This is why we can't have nice things.

According to Variety, the new heads of production company Endemol Shine North America want to adapt the Twilight Zone-esque U.K. sci-fi series Black Mirror for American audiences, because U.S. remakes of British shows have always worked out so well in the past.

Thousands of Yankee eyeballs were recently introduced to the brilliant, clever, and twisted beauty of Black Mirror when the first six episodes (more have been commissioned) arrived on Netflix in early December and quickly earned lots of buzz online. So I suppose it only makes sense that someone now wants to rehash them for seemingly no good reason. It's practically an American tradition at this point!



You really have to wonder why U.S. TV execs put so much effort into copycatting British series, especially since there's no language barrier to deal with. Sure, some of them are successful—USA's Sirens, HBO's Getting On, and Showtime's Shameless come to mind—but unless there's a risk of losing too much of the original work in translation, why bother?





Where do you stand on a possible Black Mirror remake?





