Black Mirror Analysis | White Christmas

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas, I meanwhile got absolutely wasted and watched all six episodes of Planet Earth 2. It was amazing. To any loyal HP fans - I'm seeing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child tomorrow so expect a video on that and a review of that Doctor Who Christmas special over the next few days. Enjoy!

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[SB-kijw]

I think by far the darkest torture in the series is on the AI at the end of the episode. Basically millions of years of unending torture in a small space and annoying music. Horrible

[SkylordSweddy]

Listening to 'I Wish It Was Christmas Every Day' in the room you unintentionally murdered the father of your recently deceased ex-girlfriend with a snow globe that was supposed to be a gift to your child whom you have never seen the face of who turned out to not be your child and the body of that child lays dead outside your window for one-thousand years per real-life second for the entirety of christmas until some bloke returns to their job at which you will probably be deleted from existance.
Harsh.

[YoMamasLlama]

What bugs me is the fact that blocking the guy at the end from everyone really doesn't make any sense. He can still interact with society, just can't communicate with anyone. It's really only a matter of time before he gets fed up and starts killing people, seeing as they're just dehumanized blobs now and he's marked as 'dangerous'. Like how many years would it realistically be before he just says f it I've had enough of this and does something dumb. They've essentially released a ticking time bomb into society

[anushkagupta]

Those 2 detectives at the end of the episode deserve hell

[Scallycowell]

This episode was by far the most cruel, dare I say mean-spirited of the series. Certainly a hard watch.

[kiroalveranga]

Am I the only person who is scared that this show "black mirror" is basically giving humanity ideas😂

[RR-irss]

Beth is one of the most unlikeable characters I have ever seen.

[parthur]

what i dont get is, if your blocked by society, how do you buy food? are all characters on movies and shows blocked too? maybe im just too high..

[Paradox]

I just realized. They tortured the Joe cookie for 5 years in isolation. Wouldn't that be a confession under duress?

[ozywozyroby]

I'm surprised by the fact that you didnt mention the fact that the girl from this episode sang the same song as Abi from s1e2.

[JakeTakesTheCakes]

John Hamm's character got arrested for recording A LOT of people having sex without their knowledge (the partners, not the people with the contacts), streaming it to a bunch of people, and witnessing a murder without reporting it. Cutting off the stream doesn't mean he didn't know it was happening. That's the equivalent of just closing your eyes and saying "See? Not a witness".

[Pining_for_the_fjords]

The idea of blocking somebody as a form of criminal punishment is a terrible idea, one of the worst 'futuristic' ideas I've seen. I posted about this on IMDB too. It would only make people more angry, more frustrated and more prone to violence. Plus if they can no longer work, they're either going to be a burden on the state in caring for them financially, just like prison, or they'll be reduced to begging or stealing, which I don't think the criminal justice system would want either.

It would also reduce any sense of empathy the person had for others, as he'd literally only see people as a faceless anonymous mass and not as individuals. And people can only see him as an outline, so if he did want to hurt somebody, they probably wouldn't know what his intentions are until it's too late.

[Madmongul]

This was by far one of the most disturbing episodes!

[MasterJakeStudios]

My favourite episode of Black Mirror, and this video only showed me that there was even more to unpack about it. Top job.

[bangitybangbabang]

Even if matt didn't broadcast the footage or blackmail with it, it's still super sketchy to record someone having sex without their knowlege.

[rachelewing]

Um... why is it bad? Maybe because these women didn't consent to being watched by the group. He's not just helping men get laid. He's sharing it with their little group. The live sex show against consent is not okay.

[SputnikCrisis]

In the season 3 finale, Hated In The Nation, a news headline reads that these cookies now are promised all human rights. So hopefully Joe was the only "human" who ever had to go thru that.

[chrisfarmer]

I am really shocked that you think no one was harmed by Matt's broadcasting of these sexual encounters. So a minimum of nine strangers watch a woman having sex who did not agree to be filmed, and you think no harm was done? Peeping Tom activities like putting hidden cameras in a bathroom are often classified as sex offenses. (even if only the perpetrator watches the video!) In the US, secretly recording sex can be a felony depending on the state.

Are you telling me if someone recorded you having sex without informing you, and "only" showed it to nine random people, that would be totally fine with you? It is a total invasion of privacy and certainly deserves to be a sex crime.

[mekaylanicolai]

i was more upset that she acted like he didn't have the right to be upset with her decison? i understand it's the womans decison but he is allowed to be angry and state his opinon... especially when he thought it was his

[Erribell]

How can you be "conflicted" on whether or not you're sympathetic to the cookies?

What kind of monster WOULDN'T be sympathetic to the cookies?!?!