 Okay, okay. We know Black Mirror episodes are supposed to reflect our reality, bring to light scary possible future scenarios, and generally freak us out – but this is genuinely quite weird. Season six of the hit show aired not long ago, and fans have been going wild over episode one, called Joan is Awful. In it Joan – played by Annie Murphy – is appalled when she turns on, er, Streamberry (aka, Netflix) and finds a protagonist played by Salma Hayek with her hair, name, and life playing out on screen. Gulp, indeed. What transpires is a hectic show, which we won't spoil for you. So some people were pretty shocked when Fearne Cotton – yes, the real one – took to social media to announce the arrival of her first novel, Scripted, which will be out in June next year. A few of Fearne's fans leapt to compare her concept to the Black Mirror episode in the comments section of her video, as one wrote: 'Watch black mirror joan is awful its kind of like this.' [sic] Another said: 'Have you seen the first episode of Black mirror? It's called Jane is awful and it's a very similar story as Scripted which I cannot wait to read by the way!' 'Love this – very Black Mirror, which is right up my street!' commented someone else. 'I've written a hell of a lot of non-fiction but I've been really excited by the idea of fiction,' Fearne said in the self-facing video. Fearne's book Scripted is out in June 2024 (Picture: Fearne Cotton/Instagram) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'I kind of had this idea land in my head out of the blue, it was really strange,' said Fearne, before she went on to explain the general blurb of the book. The Happy Place podcaster's blurb started off fairly normal with a woman in her early 30s who has lost her voice (metaphorically, not physically) and wants to get){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Okay, okay. We know Black Mirror episodes are supposed to reflect our reality, bring to light scary possible future scenarios, and generally freak us out – but this is genuinely quite weird.
Season six of the hit show aired not long ago, and fans have been going wild over episode one, called Joan is Awful.
In it Joan – played by Annie Murphy – is appalled when she turns on, er, Streamberry (aka, Netflix) and finds a protagonist played by Salma Hayek with her hair, name, and life playing out on screen.
Gulp, indeed. What transpires is a hectic show, which we won’t spoil for you.