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more likely what edit stream he subscribed to and what particular flavor of post-reality it was pumping into his mind.

But at least they haven’t edited you into a new body where all your limbs are dicks, and you’re constantly falling on your own balls. Or you’ve got 50 arseholes over your mouth that keep shitting onto your own lips. Annabel Jones: Emmy-award-winning writing, right there.

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 backgr

Charlie Brooker: I typed that speech out in a real rush, to mirror Bing’s delivery. The speech doesn’t entirely make sense. Occasionally people have transcribed it or quoted it, and they often get things wrong. There’s also a few lines in it that are a bit more ‘written’ than they should be. He says something like, “You’re sitting there slowly knit

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I can’t help but remember the 1998 film The Truman Show. It’s a dark comedy about an orphan, Truman Burbank, unwittingly raised by a corporation in a simulated reality broadcast as a TV show around the world. Everyone is aware of the ruse except Truman, played by Jim Carrey.

read the script, and thought, “Come on Kenny, just turn yourself in – don’t rob a bank or kill someone, it’s not that big of a deal!” And then I thought, “Oh God!” and felt very unnerved. How brilliant that they’d made me sympathise with a paedophile for so long. And the complexity of that, because he’s so young…

‘David stares into the fire wondering whether to vote Labour or Conservative’, as the audience have no way of inferring that.

Shut Up and Dance marked the Black Mirror co-writing debut of William Bridges, a relative newcomer to TV. William Bridges (co-writer): I credit Charlie and Annabel for very much giving me my break in the industry. I hadn’t met them before, and had virtually no credits to my name, but I’d written a spec script for a TV show that had just been sold t