00:00Doveva essere pazzesco prima del sistema. Non ti succederà niente. E andrà tutto bene.
00:30I suppose there probably are in that what we've done in this season is we've pushed again the differences between
00:40each episode.
00:41So we've got six stories and they're all entirely different in terms of the tone, the setting, the look.
00:48And yet, so you want them to all be different and yet you want them to all feel like a
00:53Black Mirror episode.
00:55So there is something they have all in common, but it's really hard to say what that is.
01:01It's probably there's a slightly feverish, paranoid tone that runs throughout them all.
01:07That's probably where the unwritten rule is, I guess.
01:11Yes, I would agree with that, yeah.
01:14And as to the choice of directors, is there any guidelines that you have?
01:21This particular more romantic episode that will fit up with a particular director?
01:30I think you want the director to respond to the script and if they are interpreting it and reading it
01:38the same way you are,
01:39then, you know, you think you're on to something, but because we treat them all as individual films,
01:45we have separate directors on each one, because it's important in an anthology season for them to all have their
01:50own different look.
01:52So that's something we encourage.
01:54I suppose that the main themes and tone of the show will remain the same on the fourth season,
02:01but is there a particular theme or main idea woven through the new set of episodes?
02:08Not necessarily through the new ones.
02:11I mean, generally speaking, the show tends to worry.
02:15It's worried.
02:16It's a worried show, hopefully entertainingly so.
02:19Sometimes, and it's worrying about, it's not what doesn't happen in the show.
02:25It's not technology being a villain.
02:28Often what happens in our episodes is there's some miraculous piece of technology
02:33which is giving flawed human beings immense power,
02:39and that's often where the story idea comes from.
02:42Or it's putting someone in a terrible sort of dilemma,
02:46and it's to do with the ruthless logic of the sort of system that's working.
02:51So those tend to be the sort of stories we do, and that tends to be a common thread, I
02:57guess.
02:57But I think sometimes the stories have a very upbeat and positive ending.
03:02So it's a worried show in that maybe it sort of looks at potential perilous situations
03:09or worlds that feel out of control.
03:10But then, you know, San Junipero, we did an episode last season,
03:14which was incredibly romantic and idealised in some respects.
03:19So there's a range of tone, I think, because you don't want to be predictable,
03:24and you don't want to be constantly nihilistic, because it becomes predictable.
03:28You did not write and design the new episode to, you know, do something new?
03:38Well, I think they're all, I hope they're all new.
03:42I hope they all feel different.
03:43I hope they're all, we're taking on different stories and different genres.
03:46You know, we have this big space epic.
03:48We have an American indie drama directed by Jodie Foster.
03:51We have, you know, almost like a rom-com, a film about dating,
03:55dating in the modern world.
03:56We have a thriller.
03:57We have a survival horror.
04:00They're all very different.
04:03But, yeah, so they're all bringing something new and different new in looks,
04:08but they just have a sensibility that maybe, you know,
04:12once you see them all, you'll recognise, I think, as a DNA to them.
04:15And tonally, they're very different this time around as well.
04:18So we are, we've got horrible, nasty, chilling, upsetting episodes.
04:23And we've also got some more playful and almost, in fact,
04:27overtly comedic ones as well this season.
04:30So we're definitely toying with what the show is more than we have before.
04:34Yeah.
04:35Can you recall the oddest or more puzzling viewer reaction
04:39to a Black Mirror episode that you heard or read about?
04:44The very first episode we did with the Prime Minister and the pig
04:48often gets a remarkable reaction from people.
04:53I think a lot of British viewers tend to see that as they see the comedy in it.
04:58And sometimes, like, American viewers don't, I would say.
05:04Yes.
05:04I'm trying to think if there's a specific example of somebody.
05:07Has anyone ever thrown up while watching one of our episodes?
05:11I think it surprises me when some people don't know it's an anthology show
05:15and they watch the first episode.
05:16Yeah.
05:16And you sort of think, what do they think the second episode is going to be?
05:19I know.
05:20After the pig.
05:21Yeah.
05:21Yeah.
05:22And if anyone's come to it thinking it's a documentary,
05:24that also would be worrisome.
05:25That would be very worrisome.
05:27Although we're often said that, yeah, a lot of people say that sometimes
05:30the films are coming true.
05:31So who knows?
05:33I said
05:37What a wonderful
05:43Tutto accade per una ragione.
05:47Oh, my God.
05:50Oh, my God.
05:53Oh, my God.
05:54Oh, my God.
05:55Oh, my God.
05:55Oh, my God.
05:55Grazie a tutti
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