Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, began his career as an edgy British satirist with a gift for skewering mainstream TV and a passionate love for video games. In 2000, he was hired to write comedy sketches for a new company, and there he met a levelheaded producer named Annabel Jones. “I took the piss out of him and he probably took the piss out of me,” Jones later recalled. “There was a sort of equal disdain and disrespect for each other that meant that we probably could work together.”
And so they have. Black Mirror, their best-known creation, premiered on the BBC’s Channel 4 in December 2011, then moved to Netflix in October 2016, where it is now in its seventh season. The series includes 33 stand-alone episodes, each spinning a different tale with a different director and cast, held together by the pinball-machine imagination of Brooker, who wrote or co-wrote all but one screenplay.
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