As the best fiction writer will tell you, stories with uncannily parallels in reality are products of happenstance and informed guesswork. The sci-fi genre is based on taking a known and spinning out possible ways man's hubris could make it go dark or terribly awry. That's why it's also referred to as speculative fiction.
Even if we know this to be true, "Joan Is Awful," the sixth season premiere of "Black Mirror," is an almost supernaturally precise parable that plays with the very real fears popping up in recent news chyrons.
