"Black Mirror" Creator Charlie Brooker on Drones, Rabbit Holes, and Broligarchy

The seventh season of Black Mirror included an episode centered on a disturbing video game called Thronglets. In an innovative twist for fans of the series, they can now play it by themselves directly from their mobile devices. Netflix released six new chapters created by Charlie Brooker earlier this month. However, it is in the fourth, Plaything, where we follow a video game journalist (played by Lewis Gribben and Peter Capaldi) who develops a …

"Black Mirror" Creator Charlie Brooker on Drones, Rabbit Holes, and Broligarchy

Photo of Charlie Brooker courtesy of Netflix. Black Mirror creator and professional pessimist Charlie Brooker has turned our collective anxieties into prestige television, conjuring dystopian futures that always feel just a few doom-scrolls away. Through his hit Netflix show, which released its seventh season earlier this month, the former journalist and cartoonist has skewered everything from surveillance states to social media apps—A Twilight …