Black Mirrors

     I loved this show and hated it at the same time. Contradiction? Totally, but I honestly have no other way to explain this show to those who have both seen it and not seen it. In this British show, it shows the relationship that people have with technology but in a more over exaggerated manner.
     In the first episode, we learn of a princess being captured and being held hostage. The only way for her to go free is if the Prime Minister engages in a sexual act with a pig on live national television. He does. And if that wasn't gross enough, he does it even after the princess has been released unharmed but no one knew she was because everyone was glued to the TV to watch him.
     In the second episode, we see of a man trapped in this seemingly future world. They bike to earn points that are then used as currency to buy things like food and gifts for others, along with using points to skip ads that show up on their screens. 
     The third episode is essentially the book Feed. In this episode, people have microchips behind their ear and through that they have access to all of their memories. They have the ability to replay their memories over and over and essentially live through them. 
     The thing that I liked about this show was that it is extremely well done. I feel as each episode was masterfully pieced together and filmed phenomenally well. Now, onto the things that I hated. Believe me, I didn't hate anything about the actual quality of the show. I think I hated more how it made me feel. I would end each episode with a feeling of anger. I don't know if the lack of conclusion on the episodes which left me wanting to know more. I think that because I didn't have a sense of what happened next, I was left to imagine what I thought and I honestly didn't like what I was thinking. Watching these episodes made me unsettled because unfortunately, I think this is the way that we are going with technology. 50 years ago no one would have believed that we would essentially have handheld computers that let us access anything and everything at our fingertips or have self-driving cars that parallel park for you, but yet we do. As much as we would like to believe that we would never live in a world where we would have a chip implanted in us to access information that is the way that we are moving. I think it is scary to think that in our lifetime, all of these scenarios are totally possible.