Episode

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.

Air date:

December 16, 2014

Writer:

Charlie Brooker

Director:

Carl Tibbetts

Air date:

Writer:

Director:

December 16, 2014

Charlie Brooker

Carl Tibbetts

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 ...

Trivia

‍The song that Beth sings at karaoke is the same song that Abi Kahn sings in the "Fifteen Million Merits" episode. The song is "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)", recorded by Irma Thomas in 1964.
When Joe is flipping through channels on the television, the first program is the talent competition show "Hot Shot" from the episode entitled "Fifteen Million Merits".
The pregnancy test Potter removes from the trash bin is the same model used by Martha in the first episode of this season entitled, "Be Right Back".
One of the people watching Harry's attempt to pick up Jennifer had the username 'I_AM_WALDO'. Waldo was the main character in the previous episode of Black Mirror.
The first guess Potter (Rafe Spall) makes about Matt's (Jon Hamm) occupation is a marketing person. This is a reference to Jon Hamm's character in Mad Men, who works at an advertising agency.
When Potter walks over to the mirror at the start he turns the light on and walks out of the room, meaning that 'The lights are on, but nobody is home' referring to the end of the episode.
When Matt is telling about his wife blocking him, the technology is very similar to the technology being used in the episode The Entire History of You from season 1.
Oona Chaplin and Natalia Tena played the roles of Talisa and Osha respectively in Game of Thrones (2011).
One of the date watcher's usernames is PIE APE. This was an insult for the yellow suits from Season 1, Episode 2, "15 Million Merits."
Jon Hamm and Rafe Spall share the same birthday, March 10th.