Black Mirror's high concept and sci-fi leanings allow it to pad those episodes out with world building and expository scenes that can either call attention to or divert attention away from the parable they're telling, but Twilight Zone's moral center means the half hour format would probably work better. It doesn't carry any weight if the character spends half the episode confused about what's going on while we basically get it right away.


They had me up until the nephew disappeared, though. I thought it was going to go in a different direction, where he would tell fake but relatable stories on stage to build his audience, but he would increasingly think he was living his lies while the world kept going the same around him. As his act gets more and more successful his personal life completely falls apart as everyone around him thinks he's losing his mind.


Same basic idea I suppose but it felt a little more original before he pulled the classic "accidentally ruined my girlfriend's life" move.


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