Charlie Brooker doesn’t think AI is taking his job any time soon because it only produces trash

Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”::Charlie Brooker doesn’t think AI is taking his job any time soon because it only produces trash

  • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    1 year ago

    Eh, I never bought this. The show has always been wildly uneven. The first season was very strong with two great episodes but the first episode is not great. The second season is pretty bad overall with the exception of Be Right Back. White Christmas was a good one off. The first Netflix season had some really strong showings with Nosedive, Shut Up And Dance and my personal favorite of the whole series San Junipero. I even thought season 4 was pretty decent overall. Also, banderanatch was actually pretty cool, especially if you really dug into all the paths.

    The last 2 seasons, 5 & 6 were pretty bad overall with only one good episode each and some particularly bad ones. But honestly Charlie is probably just running out of ideas and I can’t really blame him at this point. I suspect he’s just trying different things. Sometimes big swings work and sometimes you just get Mazey Day.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I think he’s trying to steal the lightning from the episodes that resonated well with the audiences to make new episodes and it’s just not hitting quite as hard.

      The old formula was amazing stories meets Twilight zone meets tales from the crypt we’re 8 out of 10 times the protagonist gets right fucked for just trying to be a good person.

      It feels to me like the take away from san junipero was that people like happy endings so they’re trying to apply it to everything

      The reason you got Maisy day is because he got access to Miley Cyrus and had to write something that she would be happy with.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      I really, really could not get behind the premise that the PM of the UK would fuck a pig to save a princess.

      In the real world, it would have been “we do not make deals with terrorists” and that would be that, ratings be damned. Like holy shit, did he start with a completely unrealistic premise.

      • dimeslime@lemmy.caEnglish
        73·
        1 year ago

        Edit: complete fabrication be here.

        The “do horrible thing to save someone” story, yeah, maybe.

        But the pig thing had been going around for years about the then/former prime minister. Some kind of hazing at eton or wherever those posh folks go. The episode was just a reference to that.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Nah. Even season 3 there’s a distinct lack of “okay this is supremely fucked up” that you got in series 1 and 2. There’s some fantastic episodes in the first couple netflix seasons, but they dialed back the dread factor in favor of exploring new sci fi concepts. Not complaining, but the og channel 4 episodes are way darker.

    • Cheesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It comes down to what you like about the show. Do you like the darker sides of technology that raises questions? Seasons 1 and 2 are great. Do you like sci-fi happy endings with a better production value? The Netflix seasons are better.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      my personal favorite of the whole series San Junipero.

      Me too. It’s literally the only episode I rewatched. 🙌