A  BLEAK  FUTURE  HAS  NEVER  LOOKED  SO  GOOD !!!

The first two series of Charlie Brooker’s anthology served up some of the sharpest sci-fi in years. This year with the introduction of Netflix the budget has been upped resulting in some of the best production values on TV. The half dozen episodes of Season 3 are  a cult TV offering with “unhappy endings” that’ll leave you  fully entertained. This classic series revels in seeing people, usually unaware of their frightful destinies, powerless to halt the realizations of their fates. But for us the audience it is cathartic to watch them crash and burn !!!

Social Media.  Online Gaming.   Porn.  Virutal Worlds.  Philosophical Consequences of High Tech Warfare. And Social Media again……   are the themes of the six episodes.  Don’t let the big words and  bigger ideas fool you or put you off— the episodes are superbly scripted, extremely easy to understand and make a great impression on the watcher…

These new alt-future fables come with the same pointed warning: Beware the cost of technologies that dehumanize the human experience while purporting to enhance it.

Think of the episodes as 6 mini-movies which are so immersive that it will take you a while to return to normal once you’ve seen one. This crop of dystopian tales serves to remind us how terminally dependent we are on the iPhones, apps, gadgets, doodads, and next-gen inventions that may sooner “kill” us than make for better living.

This is MUST SEE TV (Warning: you may never look at your gadgets in the same way again !!)

If you haven’t subscribed to NETFLIX do so right away. This series itself is worth the Rs.650 per month !!!

 

SAUMIL BHANSHALI