Matt pulls the plug, wiping and destroying everything in his computer room and heading downstairs to set it all afire when Sophie the Giraffe outs his movements and wakes up his wife Claire (Grainne Kennan) who takes a “dim view.” She’s murdering him and everyone is watching but nobody knows what to do. She feeds him a drink of “f*ck them” while explaining that she stopped taking those pills “they” gave her and Harry’s encouragement to just do it and she’s murdering him. She whispers “I can’t f*cking wait” in his ear and the watchers start rubbing their “hands” together. Too late! She’s back with the drinks and she needs him on the bed. She’s too real and he doesn’t want 9 strangers watching him get his swerve on with a girl he really likes. Harry is almost frantic in his need to disconnect from the group, this is too real. They get back to her place, she’s raring to go, directing him to the bedroom as she gets drinks. Jennifer finds Harry chatting out loud in an agitated fashion, this pushes it over the edge for her and she invites him back to her place.Įveryone but Harry is very excited about this. He feels like he’s cheating, he would have never had the courage to talk to her without Matt’s smarmy help. She heads to the bathroom, and Harry has a moment of panic. He encourages her to cross that bridge, it’s just about changing states! The shock of the new is all she’s afraid of, and all those voices coming telling her to do it or not do it. She’s been contemplating the change forever, but now is time to make the move. This is her third Christmas party, but also her last. We’re with Harry and Jennifer again, in a quiet corner chatting. She’s not on them any more, yay says Matt and Harry!īack in the frozen hinterland, Matt is making potatoes in a way I have to try (boiling then roasting? Interesting!) but Potter’s staring at the clock. A couple of strange notes, Jennifer mentions she was only able to enjoy the last Christmas party because she was on drugs, which sounds like a joke, but she doesn’t seem the joking type. Back to the story, Harry’s working a new angle as a cynical outsider as suggested by Matt and it’s going well. So not only is Matt watching every single one of Harry’s moves, so are 8 other guys, Pie Ape, Fappuccino, I_AM_WALDO, and so on and so forth. It didn’t work on Jennifer anyway, she was uninterested being noticed or drawing Harry’s eye, she wandered off on her own, an attractive outsider. Side note: this is the exact problem with PUAs why would Harry not talk to the woman Harry actually is interested in? Why try to use psychology to manipulate another person into liking you? Why not treat her as a person instead of a target? You don’t even know if you like her as a person, you’ve just seen her across the room and decided she must be manipulated into your pants and that makes zero sense to me! RANT OVER
Harry wangles his way into a conversation with Matt’s help, fending off Dawson (Ian Keir Attard) to focus on Amy (Verity Marshall) because he likes Jennifer (Natalie Tena from Game of Thrones!!! Oh she was excellent). Matt’s niche is helping young men lacking confidence crash Christmas parties to pick up women. That’s a Black Mirror trademark, here they are called ZedEyes and will involve all kinds of important plot points later on. (Rasmus Hardiker) through an earpiece while looking through his eyes.
You see, Matt was a guru for money, but decidedly NOT a spiritual guru.Ī Pick Up Artist type, it seems, and we get to see him coach Harry S. Speaking of: it was -32 degrees Celsius last night, on Christmas even! Come on!ĪNYWAY, Potter flips it around why is Matt there? Well. Matt asks what he did to get stuck out there? Potter is leery of Matt, although they’ve apparently worked together for five years in the frozen wasteland. We open with a tired looking Potter (Rafe Spall) waking up and touching a picture of a woman before heading out into the kitchen where a cheerful Matt (Jon Hamm) is making lots of food and cooking Christmas dinner. Perhaps fate lent a hand, as I found White Christmas on Christmas Day 2017 and some of the other parts…were far too relatable. I am a big, big fan of the Hammaconda and I would have watched this in a heartbeat.
I can’t believe I missed this episode of Black Mirror for two reasons: firstly because I didn’t start getting snotty about recapping only episodes I could stand until the third season but mostly because it has Jon Hamm in it.
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