where Black Mirror makes us reflect upon politics and society, Likely Stories makes us take a closer look at the self. These stories are about what it’s like to be a mind in a body, a person within a personality. You find yourself thinking about what a weird and messy business being alive is. Although it has to be said that being alive, with its terrors and strangeness, isn’t a bad lot. For a start, you get to watch television this good every once in a while.

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