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Reality Finally Caught Up With Black Mirror
‘Joan is Awful’ shows the implications of artificial intelligence and deepfakes
Ok, I get it: everyone agrees that the latest season of Black Mirror sucked. The shock value and clever critique of our relationship with technology is long gone in favor of much blander stories. On one hand, it’s true that it’s hard to find new ways to entertain people with dystopias.
But what if Black Mirror actually got scarier than it ever was, in a much more subtle way?
Joan is Awful
You’d think everyone’s dream is to be a protagonist in your own fiction, right? Well, think again: it happens to the protagonist of season six’s first episode, and it’s a nightmare.
Joan is not perfect, and we see her making a few mistakes as we follow her through her day. It wouldn’t be anything special, if it wasn’t for the fact that on the same night everyone else sees how her day went. Streamberry, a streaming service bearing an uncanny resemblance to Netflix, has collected data about her day and turned it into a…
