Black Mirror: Joan Is Awful (2023)
Season 6, Episode 1
10/10
Absolutely brilliant . . .
27 June 2023
Where to even start? No spoilers here, which makes it a bit difficult to describe without some key details. Imagine for a moment, you're being sampled for (an involuntary) realtime drama depiction of your existence, which then gets put onto Netflix, reconstructed in near realtime, as CGI content, being streamed by everyone . . . Imagine being Joan, in "Joan is Awful", only maybe the new version is you, "(fill in the blank) is Awful".

But that's just barely scratching the surface of this quirky but very different sort of psych-drama with a twist, woven into a comedy, with character studies which go way beyond anything "Silicon Valley" could have dreamed up.

It has so many little hooks and hidden foibles lurking about in this twisted look into a possible not too distant future . . . Complete with quantum computers, alternate reality in a sort of uber metaverse, corporate media tech intrigues and their dubious characters . . .

OK, that's enough . . . As suggested earlier, trying to pry open this Pandora's box a bit further steps into questionable spoiler hinting territory, so can't go there, but really, the time invested for this very original concept piece will not be disappointing.
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