Black Mirror is a bleak, terrifying, dystopian nightmare… though its creator reckons we're taking it all a bit too seriously.

Charlie Brooker has suggested that we actually "overlook the humour" in the Netflix anthology series – and given his background in comedy, maybe we shouldn't be too surprised.

"I think it’s often easy for people to overlook the dark humour that is in Black Mirror," he explained at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in London (via Press Association).

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"Certainly when the ideas come about, it’s an idea that makes me laugh. But then we play it really straight. Having said that, I’m proud to be a morose individual."

Brooker also opened up about Black Mirror's latest outing Bandersnatch, admitting that he learned how to code while making the choose-your-own-adventure-style episode.

"It was quite a challenge," he said. "It was like trying to solve a puzzle. It wasn’t a normal writing experience. I literally had to learn to code to write the story treatment.

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"It was a very different process. We knew it was experimental. I was very keen that we try out things in the episode that maybe weren’t even apparent to viewers.

"We tried lots of things to flex the muscles of the situation. It’s gratifying that people enjoyed it – and that it worked."

In Bandersnatch, viewers make a series of choices to drive the narrative forward, and it seems that Netflix has been recording all of these, too. Because, of course.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and seasons 1-4 are all streaming now on Netflix.



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