Great review. I feel like Todd has been one of the few reviewers to truly get it; most others have focused on the surface satirical elements and ignored the deeper themes Brooker is pushing here. It's easy to dismiss the show as having nothing more to say than "technology is bad, you idiots!", but that does a real…

I just realized that next year is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. That means I get to sit through 12 months of bad history, lazy attempts at politicizing, general misunderstandings and a whole heaping of misplaced determinism until then. Yay.

A while ago I identified why I find some shows so compelling, and I really think it is their capacity for empathy. My favourite shows (The Office UK, The Wire, Party Down, The Thick of It, Deadwood, etc.) can all be quite scathing towards society or institutions, but at the same time treat individuals with a great…

"Dogs"!

Best sight gag: "People who liked [Apples] also liked [Bananas]."

Yeah, I definitely got the impression it was just a control mechanism. Whether or not that was the intent doesn't really matter; it just makes a lot of sense.

"I was never really sold on the show because, while it has some very intriguing SF speculations and pretty nifty effects, too much of its underlying meaning seems to be just "Facebook is bad for you."

It's a completely insane and unimaginable position to be in. I can see almost any action in response making sense.

"PM gonna get pig aids LOL" is pretty much the perfect summary of Twitter.

Let's play spot the lucky teams!

Uhh… she was introduced at the start.

Just a reminder to everyone to watch Black Mirror. It's amazing.

Is a feinting couch only pretending to be a couch?

Bryzgalov to Edmonton. Awesome.

It's really baffling that Disqus simply doesn't have an option to load a certain number of comments each time. It would solve so many issues.

It always impresses me at the ludicrous amounts of history covered in intro history courses.

Wait until it's through.

This show has the best premise-breaking scene of all time, I think. Whoever came up with the idea that that was how to tell the viewer "this is a show where dead people come back to life" deserves some kind of medal.

Les Revenants is like the first thing for which I have legit hipster cred. I caught some of the original run on Canal+, so I intend to smugly break that out as often as possible.

Todd's been watching it, so I imagine he'll draw the reviews if they go ahead.