Netflix's new series "Black Mirror," which fans and critics alike say is this generation's "Twilight Zone" — probably meaning super ramped up creepiness that only years of perfecting horror and thriller films can bring — is being promoted in a new ad that may deter you from wanting to watch the show at all.
The show itself is a vignette-style drama featuring "satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia" and general queasiness about the modern world, according the the show's Wikipedia page. A different way of saying that is that it explores the dark side of things like binge-watching Netflix.
The new ad is a meta exploration of that dark side and, if it's successful in bringing in viewers, begs the question: what's going on with us as a culture that we are intrigued rather than repulsed by technology that would allow us to binge watch our stories no matter where we are?
Dark, creepy, yet intriguing. Definitely intriguing.
