In this frivolous new world, everything must be pleasing and inoffensive. Everything and everybody gets marketed like an exciting new product—even old, creepy politicians, or ancient film actors, or 80-year-old rock stars.

They all get repackaged and rebranded—thank the digital gods for those apps that make old stuff look new! Everything is now easy

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Owen Harris: Bizarrely, in the end, it was the 80s setting that excited me. If you look back to a lot of films from that decade – in particular those films written or directed by John Hughes – the mood was far more optimistic, almost to the point where you could classify it as a genre. The genre of eternal optimism! Black Mirror comes from a

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