I was first presented this show by a British friend... which i suppose is suitable seeing as how it has almost entirely British writers. This show might be the best thing ever made into a TV show and have a run for the best thing behind "Game of Thrones" and "Breaking Bad."

I don't expect you to know anything about this show because i knew nothing upon watching the first episode of the show either. I only watched it because i was bored. However, what came after was the same thing that made me like Korean thriller movies. It is haunting.

We all use technology: Sometimes i think we can all agree that we use it too much. It becomes every part of our life. There is a good chance that you are reading these words on a mobile device that you could definitely wait just a little while in order to get it done once you get home....

This is what Black Mirror is about. The entire program is written by different people each time but the prevailing theme seems to be for us to take notice about how we allow technology to completely control our lives.

Think about it:

Do you have kids? Are they not currently using your phone to play a game to keep them occupied?

Do you have crypto? Are you not looking at it all the time to check if it has changed ever-so-slightly?

Are you a human (in today's time) and if you have a slight lull in activity be it a taxi, a queue (dumb word) or any other point in time that you have to wait just for a little while .... are you not looking at Facebook? Just to pass the time?

Do you not use some method of smartphone to record every interesting thing you see? or thing you need to remember?

Chances are.... you are doing these things..... and that is where Black Mirror shows you a horrible glimpse into the future. Technology (or techmology as Ali-G calls it) is becoming increasingly all-encompassing.... and i like that they are able to at least look into the future a bit and scare us about how dependent we are becoming on it.

There is an episode of this series (it might actually be season 1 episode 2) that shows that all people (at least in the snippet of the "world" that we are allowed to see) are made to ride stationary bikes in order to power something for the sake of getting "mertis." They then are allowed to do certain things with these merits including to TURN OFF ADVERTISEMENTS that are very intrusive into their lives by LCD screens that are everywhere they go.

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Does any of this sound familiar because it is exactly what our lives are becoming?

This episode is called "15 million merits" by the way and i strongly encourage you to find it.

It is episode 2 of season one of the series. You should skip episode one as it nearly made me not want to watch any of the others. I was unaware that the episodes would not be connected in any sort of flowing fashion.

This is a poorly written article because I had to leave my house. I'm sorry. The next one will be better... But please, watch Black Mirror, it is an exceptional series.