The black mirror borrowed almost a major feature of the twilight area

in 2013 interview with gaming radar Discussion of the second season of “Black Mirror”, creator Charlie Brocker revealed how it borrowed almost the framework of the frame of the sixties of the sixties of the last century “The Twilight Zone”. Just as Rod Serling Rod Serling would have spoken directly to the camera at the beginning of each episode, Brooker did the same for each episode of “Black Mirror” Season 1.

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The main argument for this was that it would help reduce many network fears. Broker explained that studios are often hesitant in making selections in part because there are no repeated personalities for the audience to get around, and there will be any other type of TV series. The closest that the “black mirror” can do – At least until I started playing with sequences in the seventh season -It was to throw a repeated narrator character.

“Rod Serling was the unified character, in some way, Brucker said about the“ Al Shafak Zone ”. I did the same trick with their chain of horsesWith similar enjoyable results. However, in the end, Broker did not feel it would be appropriate. “If I was doing it, it will be strange!” He argued. “Then if we invented a character, why are they there?” Brucker is clearly respected by “The Twilight Zone”, but this was one element that was not interested in placing it in its rotation.

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One of the major reasons for Brucker gave up on the idea is that he found another way to keep the network comfortably: he cut the number of episode. “Initially, we thought that we would take eight episodes every season,” he explained. “Then it became clear that it was easier to do three – we had no budget and time to do eight, and as soon as he decreased to three episodes, I felt less necessary to get this.” The show will eventually expand to the seasons of six episodes, but this was only after it was purchased by Netflix and gave him an enormous budget boost. Brocker made more:

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“What I felt is really so, when you think about the” twilight area “that you do not actually think about in Rod Serling … with” unimaginable tales “that you may think of Rield Dal, but this is not the quality you remember. You say things,” go a little “Al -Shafa area ” ‘ Because the show itself has become the character that I set for every week. Even if you don’t know what to get, you know that the matter will have a certain tone … It was the intention that we hope that it will become something when people see some of the strange technology story that they will go to, “Oh, that is a little”Black mirror!” ”

Certainly, this is exactly what Charlie Brocker has achieved for the first few seasons of the series. By the time when Channel 4 concluded, conclusion, With 2014 Special Christmas “White Christmas”, “, Viewers were trained to read themselves before starting a new episode. They knew that they could expect a wonderful speculation hypothesis, a dark development, and an exciting end. These were the real connection cards for the offer. When it comes to making a strong and permanent impression on pop culture, “Black Mirror” did not need the narrator to pull it.

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