People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

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

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

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.

While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.