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It's been replaced by whatever genre you would describe Black Mirror as. A reflection of the modern dystopia we live in within the context of the current year.


I agree that Black Mirror is one of the few original attempts at doing proper scifi about the near future, that we’ve had in quite some time. I wish it were not so utterly depressing, my mental health can barely stomach a single episode every month or so. If that were a genre, I would call it “cybercynical”.




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