Black Mirror series 7 episode 4: Plaything review
An eccentric loner tells tales about 90s videogame journalism in a grungy procedural LSD trip. Here’s our Black Mirror: Plaything review.
The fourth episode of Black Mirror’s seventh season, Plaything, starts with a spot of thievery. Peter Capaldi’s Cameron – sporting stringy, elbow-length hair immediately marking him out as a wrong ‘un – tries to steal a bottle of wine from an off-license. Tsk tsk.
Thankfully for the forces of law and order, he’s not very good at it. When police arrive and detain him under “the Bio Identity Act 2029”, we learn he has no previous convictions. We also learn he’s wanted for a murder in 1994. Wrong ‘un indeed.
On arrival for questioning in the local police station, Cameron regales the rozzers with a story from his time as a games journalist in the early nineties, and the mysterious not-quite-a-game he was once tasked with reviewing…
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The fourth episode of Black Mirror’s seventh season, Plaything, starts with a spot of thievery. Peter Capaldi’s Cameron – sporting stringy, elbow-length hair immediately marking him out as a wrong ‘un – tries to steal a bottle of wine from an off-license. Tsk tsk.
Thankfully for the forces of law and order, he’s not very good at it. When police arrive and detain him under “the Bio Identity Act 2029”, we learn he has no previous convictions. We also learn he’s wanted for a murder in 1994. Wrong ‘un indeed.
On arrival for questioning in the local police station, Cameron regales the rozzers with a story from his time as a games journalist in the early nineties, and the mysterious not-quite-a-game he was once tasked with reviewing…
Continuing...
- 4/10/2025
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
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