2020… even the creators of Black Mirror couldn’t make this year up but they do have something to add!
Global (17 December 2020) – We all joked that Black Mirror had a hand in 2020… and now the show will be ending off the year with a Netflix special called “Death to 2020”.
Death to 2020 – an upcoming Netflix Original releasing on the 27th of December 2020 – has been explained as a comedy TV-special created by Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker. The special will shed a dark comedic light on the horrendous year that has been 2020. We’re expecting Death to 2020 to be one of the most-watched Originals in December.
Hugh Grant revealed the project’s existence in an interview with New York Magazine in late November 2020, saying Brooker had written a mockumentary about the year 2020, which was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic and described by some as a real-life version of a Black Mirror episode. Brooker said he would play the role of a historian who’s being interviewed about the year.
So far Hugh Grant, Samuel L. Jackson, Lisa Kudrow, Leslie Jones, Joe Keery, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Cristin Milioti, Diane Morgan and Samson Kayo have been confirmed to be part of the project.
In order to reflect on 2020 with a bit of sardonic wisdom while also bidding it adieu, “Black Mirror’s” Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones created a special one-off mockumentary,
“Really what this is is a lot of character comedy and spoofing the documentary form that you’d see on Netflix. Hopefully, that left us enough room for goofy jokes and surreal gags, as well as some angry commentary from time to time and a bit of gallows humour. But generally, we just wanted to do something where people would find a relief,” Brooker says.
Rather than be a complete year-end wrap-up, “Death to 2020” focuses on tentpole events that had an “international view,” Brooker explains, from the Black Lives Matter movement to the U.S. election and of course the coronavirus pandemic, with smaller mentions of topics such as “Megxit” and #OscarsSoWhite thrown in.
“Because these stories had such an impact, they’re universal,” Brooker says. “Obviously the pandemic is a huge global story, so in a way, there is a commonality of experience between the nations — we’ve been subject to the same forces and have the same criticisms, the same anxieties. The Black Lives Matter movement became a huge international story and the U.S. election is always in some ways more glamorous to British people than our own election; we love to comment on it and view it more because we’re slightly removed, even though it has a massive impact on our lives.”
Watch the teaser trailer below:
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