![]() Or it allows you to do things like completely block a person in real life. It allows you to see through the eyes of another person, as Hamm does in his side-job coaching losers how to pick up women through direct, Hitch-like intervention. There’s z-eyes, the eye-replacement tech that seems like a more advanced version of what we saw in The Entire History of You. Black Mirror usually focuses on one piece of technology per episode, but the Christmas special has at least two stuffed in. You may say “oh, he’s from Downton,” or “she’s from Game of Thrones” from time to time (I think there were two Thrones actresses in the Christmas special), but Hamm is a different level of recognizable for Mad Men fans.Īnd yet, it totally works, and Hamm does a great job with the material, which is broken up into three distinct parts throughout the course of the episode. It’s a little distracting seeing Hamm at first, as part of the appeal of Black Mirror is how relatively unrecognizable the cast is. It’s also the first time the show has had an American actor/character in a lead role. Though Black Mirror has poached familiar faces over the years for its ensemble casts, the Christmas Special is the first to pull someone really, truly recognizable for its main lead, Mad Men’s Jon Hamm. Series three of Black Mirror is in fact coming, but they wanted to participated in another British tradition in the meantime, the extended Christmas Special, something we’ve seen from The Office to Doctor Who to Downton Abbey over the years. ![]() It’s probably worth it (like the similarly formatted Sherlock), but the waiting and scarcity of episodes can be exhausting. Channel 4 debuted their much-anticipated Christmas-themed Black Mirror special this week, and it was very much worth the wait.īlack Mirror exists as one of those frustrating British show that trades short, three-episode seasons with yawning gulfs in between them for high quality offerings.
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