Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror offers different tales of modern horror, told through the lens of technologies or societies gone wrong.
Balatro is once again having a moment. The game snapped up the best debut game award at this year’s BAFTAs. (With Ben Starr reprising his role as Jimbo to accept the award to maintain its creator’s strict policy of anonymity.) Then the game made a brief but fun appearance in the new Black Mirror season in the Hotel Reverie episode. As you can imagine, its creator, localthunk, was quite chuffed at the shout-out.
In the latest season of Black Mirror the show pointedly goes after streaming services for their growth at all costs approach to entertainment with the creation of the Netflix parody, Streamberry. Now Netflix, which produces Black Mirror, has created a Streamberry website full of weird riffs on Black Mirror episodes.
If its anything like the Black Mirror version of Streamberry I wouldn’t suggest uploading an picture of your face until you check those Terms of Service.
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The interactive TV format could give Netflix a needed advantage in a crowded streaming market
The opening of the show’s third season is broad satire, but it makes some accurate points.
