White Christmas story
"White Christmas" is a 2014 Christmas special episode of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and directed by Carl Tibbetts, and first aired on Channel 4 on 16 December 2014.[1] The only television special of the series, it was also the last episode to be aired on Channel 4, as the series would move to Netflix for its third series. Directed by: Carl Tibbetts. Story by: Charlie Brooker.
20 total · 3 choice · 4 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI rights | choice | Is it ethical for people to use their digital clone for menial work? And to punish the Joe digital clone in his solitary confinement for eons? |
| digital clone of a person | choice | Greta underwent a surgery that resulted in the creation of a digital clone of her stored within an egg-shaped object. |
| speculative virtual reality | choice | Joe's digital clone was placed inside a simulated reality to get it to confess to a murder. The Greta digital clone was digitally embodied in a digital world. |
| augmented reality | major | The story was set in a world where people had augmented reality implants that allows them to "block" people in real life, by turning them into colorless silhouettes that sounded like distorted streams of noise. |
| coping with being tortured | major | The digital clones were tortured by being placed in limbo for extreme lengths of time. |
| speculative punishment | major | Joe's digital clone was punished by being left in a digital limbo for a virtual eternity. |
| what if I killed someone by accident | major | Joe accidentally killed his former father-in-law and his digital clone was being interrogated by the police. |
| AI assistant | minor | Greta made a digital clone of herself for the purpose of running her house. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | minor | Joe and Beth. |
| Christmas traditions | minor | Joe and Matt shared a meal and a drink on Christmas Day in a simple cabin that was modestly adorned with decorations appropriate to the occasion. |