{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/691c1661589629f7d6af88f6/6a697bf8982971a8e04a5a76?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Black Mirror (Part 3) : Is White Christmas Its Best Episode?","description":"<p>Retro Spectacles continues its Black Mirror deep dive with the 2014 special that closes the show’s original Channel 4 era. Built around three interconnected stories, White Christmas brings the ideas, technologies, and moral questions of the first two series together for one ambitious final nightmare before Black Mirror’s move to Netflix.</p><p><br></p><p>Jon Hamm and Rafe Spall play two men sharing Christmas in an isolated outpost, gradually revealing the events that brought them there. Their stories introduce dating assistance through Z-Eyes, digital copies known as cookies, and blocking technology capable of removing someone from another person’s world. Oona Chaplin, Natalia Tena, and Janet Montgomery round out a special that moves between dark comedy, relationship drama, psychological horror, and dystopian science fiction.</p><p><br></p><p>Mitcz and Teddy discuss pickup-artist culture, wearable surveillance, digital slavery, and the difference between code and a person. Plus, whether anyone in White Christmas receives proportionate justice, and why they both consider White Christmas a five-star Black Mirror episode. </p><p><br></p><p>Get your spectacles on and join us!</p>","author_name":"Retro Spectacles"}