worst people on the planet.
Just because truth might be stranger than fiction doesn’t mean we want all fiction to become real. At least not the kind of fiction that makes Black Mirror so good.
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