![]() ![]() Brain Uploading: The cookie, a perfect digital copy of a person's mind, is "born" when excised from what it knows to be its own body.Binge Montage: Joe and Bethany are introduced in this fashion.Beard of Sorrow: Joe is shown to be sporting one in his prison cell.He specifically practises one of these as a conversation entry point, where the conman pretends that there was a shirtless man riding a horse outside dressed as Cupid. Bavarian Fire Drill: Low-key version where Matt coaches men on crashing corporate holiday parties by pretending they belong there.Her cheating on Joe with Tim, blocking Joe after getting drunk while pregnant with the child neither man knew about, wanting to initially abort the child without taking Joe's side into consideration then changing her mind and keeping her child after she blocked Joe and keeping Joe estranged from the child he suspected was his, but really wasn't, left few mourning her death (besides Joe himself and presumably her father) in a train crash. A less ambiguous case is with Bethany. ![]() ![]() In true Black Mirror fashion, this trope is deconstructed with Matt and Joe, both of whom did terrible things, but the sheer horror of what they'll ultimately go through really makes you wonder just how deserved those punishments they receive are, removing any sense of schadenfreude.Artificial Human: A cookie can be given a digital body in a digital room and an interface.Matt ends up being blocked by humanity due to being on the register, meaning he won't be able to interact with anyone for what may be the rest of his life.Cheaper than programming a new one from scratch. Cookies that are driven to complete insanity are just sold to video game companies as cannon fodder AI.The final shot of the program is of Joe's cookie screaming. As vengeance for the real Joe's crimes, a police officer leaves the console on overnight and speeds up time on it so that Joe's cookie will live 1000 years for every minute that passes in the real world, with Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" playing on an endless loop in the background (with the revelation that any attempt at stopping the song will simply raise the volume) and the frozen dead body of Bethany's daughter visible from the cottage window. Was he in a Heroic BSoD to the point where he didn't let himself understand what he'd done? Or did he not care what happened to her, knowing she wasn't his daughter? Is it because they are enforced very heavily for small infractions? Or is it only possible because she's not his daughter, so he has no right to see her? What does the law look like in this version of Black Mirror that Bethany can get a restraining order against Joe for her and her daughter? Is it because he's an Unreliable Narrator and he was more aggressive with her than was shown? Is it because he technically committed a criminal offence - which was what caused Matt to be blocked from his daughter, too.with the time slowed down so that just listening to it over Christmas break in the real world felt like over two million years in his time. Alternate Personality Punishment: There are things called "Cookies" where people basically make tiny clones of themselves, with their entire memory and personality, to work as a personal assistant who live in tiny little environments that can be controlled by the one using them one Cookie was interrogated by the police over the actual person committing murder, and after confessing (to a crime they didn't commit personally, being the clone) they were punished with listening to "Christmas Everyday" on constant repeat.While in theory, he gets what he wants - getting to be alone with a gorgeous, strange woman at an office Christmas party - she saw him talking to Matt and figured he could hear voices, too, so she committed a murder-suicide with him to "spare" him living as she had. The fact that Matt gives Harry any form of advice actually leads to a horrible, unexpected situation.Harry's advice for Jennifer to go through with her transition plans backfires terribly.Actor Allusion: Joe guesses that Matt's previous job was a marketing director, which was (roughly) Jon Hamm's character's job on Mad Men."White Christmas" contains examples of the following: ![]()
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