After four years of everything looking like a “Black Mirror” episode, Netflix’s British anthology series is back with season six. MOST META STORY EVER: Collapses around her when a mundane woman’s daily life is transformed into high-end streaming her drama.
Annie Murphy, the Emmy Award winner for “Sitt’s Creek,” who plays the lead character in “Joan is Terrible,” doesn’t think she can handle the situation as well as Joan. And she can’t move on. ”
The new fifth season of The Mirror (currently streaming) features a twisted tale of how bad things can be caused by new technology, and “back to basics, what is ‘Black Mirror’ on some level? The purpose is to reconsider a little says creator/writer Charlie Brooker. “Now there are a lot of shows surrounded by chrome and glass, apps destroying lives, and full of crying people.”
One of the new chapters (“Loch Henry”) delves into real-life crime obsessions, and another (“Demon 79”) throws 1970s British horror back in time. “Joan is Terrible” is a classic “Black Mirror” episode. Joan works as a middle manager at a tech company and comes home after a particularly bleak day to find that the top new show on the Netflix-like service Streamberry has been adapted. . Her own life starring Salma Hayek.
As the world tunes in, depression and panic attacks set in, and Joan fights back in a dark, cartoonish satire that tackles social media, AI in entertainment, deepfake technology, image rights, and more.
Even more meta for you really: In one scene, a copy of USA TODAY’s entertainment section advertises the success of the “Joan” show — Brooker calls it a “loving homage” — Meanwhile, another scene features a nice scream that all Brian appreciates.
Brooker said “Joan Is Awful” was born from the idea of a 24-hour streaming deepfake news network with “clearly fictionalized content but starring politicians.” She thinks that if a normal woman wakes up in the morning, she’ll find herself on the front page of a newspaper with the headline “Joan is Terrible.” And recently, there has been a surge in TV dramas that dramatize recent events and people. Brooker and his wife were watching Hulu’s “The Dropout,” about Theranos con artist Elizabeth Holmes, and said, “She turns on the TV and ‘The Dropout’ is on. See an episode of ‘The Dropout’ imagined.
Black Mirror was visionary in storytelling, and Joan is Terrible came right at a time when AI was one of the hottest topics in Hollywood. (This episode was filmed last fall, just weeks before the launch of the ChatGPT software.) It’s “too overly relevant at this point,” Murphy says, adding that “people are already thinking about their images and stories.” It’s just out of control, never.” She didn’t think much about how AI might affect her on a personal or professional level, but before that, there are more questions. can happen. ”
Murphy, a longtime Black Mirror fan, said his jaw “kept dropping” until he got to the wild church scene. What is. After some brainstorming, Joan decides to use a cheerleader outfit, a few hamburgers, and a full bottle to create a bit of chaos that a big star like Hayek could never air (eventually, of course!). (It will be broadcast worldwide in 2013.) Laxatives and weddings “It was so beautiful and profane and funny and over the top,” Murphy says.
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The day’s shoot was “full of laughter, we were all back in fourth grade, and the toilet humor brought us all together in the most beautiful way,” Murphy said, adding that Hayek interpreted the scene in her own way. rice field. The TV Joan mirrors the real Joan’s actions) shortly thereafter. “Of course, it looks like she’s on the cover of Vanity Fair for some reason while she’s doing it, but I’m just sweating and messing around.”
The extremities in which the characters of Black Mirror are usually put are terrifying, outrageous, and terrifying, and Brooker’s comedy career (2000s British late-night shows and sitcoms) is largely due to those gags. (including the script of ) are often used. He refers to tweets that people often show. “‘Black Mirror’ was written by a rock-hard British guy sitting there saying, ‘What if your mom ran on batteries?'” “It’s not far from the truth. ’” Brooker says, laughing. “Aside from the stone bits. I can’t do that anymore.”
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“Joan Is Awful” is clearly insane. But Murphy wonders what an “Annie is Terrible” episode might look like.
“It would be very boring,” she says. “A lot of people would have sat on their couches and watched Below Deck. They would often take long walks around the neighborhood, petting the dog she found. Really, that’s it. So Joanne, not Annie.” It’s been really nice because we have something more appealing to Joan.”
