Death to 2020 : Black Mirror Creators on Making Topical Comedy Amid the Pandemic
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Lisa Kudrow, Tracey Ullman and Samuel L. Jackson in Netflix s Death to 2020
Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones tackle the nonsense and chaos and horribleness of 2020 with a star-studded mockumentary filmed under pandemic-era protocols. We hope to give people a sort of cathartic exorcism of the year that was 2020, Jones tells The Hollywood Reporter. People definitely need a relief, says Annabel Jones, summing up 2020.
Speaking virtually alongside Charlie Brooker, the
Black Mirror creators tell
The Hollywood Reporter that this year wasn t a good fit for another potentially harrowing season of their Emmy-winning anthology series. Instead, the producing partners and Netflix collaborators decided to tackle the nonsense and chaos and horribleness that was 2020 with comedy.