The first few seasons sorta did this in some capacity. I remember the intensely British early episodes mostly all included a social critique of some kind. A lot of the times that critique was sorta liberal in nature, but at least it was present. Early Black Mirror was almost like a Twilight Zone for gen z and millennials.

But wow did it have a sharp decline, especially after Netflix got it. Season five and Bandersnatch were especially terrible. I'm not even sure if the show has been renewed. If it ends up getting cancelled, I would hazard a guess that maybe it wasn't covid but those last two releases that did it in.

Imagine if Black Mirror retained the quality of episodes like Fifteen Million Merits all the way through its run. In this thread let's come up with actually good Black Mirror episode concepts. I always get a kick out of people doing the whole "wot if ur mum ran on batteries" bit.

  • meme_monster [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Easily disproved by the multiple universe theory. If I die in a random accident in this universe I'm still dead even if my counterpart in other universes lives on. If you dub off a copy of the living, breathing me then that copy is just an impostor.

      • meme_monster [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        The point is that an exact copy of me from another universe is not me, ergo an exact copy of me in this universe still isn't me.

          • meme_monster [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            If the self is just emergent behavior does that just make us all p-zombies then? If I kill my copy is it murder? If my copy kills me should society be indifferent? Can my family even get upset over it?