Before there was Black Mirror, there was Charlie Brooker. The British writer has never settled on one genre: he’s been a cartoonist, a video game critic, a columnist, and a satirist. At one point, he even created a successful zombie series focused on the Big Brother house. But in 2024, he’s made a name for himself with two equally brilliant creations courtesy of Netflix’s streaming platform: dystopian anthology series Black Mirror, and Diane Morgan’s deadpan parody documentarian Philomena Cunk.
While they both have so much in common, these two brainchildren have remained estranged, existing in separate worlds with wildly different tones. While Philomena Cunk has been comparing history to the Belgian techno anthem “Pump Up the Jam,” Black Mirror has been telling twisted stories of technology gone wrong.
