If you’re reading this, you managed to survive 2014 with your life and sanity mostly intact. Raise a glass for yourself, because, my God, what a horrible year this was. And raise a glass for “White Christmas,” the stunning year-end special of Charlie Brooker’s acclaimed Black Mirror: it plays like a worst-of-2014 retrospective, brutally and compellingly addressing the cancers that ate away at the world this year. It’s all right here in this 83-minute episode: police brutality, men’s rights activism, torture, pro-life fundamentalism, harassment of women, income inequality, even leaked nudes. All it’s missing is an Ebola outbreak. Previous installments of the British sci-fi anthology series (which, as of last month, you can legally stream in the U.S.) tackled one or two discontents of modernity at a time, but “White Christmas” is a delightfully overstuffed turducken of humanity at its worst. Let’s address...
- 12/26/2014
- by Abraham Riesman
- Vulture
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