Black Mirror Season 4 Hang the Dj Review
*Notation: this review contains spoilers*
The last time Black Mirror explored the dating game information technology was with Jon Hamm's relationship coach schooling a nervy virgin into chatting someone upward at a gatecrashed Christmas political party. That 1 ended in tragedy (the daughter in question invites the male child dorsum to her place to poison him, which is never skillful), merely 'Hang the DJ' is an entirely different kettle of Brooker.
In fact, it's one of the few Black Mirror outings that actually wants to leave you with a big, broad smile.
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Hamm's dating guru probably would have advised Frank against making and then many shitting comments on his kickoff date, but the poo bantz seems to piece of work with Amy. Right from the off, in that location'south a pleasing naturalness nearly Frank and Amy's rapport, and it's only when their System monitors come up out that it becomes clear we're in the "2-minutes-into-the-future" world of 'Nosedive' or 'Be Right Dorsum'.
But at that place's something that doesn't feel right, something about this reality that's a bit blurred around the edges. Practise these people have jobs? Does everyone on Earth have to take part in this dating program? What happens if they ignore the countdown? What's across "the wall"?
'Hang the DJ' is so deft at charming united states of america, that, for most of its running time, you most forget about those questions. An early hint at this episode'southward outcome comes when Frank is espousing his theory about the System to Amy: that if the System 'slurps upwards' all of your memories and reactions, does it accept thoughts? "Okay," she says, "then now you're gonna say, what if nosotros're stuck in a simulation?"
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Information technology'due south the first inkling we become, 31 minutes in, that all this could be a programmed reality. But Frank and Amy feel so admittedly real, so indefatigably man and 3-dimensional, that you quickly brush off that thought. Of class, they are stuck in a simulation, for the 1,000th fourth dimension, apparently, and about to, for the 998th time, rebel confronting the System.
Then the twist is that we've been watching Frank and Amy acting out a dating-app simulation, before, it seems, the real Frank and Amy accept fifty-fifty met. Equally twist endings go, the VR rug-pull has become a well-worn sci-fi thought over the past two decades, but Brooker imbues the residual of the episode with so many groovy lines, and so many absorbing, provocative ideas about the nature of relationships, that it'southward easy to forgive him this rare lapse into cliche.
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Not just is 'Hang the DJ' the warmest episode of the flavor, information technology'due south also the funniest. The contrasting sex scenes betwixt Amy and her buffed-up but wearisome beau and Frank and his sour-faced bellyache girlfriend ("You lot're all in-out, in-out similar you're trying to shove a door back into a filing cabinet – information technology's borin'!") show Brooker at his comic all-time, equally does the scene where we see Frank waxing lyrical almost Amy to another date, whose caput all of a sudden appears, bobbing upwards and down over his lap.
A hearty dorsum-slap to Georgina Campbell (Broadchurch) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) for making Amy and Frank and so incredibly human and likeable, and to manager Tim Van Patten for helping to sculpt an on-screen globe that feels powerfully existent, but also intriguingly off-centre.
Information technology may be the slightest tale in this new season, but at that place's still much to savour in this satisfyingly subverted and deliciously twisted rom-com. And information technology's an unusually pleasant feeling to call back that, somewhere out in that location, there are 1,000 or so versions of Frank and Amy hopefully living happily e'er subsequently.
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