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| The future's not bright, and it isn't orange! DARK MIRROR returns. Image: CHANNEL 4. |
Popular British writer/satirist Charlie Brooker thankfully has no plans to be the next Rod Serling, but his edgy, futuristic and cautionary tales of a flawed humanity, as told within his often bleak and uncompromising anthology series, and TWILIGHT ZONE-ish tribute, DARK MIRROR, certainly keeps up the late playwright's bold storytelling and strong characterisation traditions-alongside the odd sting in the tail- whilst resonating with intellectual bravura and often grotesque bite.
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This ambitious second run of three stories (all written by Brooker this time), after a previous acclaimed year, begins next Monday on Channel 4 and HD. The first tale, Be Right Back, sees a widow (star on the rise Hayley Attwell) trying to communicate with her dead husband via a new technology application- a reunion with surely horrific consequences. The third and final story is The Waldo Moment (about an animated bear on a children's TV show, voiced by a failed comedian (Daniel Rigby), that goes way beyond it's educational remit and turns out to be a subversive anarchist against the current political establishment). In the middle of the trio is White Bear- truly a modern-day ZONE-esque homage if ever there was one- about an almost amnesiac woman (Lenora Crichlow) waking up in a deserted city to discover its populace have entered a voyeuristic state of madness due to a mysterious transmitter signal. With its dark, obsessive technology core message, inside what will surely be a brutal and violent showcase, this looks set to be the most intriguing story yet, and one which also bears passing simlarities to that other fantasy master Ray Bradbury's classic novella, The Crowd.
Season One of BLACK MIRROR is now available on DVD: Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: Rory Kinnear, Lindsay Duncan: Film & TV
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