When Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker wrote “Common People,” about a couple who adopts lifesaving technology only for its subscription model to price them out of life-critical features, “our producer Richard Webb said, ‘That is the most Black Mirror script I’ve ever read,’ ” he says. “The scenes where we had Chris O’Dowd, Rashida Jones and Tracee Ellis Ross together were some of the most fun — where you get the collision of bleak humor with the horrible dystopian situation they’re caught in.”

Brooker had already been thinking about the idea of a person who was clinically dead being kept alive via digital means — “What would happen if your brain was being streamed into your head, and the sort of comic or bleak ramifications of that” — when he came across the concept of “enshitt

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