Back when I first began my expedition into Black Mirror, Season 3 was my launch point. The themes centering around technology and how it assists us in propagating our sinful nature certainly intrigued me, but I was equally impressed with…

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Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror’s writer and executive producer, knows how important it is to grab an audience’s attention from the start. We saw this when we first tackled the show in Season 4 with USS Callister. We’ll see it again…

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Our journey into the fourth season of Black Mirror has one last stop to make – the anthology-within-an-anthology episode, Black Museum. Directed by Colm McCarthy, Black Museum tells a story about a museum of the digital macabre, its curator, and…

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If we’re not talking about surviving the zombie apocalypse, chances are we will default to discussing and debating the robot apocalypse. With films such as The Terminator series, I, Robot, and the popular TV show Battlestar Galactica, the pinnacle fight…

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Dating is a curious thing; two people agree to meet at a specific place and point in time to find out if they’re not only compatible as friends, but compatible in a romantic or even sexual manner. While it has…

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Our memories are incredibly important to us. Memories help us to live, and are with us from before we’re even born to the day we die. They remind us of things that once were and gives us good indication of…

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In the year 1150, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux wrote, “Hell is full of good intentions or wishes.” Today, we know that idiom as its more common adage: “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” That phrase is all…

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I was around 14 when a PC video game called The Sims was released. The game, which was an outright sensation in the early 2000s, appealed to both hardcore gamers and folks who casually played video games. It’s safe to…

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