I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.
Charlie BrookerWhat happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.
Charlie BrookerI would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of nuclear war. I was born in 1971, and in the '80s I came to understand that I was inevitably going to be frazzled to death in the nuclear apocalypse.
Charlie BrookerPeople gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.
Charlie Brooker