Thank you! Also, you're entirely right, I was skim reading and saw the contents rather than the source.

It was brave to also allude to the abuse prisoners go through. Will was going to get Grant out of holding but that would mean solitary; it seemed like a choice between prison rape and going insane alone. I still think it would have made more sense for him to turn the gun on himself, and it doesn't make any sense for…

… If this is true, put on a spoiler warning please!

Maybe that's the problem? People don't like Waldo and don't seem to seem him as a very good character, and maybe that's where Brooker doesn't make his argument. Waldo's an extreme caricature for people who have certain ideas about the media, and then he takes it to the next level through the episode. He assumes people…

The estimates of the number of casualties were taken at various points during the conflict. ORB London study 2007 was 1.2 million, for example, with Lancet citing half that, and various other figures. "Around a million deaths" then, there you go. "Result of conflict" was a civil war, so the numbers are still adding up.

Just one example: The illegal invasion of Iraq killed over a 1.5 million people and it happened on our screens. The USA has invaded at least 5 countries over the past decade.

You've got a lot of faith in society and that's alright, but I think the opinion you shared is optimistic to the point of not really caring. It's as if you're saying that there aren't really problems, that it will self-correct, whereas with the control of the media being as it is, how it is supposed to without great…

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honestly, it's good.

And his point about using it on a global scale isn't trite. You can control people through media, if you control the media. In my opinion, the point made through this episode, though it is an extreme example (satire, after all) is about how to grab people's attention and how to use that to undermine real conversation,…

It's about populist politics, about how to use advertising and shock tactics to appeal to the lowest common denominator. And how audiences buy into comedy, how much power comedians can have if they are used on the political stage. In America, look at how much power The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have. They…

Sorry, but I humbly submit that you didn't quite understand this episode. He's not really supposed to be funny. We're not supposed to think the guy's a hero. Brooker is making a much bigger point about politics in the technological age.

The original one by Jo Brand is brilliant. Will watch this one too, good stuff.

Also where's the bit in the trailer where the mustache is denigrated?

Ah, Molly being the one that mattered most!

I think so too but in my informal questioning I found that many people don't like this episode as much as, for example, the last one in this first series. I guess the last one is more interesting for people who care about relationships, but this one I thought was a devastating indictment on the way many of us choose…

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My most favourite thing on television for a long time.

It felt a bit underwritten, really. They seem to have thrown them onto the set of some other sitcom (pretty much every other sitcom has that room but not theirs), given Bryan some basic guidance, given Jane none at all, and then said "improvise". Which is a shame because more Lois is only good and Malcolm in the…

bird!holmes meets sociopathicmalemodel!holmes… they get distracted and have a Truman Show moment. Meanwhile, Watson and Watson run away together? They would be almost irritatingly adorable.

obnoxious? I'm not so sure about that. It's not as fun or interesting a city as it claims to be, but where on earth is? It has some beautiful architecture… though, hey, how about Holmes and Watson in Venice? THAT'S a city to film.