I 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.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.

"Be Right Back," in which Hayley Atwell brings Domhnall Gleeson back from the dead using his social-media profile, sprang out of an unrelated conversation. Other stories you thrash away at for weeks and weeks.

Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.

My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.