{"id":969,"date":"2016-10-22T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=969"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T00:25:12","slug":"science-fiction-tv-and-contemporary-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/10\/22\/science-fiction-tv-and-contemporary-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction TV and Contemporary Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pacific Standard<\/em><\/a> magazine has published a fascinating article about <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/apocalypse-now-how-televisions-boldest-sci-fi-shows-are-tackling-contemporary-injustice-b61f4c5ad4c7\" target=\"_blank\">how popular science fiction TV shows examine contemporary injustices<\/a>. The article specifically discusses how three shows set in present-day America &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2699128\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Leftovers<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2085059\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Black Mirror<\/em><\/a>, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4158110\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Robot<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>&#8212; explore dystopian realities.\u00a0I&#8217;ve seen every episode of the concluded seasons of <em>The Leftovers<\/em> and <em>Black Mirror<\/em>, but only finished season one of <em>Mr. Robot<\/em>, as that show was not as compelling to me as the other two. Maybe I should give it another chance and watch season two, but first I&#8217;ll need to check out the just-released season three of <em>Black Mirror<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Standard magazine has published a fascinating article about how popular science fiction TV shows examine contemporary injustices. The article specifically discusses how three shows set in present-day America &#8212;\u00a0The Leftovers, Black Mirror, and Mr. Robot\u00a0&#8212; explore dystopian realities.\u00a0I&#8217;ve seen every episode of the concluded seasons of The Leftovers and Black Mirror, but only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[13,22214,3504],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-inequality","tag-media-culture","tag-social-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}