I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

Am I living in a simulation?

You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode.

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

In summary, our world is doomed.