Black Mirror: White Christmas (2014)

You won't be disappointed!

the audience applauded

Absolutely the worst movie.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Ok, since this epiosde is rated so high my expectations were also high - and I was dissapointed. Story with boy trying to flirt was interesting, nice plot twist. The whole cookie thing - scary, not really reasonable. Why can't they just use some intelligent robot to do this? Come on, it is not so hard to set up certain options and make it do regular stuff like a toast. Really? You need a special copy of consciousness to do this? Phones can do most of that these days, like waking you up with the music you like and making a plan for a day... Stupid idea. And it is legal? Seriously? You could at least make it illegal there, would make more sense. But there goes anther completely unreasonable option. You can block anyone you want and ruin their life just like that. And they can't even do anything about it. So I will block you because I don't like the way you look. I will block my teacher when I don't want to answer. I will block my neighbour because I don't like him, so I can listen to music really loud. Why not? A woman blocked a guy over nothing and left with their assumed child. He couldn't even go to court to report that he is the father and that he wants to have contact with his child. No rights man, because you are blocked. She blocked you and the child has you blocked too because she did. So I don't care about my husband anymore, I want to be with someone else, bye bye, he is blocked and the children have him blocked too. I don't care if they want it or not. Wow. The society really agreed to this? Really? The court doesn't care that you want to see your child? No cases? This idea was good but exxagerated. Nice concept that went terribly wrong and didn't make sense..

Thanks to the smooth, handsome presence of Jon Hamm this is an eminently watchable episode. However, Hamm brings across some of the creepiness of his Don Draper character.Stuck in an outpost with a "colleague", named Joe, the Hamm character (named Matt) starts telling how he ended up in the allegedly sh**y job, far removed from society. As a sidelines from his main job, Matt used to run a sort of dating service, giving real-time advice to insecure men on how to hook up with girls. Unethically, Matt shared these experiences live, with his previous clients. Voyeurism turns into Matt's demise, when one of his clients hooks up with the wrong girl. Then Matt starts talking about his main job and from this moment it is clear where the episode is heading. Matt's job is actually convincing his "colleague" Joe to open up about his past and since Matt is so smooth you can bet he will succeed.The story takes place during the Christmas period and the festive atmosphere adds more creepines to the unfolding tale. Do not expect a happy ending (sorry Matt, not even for you, since you don't deserve it)

I get that the series is a constant commentary on today's social networking and where it might lead us, but blocking everyone for a sex offender makes it immpossible for him to live. Also punishing a mental clone for 24860000 years in solitude is plain meaningless and stupid.

SPOILER: The British sci-fi anthology series consists of various tales about how technology will possibly create a more hellish world in the near future...and none of the episodes I have seen so far are as hellish a future as this one.The story is set in a room with two men. One is talkative and a bit jovial and the other, apparently, has been mostly silent the last five years. What follows are two stories by the more talkative man as he recounts how he abused technology. And, these stories, in turn, help the quiet man to finally start talking and he tells a very sad story about losing his wife/girlfriend (not sure which)...and she was pregnant! He desperately wants to see her and work things out...as well as see his child. But thanks to modern tech, he literally CAN'T see either as unfriending takes on a strange and sad finality.I really don't want to say too much about this one...it's not an easy episode to explain AND it would give away too much. Suffice to say it's exquisitely written, very moving as well as scary to imagine such an awful and hellish future...all perhaps possible one day thanks to technology. See this one!!