Cross Doctor Who with a sprinkling of Black Mirror-styled dystopia, and you’ll end up with the sci-fi series’ sixth episode, Dot and Bubble.
Meet Lindy Pepperbean. When she wakes up every day, she immediately switches on her ‘bubble’ – essentially, a VR social media feed crossed with a golfball – and spends the entire day immersed in it, with barely a thought for the outside world. Her home? A far-flung planet called Finetime, where everything is indeed “fine all of the time”, and everything comes bedecked in shades of pastel. Hooray!
