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I really like Black Mirror. I watched a bunch of TV shows, started and left midway through others, but I always go back to Black Mirror. Like the creator said, it's sci-fi techno dystopia. And he is working on the 7th season. One of the episodes will be a follow up to USS Callister. Awesome!
Are you at all familiar with Charlie Brooker's (creator of Black Mirror) comedy work? Black Mirror is great, but I honestly think he's a better comedy writer.
He's behind all the recent great Philomena Cunk shows such as Cunk On Britian and Cunk On Earth. (Soon Cunk's Quest for Meaning)
Cunk herself started as a bit character, a "man on the street" interview on Brooker's old comedy news show his Weekly Wipe/Newswipe. I kind of miss her male compatriot, Barry Shitpeas, but I suspect his last name made it harder to build a show around him.
The dialogue of Daniel Kaluuya at the end of Fifteen Million Merits, where he's speaking from his fancy new apartment to his new video platform, is basically Daniel doing an impression of Charlie Brooker on Newswipe. It completely changes the final scene if you're familiar with Brooker's own comedy, it's a nice piece of self-critique.
Also, he put John Hannah (who I still also love in The Mummy) in my good books with his send-up of tough police procedural shows with A Touch of Cloth the name of which is a reference to not being able to hold in your shit, and its crowning and touching the cloth of your underwear. Lot's of stupid cloth-related puns for funs.