Are you ready for the most meta 'Black Mirror' episode ever? Netflix series tackles timely AI technology with 'Joan Is Awful' starring Annie Murphy.
), which features twisted tales where bad things are caused by new technology, is meant to “go back to basics and slightly rethink what ‘Black Mirror’ is, on some level,” says creator/writer Charlie Brooker. “Nowadays there's a lot of shows that are full of people surrounded by chrome and glass crying as an app destroys their life.”
Depression and panic attacks ensue when the world tunes in, and Joan ends up fighting back in a darkly comic satire that tackles social media, AI in entertainment, deepfake technology and image rights. Brooker says “Joan Is Awful” spawned from the idea of a 24-hour streaming deepfake news network with “overtly fictionalized content but starring politicians”; the thought of an average woman waking up to find herself on the cover of a newspaper with the headline “Joan is awful”; and a recent rash of TV dramas dramatizing events and people of the recent past.
A longtime “Black Mirror” fan, Murphy’s jaw “just kept dropping and dropping” until she got to a wild scene set at a church: “I was like, ‘If this isn't the part for me, I don't know what is.” At her wit’s end, Joan decides to create a bit of chaos that a big star like Hayek would never let go to air involving a cheerleader outfit, several burgers, a full bottle of laxative and a wedding. “It was so beautifully blasphemous and funny and over the top,” Murphy says.
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