The episode of season 7, entitled “Playhythinghing”, is a tribute to – or perhaps a story of horror that tells – Brooker time as a video game journalist in the 1990s. Brooker wrote for a game magazine entitled PC Zone, which plays a role in the series, and had to see a Sim Life game once again called Creatures. “It is as autobiographical as that, because then all kinds of horrible things happen,” explains Brooker. The protagonist of the episode visits the character of Poulter, who places him on the dark path of the series. Brooker wanted “the juxtaposition to make it as cute as possible and to have quite disturbing and dark things”.
(It must be said that the representation by the program of a game journalist – a socially clumsy and socially clumsy white guy whose parody of the borders of stuttering and social burgundy – is so painful, I cannot decide to be a little insulted in the stereotype or to ask to hear stories of horror of Brooker on a steep drink.)
It was not the first time that Kankell had not presented a collaboration in Brooker; He says it Black mirror The creator had been “Meh” on previous ideas. (“Surely I didn’t” Meh “, says Brooker.) But the episode presented a game game” Tamagotchi Gone Wrall Wading Life “, says Krankel, this night school had a good idea.
Bottlenecks– The game has the same name in real life as in the show – is a bit like Stardew valley Or Zoo. You raise tiny yellow creatures, bottlenecks, while multiplying. You are solely responsible for keeping them clean, happy and nourished. Unfortunately, from what I played from the mobile game, it is a task that becomes uncontrollable very quickly. The annoying little bottlenecks remember when you let them be hungry or bored; As their number increases, they will start to die if you cannot act quickly enough.
“Charlie said something at first that we wrote very quickly on the wall:” The bottlenecks are adorable and horrible “, and that’s the game,” says Krankel. “We want you to fall in love with this character. We want you to multiply them, but guess what – you raise them too … These creatures are a reflection of you, finally. “
Black mirroThe new R on N on Netflix season today, April 10. Krankel would not disclose a lot of details on how Bottlenecks Binds to the episode “Playser”, but said that there are ways that “the game speaks to the series and vice versa … There are things attached to the series that will return to the game.”
