Saw the series. I do it while working on less mentally consuming things.
Either way - it is excellent - bigger budget than before and better writing.
It has of course the usual predictive programming with plenty of propaganda embedded, but it tells you well where the elite is going with the world.
As usual the makers are highly versed and initiated:
Quote:Quote:
1"Nosedive"Joe WrightStory by : Charlie Brooker
Teleplay by : Rashida Jones & Mike Schur21 October 2016
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve, James Norton and Cherry Jones
92"Playtest"Dan TrachtenbergCharlie Brooker21 October 2016
Starring: Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Wunmi Mosaku and Ken Yamamura
103"Shut Up and Dance"James WatkinsCharlie Brooker & William Bridges21 October 2016
Starring: Alex Lawther & Jerome Flynn
114"San Junipero"Owen HarrisCharlie Brooker21 October 2016
Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw & Mackenzie Davis
125"Men Against Fire"Jakob VerbruggenCharlie Brooker21 October 2016
Starring: Malachi Kirby, Michael Kelly, Madeline Brewer & Sarah Snook
136"Hated in the Nation"James HawesCharlie Brooker21 October 2016
The entire series has the conventional talking points of diversity, gay marriage, gay weddings and social media top-down control embedded in it, but the main points of each show are interesting and very telling:
Spoilers:
1) Social media control where everyone can rate anyone and the ones with the highest social media scores win the game getting perks, prices and better jobs. This is already being implemented in China! The people get negative scores for being non-PC or even associating with non-PC people online or real life!
2) There are many memes about euthanasia, about brutally applied eugenics. Euthanasia should go hand in hand with a transcendence to a perfect virtual reality. That is one big theme of the elite supposedly, but I seriously doubt this will pan out. Super-intelligent family inbreeding did not work for them as they attempted to in the 19th century - the big guys are sometimes wrong on certain things. Of course maybe they will be able to convince a few blokes to 'upload' themselves online and then let themselves be killed. But if you are dumb enough to fall for it, then you deserve to be killed.
3) There is one example of advanced implant-brain conditioning where soldiers in wars will see the target - even if harmless women and children - as terrible screeching monsters and can pull the trigger easily. Dehumanizing the enemy not only via past propaganda, but via life-gaming style alteration of reality.
4) You also get a glimpse into modern warfare technology and one big reason why I never ever fear a global caliphate. You see in one episode what self-reproducing tiny military-grade bots can do against a WWII-style military - essentially you can have billions of them produced and swarm out against even one billion soldiers. That technology is not even far off - if at all far away.
Also there ubiguitous nods to the full surveillance state that we live in. Among those one of the reasons why Zuckerberg-sugarmountain blocks his notebook mics and camera (like I do - well not the mic, but at least the camera).
Either way - a great show that the big boys are showing us - all clad in entertainment that will just familiarize us with the future - as they are planning something that is a mixture of all that is shown.