I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.

I kept saying I want to do an episode that's set in the past, how do we do a period episode of Black Mirror? And simultaneously there was another idea we were thinking about and the two things sort of gelled and became San Junipero.

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.

Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.