Tenth of December: A Black Mirror Spin-off

While reading the Tenth of December stories by George Saunders, I immediately found a strong connection to the Netflix series Black Mirror. Black Mirror is a personal favorite of mine, for I find the individual episodes to be interesting and diverse, and each episode is intertwined with the next. Saunders writes his short stories in a quite similar way, having all of his short stories have a common theme with a focus on a lost and powerless male main character. He also set most of the stories in the near future with technological advances, like in Black Mirror. While Saunders chooses to focus on a male main character, Black Mirror has characters in focus from all different sexes, races, and backgrounds. No two characters in either Tenth of December or Black Mirror are the same, and both the book and the TV series seem to paint the characters and their personal lives very clearly. I found their styles to be quite unique, and that is why it was so easy for me to see such a strong connection between the two, because they both are so unlike anything I have ever read before. Both Tenth of December and Black Mirror force their audience out of his or her comfort zone, purposely making the reader or viewer uncomfortable in order to push their audience towards making a change and seeing the injustices within themselves and in society.