White Christmas 

Three interconnected tales of technology run amok during the Christmas season are told by two men at a remote outpost in a frozen wilderness.

Director:

Carl Tibbetts

Writer:

Charlie Brooker

Stars:

Jon Hamm, Rafe Spall, Oona Chaplin

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Jon Hamm	...	Matt
Rafe Spall	...	Potter
Oona Chaplin	...	Greta
Natalia Tena	...	Jennifer
Janet Montgomery	...	Beth
Rasmus Hardiker	...	Harry
Dan Li	...	Tim
Ken Drury	...	Gordon
Zahra Ahmadi	...	Gita
Verity Marshall	...	Amy
Ian Attard	...	Dawson (as Ian Keir Attard)
Grainne Keenan	...	Claire (as Gráinne Keenan)
Robin Weaver	...	Holder
Simon Nock	...	Fenn
Diveen Henry	...	Fola

Storyline

Joe Potter wakes up on the Christmas Day and finds his talkative co-worker Matt Trent preparing the Christmas dinner. They have been working together for five years in a remote outpost in the middle of nowhere in the snow. Joe does not like to talk, but Matt decides to tell his story. Matt was helping the shy Harry to seduce the beautiful Jennifer in a party using the "Z-Eye" implanted in his eyes in an illegal procedure. Harry succeeds and they go to Jennifer's apartment but things go awry and they die. Matt delete the evidences of his participation but his wife blocks him and they become invisible and inaudible to each other. Then Matt explains that he really worked with a chip called Cookie, capable to make a digital copy of the user. Then he forced the copy to serve the real user through torture manipulating time to break any resistance from the copy. Joe decides to tell why he came to the outpost and he explains that he lived with Beth. One night, they have dinner with their ...

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Plot Keywords:

potato | dating coach | drinking poison | blocking | toaster | 

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Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 December 2014 (UK)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

73 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Joe is flipping through channels on the television, the first program is the talent competition show "Hot Shot" from the episode entitled Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits (2011).

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Goofs

When setting up the 'cookie', the bite out of the toast disappears and reappears.

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Quotes

Harry: Ultimately the only thing you're worried about is the transition from one state to another, and that can't hurt you because it's it's just a state change.

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Connections

References Black Mirror: The National Anthem (2011)

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Soundtracks

Black Is Black
Written by Michelle Grainger, Tony Hayes and Steve Wadey
Performed by Los Bravos

User Reviews

HORRIFYING

I could go on for hours concerning this episode.

But I will simply conclude it is a horrifying prediction of a future that hopefully will never be possible.