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White Christmas
화이트 크리스마스
2011 · TV series · 69 min episodes · 1 season
Kim Yo Han is a psychiatrist who gets involved in a serial murder when his car broke down on Christmas Eve during a sudden storm and he is forced to take shelter at a private high school. Seven students and a teacher are also there over the winter break, but they are gradually murdered one by one as they receive letters from a killer who wants revenge for the death of his mother and sister.
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Black Mirror episodes White Christmas and Black Museum deal with this issue (my favorite picks from the Black Mirror).
Reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "White Christmas".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
The black mirror episode “white Christmas” has some negative reinforcement on an AI cloned from a human consciousness. The only way you don’t have instant absolute hatred for the trainer is because it’s Jon Hamm (also the reason why Don Draper is likeable at all)
There was a Black Mirror episode along these lines, where people could block you from seeing them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)?wprov=sfti1
> Banned accounts can continue to post, but their comments are killed by default. Why? Because otherwise they'd just create new accounts and pick up where they left off. Since new accounts are unbanned at first, there would be a time lag before we could catch those and ban them again. In the meantime, more abusive posts would get through.
I had no idea this is how bans work on HN and it is a pretty clever moderation strategy -- although it somewhat reminds me of a black mirror episode O_o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
Hehe, and again another Black Mirror episode comes to mind: The ending to White Christmas where the guy is literally "red flagged" in the eyes of everyone and a social paria for the rest of his life.
I've always fundamentally disagreed with the idea of being able to block individuals from seeing the things you broadcast to the world.
Imagine if TV or radio or newspapers could do this because they didn't like something you said or did.
This is touched on in the Black Mirror episode "White Christmas". It's just creepy and an abuse of technology.
If you want to communicate privately, then do so.
As you might expect, there's a Black Mirror episode not far from that (IIRC "White Christmas"). And several other works of literature.
Agreed. They leaned so heavily into the horror/thriller anthology genre that the techno-dystopian angle got lost completely (although I haven’t watched the streaming episode yet). None of the episodes felt imaginative like the early seasons did. It was just a season of British Horror Stories with one episode set in spaaaace and another one with a disco demon (what?!).
If they want to keep it going all they have to do is go back to some of their best episodes and write more stories set in those worlds.
What happened to lead to Metalhead? What’s a rich playboy’s life like in the universe of 15 million merits? Whats the prison industrial complex like in White Christmas? Whats crime like in White Bear? There’s so much content to mine!
I recommend watching Black Mirror episose 'White Christmas'. You decide if this is future worth living in.
Black Mirror tends to reuse a lot of tech themes across many episodes. The same theme is in the White Christmas[0] episode.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
This is eerily similar to the concept of a 'cookie' seen in the Black Mirror episode, White Christmas. (Spoiler Alert)
A cookie is a device "that is inserted under the clients head by the brain and kept there for a week, giving it time to accurately replicate the individuals consciousness. It is then removed and installed in a larger, egg shaped device which can be connected to a computer or tablet (to automate their smart house controls as if the house was knew their personal preferences moving from room to room.)"
This is eerily similar to the concept of a 'cookie' seen in the Black Mirror episode, White Christmas.
(Spoiler Alert)
A cookie is a device "that is inserted under the clients head by the brain and kept there for a week, giving it time to accurately replicate the individuals consciousness. It is then removed and installed in a larger, egg shaped device which can be connected to a computer or tablet."
Highly recommend this episode for those interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
I disagree with your use of guilt by association with Black Mirror.
There are both horrifying and also amazing technologies shown in that show. In terms of masking people in images, that would be the White Christmas episode.
The ability for excellent image segmentation was not the scary technology there, it was the ability for a government to control your vision and hearing at the neural level.
umm the muting part reminds me of the black mirror episode "white christmas". Hopefully it doesnt come to that
Honestly the only subtle episodes I can think of pre-season 3 are White Bear and White Christmas.
I'd love a discussion on why you (or others) think otherwise.
Sorry to comment again, but you mentioned "six home runs in a row" – there's also a Christmas special called "White Christmas" – if you haven't seen it already, is also one of the better episodes, starring the main guy from Mad Men (Jo(h?)n Hamm?)
I thought White Bear was going to be a mediocre episode until the end. Just watch it if you haven't seen it. It's unfortunate you can only watch it for the first time once.
But every episode is nearly perfect. 15 million merits is probably my favorite, but White Christmas is incredible too.
I've not read that. Personally i felt we're one step closer to the "cookies" in Charlie Brooker's "White Christmas" episode of Black Mirror.
From the article :
“Our test participant was impressed with how much M could do, but was sometimes disappointed at how long it took,” UserTesting’s report reads. “He concluded that it would be very useful if he could set it to perform a non-urgent tasks for him while he worked on other things.”
That made me shudder. One person tutting at the poor performance of "it". It seems plausible that robot-powered tasks would complete rapidly, and humans power the slower processes.
So the participant didn't know it was human-powered. If anything, that makes things worse.
Also, Greg Egan. Much of his stuff is far-out hard SF, but many of the short stories are near-future stuff that could easily be a Black Mirror episode. The 'cookie' in White Christmas is very similar to the 'ndoli jewel' of several of Egan's stories.