Category: Charlie Brooker
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The Big Breakfast: the first meal of Cool Britainnia
Yes I know, I’ve perhaps been reading too much of Mark Fisher of late, but I really do think he was on to something. Perhaps it’s because I’m a child of the 90s, maybe because my first ever proper job gave me a front row seat in the ever-accelerating juggernaut…
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Breaking Bad: A Review
Ever since The Wire and Battlestar Galactica finished, I’ve been looking for an episodic drama that is more than your terrorist-chasing, baddie-bagging, clock-ticking thrill ride. Dexter was OK, House is too convoluted, Lost just got boring and the British dramas simply cannot compete at the moment (although Luther, I here,…
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Brand/Ross affair…
Saw this last week and couldn’t let it pass without further trumpeting. Sums up the whole thing perfectly for me, and while his prime concern is comedy, I think Charlie Brooker is spot on when it comes to the plight of Newspapers. With free papers, on-line news and 24-hour news…
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