If you like The Twilight Zone you’ll enjoy Black Mirror. The Sixth Season just started streaming on Netflix with the first episode, “Joan is Awful.” Joan, a CFO at a large corporation, finds her life depicted on a streaming service called Streamberry (with graphics that look a lot like Netflix) in TV program called “Joan is Awful” starring Selma Hayek as Joan. Joan’s life takes some terrible turns and soon Joan meets with her lawyer to try to stop Streamberry from showing her life on TV for the world to watch.
Yes, this is weird but things start to get a lot weirder when Selma Hayek shows up at Joan’s door. I’ll be watching the other four episodes available now on Netflix. GRADE: A
I’ll have to watch this. I’ve watched about half the Black Mirror episodes over the years and enjoyed a lot of them.
That’s the only one I’ve watched too.
Patti, I was a huge fan of THE TWILIGHT ZONE when I was a kid. But, my parents tried to find ways to distract me from watching it! They thought it was too scary!
Since I love Salma Hayek, there is no chance I would NOT watch it. I’ve found the series uneven at times, and Jackie doesn’t love it, but even she said to watch this.
Jeff, since Charlie Booker writes all the BLACK MIRROR episodes, unevenness can creep in. I prefer the variety of writers in series like THE TWILIGHT ZONE and NIGHT GALLERY.
Wildly uneven is the usual verdict…rather as with TZ (at least the original and the first, CBS revival…the UPN revival was remarkably bad). I’ve seen some and enjoyed some, while enjoying DEAD SET (Brooker’s previous horror/borderline sf series) and his various news/culture satire series.
Todd, I’ll have to check out DEAD SET.