Mazey Day story
In 2006, the paparazza Bo takes photos of a male celebrity's affair with a man that lead to his suicide. She decides to quit the industry. Meanwhile, the actor Mazey Day quits filming in the Czech Republic after a hit and run; $30,000 is offered for the first photographs of her. Bo tracks Mazey down and pursues her to a New Age rehab. She and three other paparazzi find Mazey tied up and take pictures. Bo releases her and Mazey transforms into a werewolf. The werewolf kills two paparazzi as Bo and the paparazzo Hector flee to a nearby diner. Bo fails to convince a police officer of the situation's urgency. The werewolf kills all those in the diner except Bo, who manages to shoot her. Mazey returns to human form, bloodied, and Bo hands her a gun. With Hector's camera, Bo prepares to take a photograph with Mazey holding the gun to her head. A gunshot is heard. Directed by: Uta Briesewitz. Story by: Charlie Brooker.
16 total · 2 choice · 5 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| compromising one's ethical principles for personal advantage | choice | A recurring point of the story was that paparazzi's profit from harassing famous people, sometimes to the point of death (like Princess Dianna). Bo was perpetually struggling with the ethics of the profession. Yet after living in poverty for a while she clearly turned to the dark side: In the end she knowingly handed Mazey Day a gun and got her camera ready to photograph Mazey's impending suicide. The paparazzi Bo was snapping photos of celebrities in private settings. At the opening of the story, she scored some photos of the celebrity Justin Camley leaving a motel room together with a "male buddy". Justin took his own life after the scandalous photos were published. |
| werewolf | choice | Mazey turned out to be a werewolf to the great surprise of the paparazzi who were tracking her down. |
| compromising one's ethical principles vs. great need | major | Bo was tempted to return to her old paparazzi job by the prospect of score $30,000 for the first shots of Mazey Day. Bo had become disillusioned about being a paparazzi after one of her subjects committed suicide because of the scandalous nature of the photos she took of him. |
| friendship | major | Bo investigated Mazey Day together with her paparazzi "friends". There was an illustration that their friendship was just skin-deep when they quickly abandoned one another while running from the beast and, especially, when one of them grabbed the camera from another of them rather than try and pull him lose from the fence where his fat behind was at the mercy of said monster. |
| human vs. monster | major | The paparazzi and diner people were attacked and many torn to shreds by a werewolf. |
| invasion of privacy | major | The paparazzi Bo was snapping photos of celebrities in private settings. At the opening of the story, she scored some photos of the celebrity Justin Camley leaving a motel room together with a "male buddy". Justin took his own life after the scandalous photos were published. The main part of the story follows Bo and some fellow paparazzi as they track down Mazey Day, a celebrity who'd been living in seclusion ever since committing a hit-and-run in the Czech Republic. |
| overcoming an addiction | major | The viewer is led to believe that Mazey Day was sent to rehab to overcome a drug addiction. Alas it turned out she suffered from being a werewolf. |
| dangerous driving | minor | Mazey ran a man down while high on mushrooms. |
| law enforcement | minor | The police officer in the diner failed to handle the werewolf situation. |
| male homosexuality | minor | Justin Camley hanged himself after getting outed as a homosexual. |