Black Mirror:
Season:     2     / Episode:     4    
White Christmas

La gazza ladra (Italian pronunciation: [la 'gaddza 'la?dra], The Thieving Magpie) is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on La pie voleuse by Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.

Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The show centers on Don Draper, creative director at Sterling Cooper and a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, as well as those in his life in and out of the office. It also depicts the changing social mores of 1960s America. * 2016 Golden Globe Winner - Jon Hamm - Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series - Drama

In a future where everyone but the social elite lives underground and must cycle on exercise bikes in order to earn a currency called "Merit" and to power their surroundings, Bingham "Bing" Madsen (Daniel Kaluuya) uses his entire fortune to get the object of his affections, Abi (Jessica Brown Findlay), an audition on a reality talent show. Abi auditions as a singer but is instead offered a job as a porn actress which she accepts to escape the extreme drudgery. Distraught by this Bing exercises hard to earn his own audition. He threatens to commit suicide on screen while delivering an impassioned speech on the inauthenticity of their entire society. Ironically, he is offered a job to twice weekly deliver a similar speech which he accepts and escapes the drudgery.

Princess Susannah (Lydia Wilson) is kidnapped and the ransom demand is that Prime Minister Michael Callow (Rory Kinnear) must have sexual intercourse with a pig on live national television. Attempts to substitute a porn actor and digitally replace the actor's face with the PM's are inadvertently disclosed on social media. The PM, and his wife, are reluctant for him to do it but following this revelation support drops and his aide, who organised the attempted substitution without the PM's knowledge, says his physical safety is no longer guaranteed. He completes the act. Unknown to everyone the princess had been released half an hour earlier. Her kidnapper was an artist attempting to make a piece of performance art who committed suicide after releasing her. A year later news reports show the PM is at an all time high in popularity but his wife who supports him publicly won't talk to him in private.

Jamie Salter (Daniel Rigby), a failed comedian who has found unwanted success by performing the voice and movements (via performance capture) of a blue cartoon bear named Waldo, reluctantly agrees to allow Waldo to stand in an upcoming by-election. He meets the Labour party candidate who is a new to politics and while expecting to lose, the seat is a Tory electorate, is using it as a stepping stone for publicity. The pair sleep together but afterwards she is advised by her campaign manager not to associate with him which upsets Jamie. Waldo becomes unexpectedly popular and during a televised debate Jamie accuses the Tory candidate of being a fraud, not even knowing that his own friend, the former MP who was arrested for paedophilia, was a "kiddy-fiddler" but saying the Labour candidate was even worse and revealing publicly she expected to lose and why. Waldo places second in the by-election, the Tory winning, and the Labour candidate, who genuinely cared for Jamie, says she was going to call him as soon as the election was over. Jaded over the experience and arguing with his boss who owns the character rights, Jamie quits. He ends up living on the streets in a foreign country, assaulted by police officers when he attacks an interactive advertising screen that shows how Waldo has become a huge global phenomenon that would have made him rich.

When Victoria Skillane (Lenora Crichlow) wakes up in a chair to find she can't recall anything about her life and a strange signal on her tv screen though she starts having flashbacks about her daughter Jemimah. There are very few people around and all of them are incommunicative, only recording her with their camera-phones. However, she is soon shot at by a man wearing a balaclava. He ignores the voyeurs while pursuing her. She meets a man and a woman who will talk to her. This man is soon killed by the shotgun man. The woman explains that the signal has made most people into voyeurs, some are unaffected and with a lack of law some of these hunt others for their own amusement. The woman and Victoria escape two more attackers, both oddly dressed and wearing masks, and are rescued by another man with a van. Victoria has flashbacks that this man has a safe area in the woods and he says she is right. He explains that the signal can't reach there. Once there he reveals himself as the shotgun man and takes the two women to a clearing filled with his earlier victims but he is shot dead by the unnamed woman. The two women escape in his van and the woman reveals her plan to destroy the White Bear television repeater station as other groups have destroyed other transmitters around Britain. Victoria says that White Bear is a bad place but she is taken there anyway. In the station the two attackers arrive and the woman is killed. Victoria takes her attacker's shotgun and shoots him but all that comes out is confetti. Victoria is over powered and strapped to a chair as the repeater station's internal walls swivel open to the applause of a studio audience. The shotgun man reveals himself as host, the other attackers and victims are actors and the voyeurs are audience members instructed not to talk. Victoria and her husband kidnapped and killed a girl called Jemimah. When Jemimah's white bear cuddly toy was found it became the symbol of the crime. Victoria recorded the murder on her camera-phone and claimed she was forced by her husband. Her husband committed suicide before trial, escaping justice according to public, and the White Bear Correction Facility was created where every day Victoria's memory is wiped and she goes through the same terrifying experience.