Stealing this from Jared on Facebook:
Actually, I saw this show available for download in Torrent-land a few days ago. I'm pretend-busy, so put it on my to-get-back-to list, and forgot about it. The show: BBC's How TV Ruined Your Life.
The host, Carlie Brooker, is laugh-out-loud funny. The show is wonderfully satirical of modern media, and what it has done to us, and our perception of the world around us. Definitely out-of-the-box, though simplified for a mass audience, this show, if it ever made it to North American Airwaves, would put up a real fight with the likes of the Colbert Report, and pretty much everything on the Discovery Channel. Thus far, there've been six episodes: How the TV has made us scared, made jokes of every stage of our lives, made us all aspire to wealth and fame, and messed up our love lives, dependence on technology, and even our own notion of knowledge.
In a decidedly British word: Brilliant.
Here's a clip:
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