Black Mirror Cracked

A recurring theme among all the actors interviewed for this podcast is a deep love for the acting masterclass that is Be Right Back. [Hayley Atwell](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2017943/) (Martha) and [Domhnall Gleeson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1727304/?ref_=nv_sr_1) (Ash) play out the saddest, most delicate two-hander in the middle of a rural nowhere. Martha gets what everyone broken by sharp new grief desperately wants: the loved one resurrected. Technology steps in to make that not quite happen, and the result is a perfect mix of joy and horror. The episode shares a director, [Owen Harris](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2787176/?ref_=tt_ov_dr), with Season 4's double-Emmy-winning San Junipero, and you can tell. Black Mirror at its finest? Mirror Online journalist Harriet Flook (@[harrietkhark](https://twitter.com/harrietkhark)) joins the podcast to examine exactly why. -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every week. For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/) group, follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/BlackMirrorCrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-4-9000052?service=responsive) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

It's the first time that a Black Mirror twist completely pulls the rug out from underneath the audience. A lost, terrified woman, Victoria (Lenora Crichlow), wakes up without her memory, and is continuously chased through the endless countryside. Jem (Tuppence Middleton) comes to her aid, but there's a crowd of people just standing around in silence, creepily filming Victoria's plight on their mobile phones. Journalists Jo-Anne Rowney (@[JoAnne_Rowney](https://twitter.com/JoAnne_Rowney)) and Kyle O'Sullivan (@[Kyle95Osullivan](https://twitter.com/Kyle95Osullivan)) join the podcast to talk crime, punishment and morality, a conversation that continues into a Season 3 pod, Shut Up and Dance, which will be available in the next few weeks. We see Victoria's face full of fear in close-up, hear her hyperventilating, fear for her when she's threatened. Are we wrong to care? -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every week. For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/BlackMirrorCrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-4-9000052?service=responsive) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

Rhashan Stone, who plays Jeff in The Entire History of You, calls Season 1's finale "Black Mirror before it was Black Mirror." He has a point: it's the first episode to feature a cranial implant and future tech that undoes a pair of lives. It's the only episode written by Peep Show co-creator [Jesse Armstrong](https://twitter.com/jessearmstrong1?lang=en), and he brings the point-of-view camera technique over to this episode of Black Mirror with him. Jeff is the first character to show the audience just how deep into a past experience the characters can go, with recollections that they can (but probably shouldn't) revisit any time: "This is a 5-star suite! I paid good money to have perfect details! Now? I've got that sh***y carpet. For the rest of my life." Little do any of them realise just how far Liam (Toby Kebbell) will fall down the rabbit hole of memory. [Read our analysis of The Entire History of You here](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/blackmirror-thirdepisode-theentirehistoryofyou-12260563). -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every week. For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/BlackMirrorCrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-4-9000052?service=responsive) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

Peep Show's Jesse Armstrong (@[jessearmstrong1](https://twitter.com/jessearmstrong1)) has the sole writing credit on this episode, and he brings the point-of-view camera technique with him. [The Entire History of You](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/blackmirror-thirdepisode-theentirehistoryofyou-12260563) explores a world where everyone's memories are recorded and available for public viewing. Photographer James Ide (@[Jymography](https://twitter.com/Jymography)) joins the podcast with an illuminating John Berger quote: "The camera relieves us of the burden of memory; it surveys us like a god, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget." It's the first episode where technology is embedded into people. Still, it remains capable of betraying them, given a determined enough interrogator, and a surprising secret. -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Wednesday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us [@BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/BlackMirrorCrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-4-9000052?service=responsive) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

Before Black Mirror became the phenomenon we know it as today, [The National Anthem](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/blackmirror-firstepisode-thenationalanthem-12200108) was touted as a Charlie Brooker show about the Prime Minister having to do something humiliating with a pig. How far the show has come, you might think - but lots of Black Mirror's classic themes are in this surprisingly heartbreaking episode, as guest James Rodger (@[jamesdrodger](https://twitter.com/jamesdrodger)), [Birmingham Live](https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/)'s resident Season 1 super-fan, helps explain. There's the impact of technology on ages-old institutions, seen most obviously when YouTube videos keep scooping major broadcasters. There's a bad guy who's not all he seems - but no clear-cut good guys. There's a relationship unravelled, unable to stay fully intact when held up to public scrutiny. Let's head back to December 2011 and take another look at Black Mirror's maiden voyage… -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Wednesday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/danoogie))

"I'Il say Hang the DJ, and it always takes them a minute to go 'oh yeah'… so no one ever recognises me! I usually have to forcibly tell them who I am…" If that's the case now for Georgina Campbell (@[G_ACampbell](https://twitter.com/G_ACampbell)), it certainly won't stay that way for long. Georgina auditioned for Black Mirror a number of times, before finally finding her perfect match of a role. As [Hang the DJ](https://audioboom.com/posts/6571905-hang-the-dj)'s cheeky but switched-on Amy, Georgina gets to play the only Black Mirror character who's come close to guessing the twist in her own tale. Plus, it's the Season 4 episode that everyone just loves, right? -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). [](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/danoogie))

We're joined by Fifteen Million Merits actor Paul Popplewell (@[PaulPopplewell](https://twitter.com/PaulPopplewell)), who plays Dustin, with episode analysis from [Birmingham Live](https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/)'s resident Season 1 super-fan, James Rodger (@[jamesdrodger](https://twitter.com/jamesdrodger)). Daniel Kaluuya might've narrowly missed out on an Oscar for Get Out, but his journey to that role began with Jordan Peele seeing this lead performance. Paul tells us what it was like to work alongside Daniel on a Black Mirror episode before any of the shows had even aired on Channel 4. Meanwhile, James reminds us what it was like to be a viewer in December 2011 and watch this episode for the first time, as Black Mirror began to take shape as a series. -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/danoogie))

"He insisted on not being hugged. So I went out of my way, every time he came on set, to go and give him a big hug, despite my blue. I tried to always keep him on his toes…" That's [Milanka Brooks](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/black-mirror-uss-callister-milankabrooks-12090462) (@[MilankaBrooks](https://twitter.com/MilankaBrooks)) talking about Black Mirror co-creator Charlie Brooker's visits to the set of USS Callister. She goes on to recall the time Jodie Foster glimpsed her greenish post-work hands - but couldn't really say why, thanks to the non-disclosure agreement. Remind yourself of the Season 4 opener with our [USS Callister episode analysis](https://audioboom.com/posts/6571897-uss-callister). There's loads more fun behind-the-scenes stuff from Milanka on the pod - enjoy! -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). [](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-4-9000052?service=responsive) For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

Yorkie and Kelly seem doomed to be star-crossed lovers in [San Junipero](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-reviews/black-mirror-season3-san-junipero-9061643), with one of Black Mirror's cruellest twists threatening to keep them apart forever. Enter [Nurse Greg](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/black-mirror-san-junipero-nursegreg-12065520), the most selfless character ever to be written by Charlie Brooker. The man behind the nurse, Raymond McAnally (@[MtnMack](https://twitter.com/MtnMack)), joins the pod this week to tell us how he felt when he won the "golden ticket" of being cast in Black Mirror's double-Emmy-winning and most-loved episode. Hear more from Ray on his Amazon Prime show, Ray McAnally's Size Matters ([US](https://www.amazon.co.uk/McAnallys-Size-Matters-Raymond-McAnally/dp/B01NBJ1WUN) or [UK](https://www.amazon.com/McAnallys-Size-Matters-Raymond-McAnally/dp/B01N7GK6AM)). -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

"He literally loves the sound of his own voice!" That's Douglas Hodge (@[Dhodgem](https://twitter.com/Dhodgem)) on his character [Rolo Haynes, the owner of Black Museum](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/blackmuseum-blackmirror-rolohaynes-douglashodge-charliebrooker-12033307). Doug skyped into the pod from New York, where he's in rehearsals for the play Fire and Air. He tells us about acting out every single word of the Season 4 finale, why he wasn't very friendly to Letitia Wright (Nish) on set and what "bashful" Charlie Brooker was like to work with. Remind yourself of the episode with our [Black Museum episode analysis](https://audioboom.com/posts/6571909-black-museum). -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things Black Mirror. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

It's not really a fan favourite, but @[MirrorTech](https://twitter.com/MirrorTech)'s Jeff Parsons (@[jparsons989](https://twitter.com/jparsons989)) and @[MirrorPolitics](https://twitter.com/MirrorPolitics)' Mikey Smith (@[mikeysmith](https://twitter.com/mikeysmith)) like it, so this week they've joined the podcast to tell you why [The Waldo Moment](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/blackmirror-waldomoment-trump-boris-11994104) matters. A cartoon figure who says that politicians are rubbish (but runs for office alongside them), that the political system is rubbish (but competes for power within it) and is inexplicably popular with large swathes of the public - it's no wonder that people see the rise of President Donald Trump foretold in this episode. Looking to the future, does the growing influence of the tech sector over all of our lives mean that a Mark Zuckerberg run for office will one day be dominating our newsfeeds? Or at least the Animoji version of him?? -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things Black Mirror. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

… happens for a reason! Season 4's most adorable episode is about a love that overcomes 'The System'… at least 99.8% of the time. The voice of that system - Coach - guides Amy (Georgina Campbell) and Frank (Joe Cole) through their dating hits and misses before they meet their Ultimate One on the ominously-named Pairing Day. Actress Gina Bramhill (@[GinaBramhill](https://twitter.com/GinaBramhill)) - [the voice of Coach](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/blackmirror-hangthedj-coach-gina-bramhill-11945072) - tells us what it's like for a Black Mirror fan to get a part on the show, and why she's just as surprised by the ending as we are. [Read our review of Season 4's Hang the DJ here.](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-reviews/black-mirror-hang-dj-review-11656504) -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things Black Mirror. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

You've battled your way through all of Black Mirror Season 4, now sit back and relax while [we find the Easter Eggs for you](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/black-mirror-easter-eggs-twitter-11798881)! Beckett Mufson (@[BeckettMufson](https://twitter.com/BeckettMufson)), Vice US Staff Writer, tells us about all the telling little details he noticed, and what they mean for the world of Black Mirror. -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things Black Mirror. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

The creators of Black Mirror walk us through each episode in Season 4, callbacks to previous episodes - and their inability to name our podcast! Charlie Brooker (@[charltonbrooker](https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker)) and Annabel Jones [speak to us ahead of the release of Season 4](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/charlie-brooker-annabel-jones-blackmirror4-11676910) on Netflix. -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things Black Mirror. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))

Everything comes together, as we visit Black Mirror's Season 4 finale, [Black Museum](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-reviews/black-mirror-black-museum-review-11656513). Daily Mirror journalists and superfans, Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) and Ryan Brown (@[Toadsanime](https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker)), trace the threads of the pain and technology knotted throughout the three stories contained within. For more insight into Black Museum, here's our interview with (grim) master of ceremonies himself, [Rolo Haynes aka Douglas Hodge](https://audioboom.com/posts/6676906-black-museum-s-lead-tells-us-why-charlie-brooker-s-a-dangerous-writer). -- Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - your podcast for all things Black Mirror. We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every Friday morning (GMT). For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1794095810893271/), follow us @[BlackMirrorCrrr](https://twitter.com/blackmirrorcrrr) and have a read of [mirror.co.uk/blackmirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/netflix-black-mirror-season-5-11727831) Thanks for listening! Host: Suchandrika Chakrabarti (@[SuchandrikaC](https://twitter.com/SuchandrikaC)) Podcasts produced by Daniel Jackson (@[Danoogie](https://twitter.com/Danoogie))