Did you spend your New Year’s holiday weekend binge watching the entire new season of Netflix’s disturbingly prescient, dystopian sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror? If so, you probably had a pretty unsettling weekend. Or you may have spent the whole first episode, “USS Callister”, wondering — like this person did — if Jesse Plemons was was Matt Damon in prosthetics. Or perhaps you might have been wondering, what are they going to do for season five? Luckily, Twitter already has some plot suggestions.
Some Twitter users pitched ideas that had sort of already been realized by Her, The Truman Show, and a ’90s Disney movie (Directed by LeVar Burton! Starring Katey Sagal!) that we need in our lives immediately:
https://twitter.com/calmad9/status/938775421386182658
https://twitter.com/dino_kiddo/status/947390397722103808
https://twitter.com/jobforaheffa/status/948408222599102464
Others pitched episodes we could really see show runner Charlie Brooker giving the green light to:
Black Mirror idea: Future of Tinder for people who want kids. You give the app your DNA, then swipe left or right on realistic generated photos of the kids it knows you would make with the other users. Freaky!
— Wyatt Tall (@comfortfood) December 30, 2017
black mirror writers after a 90 minute pitch: but………it’s a simulation
— levi (@lvwrfl) January 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/rrahiho/status/948385493959495680
Terrifying #BlackMirror episode idea: a self-driving car that doesn’t let you change the satellite radio from the Country music channel.
— Justin Staggs Ⓥ (@Staggfilms) December 30, 2017
Black Mirror: What if Instagram had a knife?
— Jackson Baby (@Alldogsaredead) January 3, 2018
Some people really phoned it in:
Black mirror season 5 pitch:
uhhhhhhhhhhhhh so there’s like this duuuude and he likeeeeeee never looks up from his phoneeeeeee and it’s likeeeeeeee his life is just likeeeeeeee going by and he’s likeeeeee missing out then he dies and the phone is still alive
— Carl Sperg (@jckgnn) December 30, 2017
Others pointed out that the existential hellscape of our current reality is already enough of a Black Mirror episode:
Black Mirror Jan 1: Youtube star films dead body as desperate need for clicks consumes him
Black Mirror Jan 2: US President threatens nuclear war on social media with penis metaphor
— Drew Schnoebelen (@Dschnoeb) January 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/948020170890629120
https://twitter.com/AnnaRussett/status/948384908594024448
https://twitter.com/ChrisFedler/status/948443507055734786
If “president starts war with tweet” was a Black Mirror plot we’d be like “dude, it’s season 4, try harder”
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) January 3, 2018
Well, that was a bummer. Maybe these next pitches will be more cheerful? (SPOILER: it’s Black Mirror, so no, they won’t be more cheerful. Also, smartphone games are hijacking your microphone to gather commodifiable data on you and Comcast is probably going to kidnap your family until you like them on Facebook, or something.)
https://twitter.com/dumbfoundead/status/947234371462762496
Latest Black Mirror Pitch: An episode about watching a Black Mirror episode with a family member when your home for the holidays and having to explain it to them because they keep asking questions.
— Cat Apologist (@Protagonist45) December 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/JackedYoTweets/status/948431626647867393
(Hat tip to Mashable, Decider, and Twitter)
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