zackarydaniels What exactly is the point of punishing Potter's cookie? What happens to the actual guy now? It isn't explained.Also, by putting Matt on the sex offender "block" list and having him blocked by everyone, you are effectively giving him a death sentence. A death sentence for what? Not reporting a murder, or watching sex tapes? I mean it's messed up, but the police decide to sentence him to "YOU SHALL NEVER SPEAK TO ANYONE AGAIN EVER!!!" for what reason, exactly? It's stupid. This episode is stupid.Going back to the bit about Potter's cookie, I get that the idea is supposed to make you consider the morality whether or not it's okay to mistreat advanced AI, but that moral argument is overshadowed when you punish Matt, an actual person who did something much less serious with (essentially) death. While not punishing actual Potter at all. Cool, you're punishing a copy of his brain by making him listen to a song a few billion times but you're doing nothing to the actual guy while killing Matt for no reason.It's stupid. The ending completely takes away from the cool moments and concepts in the episode.

hnt_dnl WHITE CHRISTMAS can easily be called the best Black Mirror episode ever, and based on it's lofty 9+ rating, not surprising. A clinic in atmosphere, storytelling, writing , and acting, White Christmas incorporates various technologies already presented on the series and expands upon them to a point where it seems like the future has been laid out. Anchored by a brilliant, award-worthy performance by TV icon Jon Hamm (Emmy winner from Mad Men), this episode is captivating start to finish. White Christmas starts off in a remote cabin with 2 men seemingly imprisoned there, cut off from society. The 2 men are Matt (the aforementioned Hamm) and Joe (a superb Rafe Spall), who share each other's stories in an effort to break the boredom, all the while cooking up and feasting on a very British Christmas meal. Joe is actually British while Matt is an American living in England.We find out that Matt is a manipulative, smooth-talking closer, both in his day job and his extracurricular activities, while Joe is a more innocent, humane person who seems like he couldn't hurt a fly. Layers and layers are deftly revealed throughout the episode, all the while some nifty technology is showcased, including that Bluetooth-like eye technology first shown in The Entire History of You, as well as a much more advanced version of the digital cookies tech first shown in Be Right Back. But the director smartly mixes the technology into the story, and not allowing it to dominate. Instead the very real and true human characters shine.In addition to the 2 great leads Hamm and Spall (both of whom should have won awards), the supporting cast, including a now fairly famous Janet Montgomery, all make this splendid episode come to life. In particular, Oona Chaplin (as Greata) and Rasmus Hardiker (as Harry) stand out as they played big roles in 2 of the 3 stories. Interestingly, this was really a Special Christmas episode, but has been coined as the official last episode of Season 2 (even though it came out close to 2 years after the end of that season), then Season 3 came out two full years after this. I think the series didn't really garner worldwide attention until Netflix took over. A shame because I feel this masterpiece of an episode deserved serious acclaim and award recognition.

classicsoncall I was compelled to watch this episode of 'Black Mirror' a second time. There seems to be no doubt that the series has a fascination with dealing severe retribution and justice for crimes against humanity. 'White Bear' was a good story, but this one was brilliant in it's execution, weaving it's way through three interconnecting stories with Smartelligence agent Matthew (Jon Hamm) guiding us along. Each of those individual stories stand well on their own, but the way things are brought around to their ultimate conclusion is shocking in it's cycle of unending repetition. Watching the series in order, this one is so far the best that 'Black Mirror' has to offer, but I wouldn't be surprised if writer Charlie Brooker tops even himself in a later episode. The question is, where else can you go from here?

Alexander Perkov The first and third parts are funny due to the application of the reception of misunderstanding. The second part is more gloomy. And in it we get acquainted with the technology to which a reasonable question arises. Why is the copy of consciousness in confusion if the original knows about the process of copying her consciousness?