TV Ruined Your Life & Charlie Brooker Knows How

Imagine you are a dreamer. Every night, you have rich and detailed dreams about your best life — you have the ideal partner (or single life), you're wealthy and fulfilled, you have a strong cocktail of varied friends mixed into a great social group, and enough emotional deviations and conflict to keep things from becoming boring. It's perfect, and you're happy there. Imagine waking up each day from those idyllic dreams, retaining all the joy and love and fun you've had in them as you go about your very different reality. It's kind of disappointing, then, this world and its people.