Directed by Toby Haynes ( Doctor Who) and scripted by William Bridges and series creator Charlie Brooker, it tells the tale of Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), a gifted programmer and CTO of Callister Inc., a company he co-founded with James Walton (Jimmi Simpson) that’s most famous for the open-world multiplayer online game Infinity, which inserts users into a simulation where they control a spaceship.ĭespite his status as the co-founder of Callister and chief architect of Infinity, Daly-rotund, balding, and bespectacled-is routinely mocked by his colleagues, who see him as a leering creep, and looked down upon by James, who treats him like a low-level employee. Which brings us to “USS Callister.” The episode aired back in December 2017, serving as the fourth season premiere of Netflix’s Black Mirror. He must exit the simulation for eight hours a day (while he’s at his “job” as a technical engineer for the Victory Project) to do some unspecified real-life labor in order to compensate for living his best fantasy-life, and it’s during his absence that Alice investigates the Victory Project headquarters and plots her escape. He has morphed into a dashing, confusingly accented Brit who still cannot act. In this 1950s-set simulation, gone are Jack’s unfortunate facial hair and glasses. The film’s most unintentionally-funny moment is Styles’ incel reveal, because really… Harry Styles as an incel?!įrank doesn’t just preach about a toxically masculine dreamscape where women are the subservient housewives and men the alpha breadwinners, but has created a virtual simulation-the Victory Project-that all the men in the town have signed up for, and few of the women (Alice was sedated and hooked up to it Bunny, another housewife played by Wilde, chose to be transported there in order to reunite with her dead children). Instead of looking for jobs or being grateful that he somehow landed a beautiful doctor (what she sees in this sad sack is a mystery), Jack spends his days glued to YouTube, consuming videos by Frank, a prominent men’s rights activist in the Jordan Peterson mold. You see, in the present-day, Jack is an unemployed, bespectacled loser with patchy facial hair who feels emasculated and overlooked by his wife Alice, an ER surgeon dedicated to her life-saving work. When Alice-who is haunted by visions of spooky ballerinas-witnesses Margaret (KiKi Layne), one of the housewives, become detached and then later slit her own throat, and then sees an airplane mysteriously crash over the desert mountains, she starts to question her existence and embarks on a mission to find out what exactly the Victory Project is. Lording over paradise is Frank (Chris Pine), the sexy, charismatic founder of the Victory Project whose employees worship the ground he walks on. While Jack is off in the desert working on the top-secret “Victory Project” that employs all the townsmen, Alice spends her days shopping and gabbing with the fellow housewives, drinking cocktails by the pool, tidying up the house, and marinating meats so they’re nice and ready for when hubby comes home. ![]() ![]() It’s the 1950s in Victory, California, a sunny, pastel-hued oasis with palm tree-lined streets that resembles Palm Springs. ![]() But now that the film is out, we must discuss its absurd, logic-defying twist ending, which bears striking similarities to “USS Callister,” one of the finest episodes of Netflix’s sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror.Īlice (Pugh) and Jack Chambers (Styles) look like a picture-perfect couple. You’ve surely read the flurry of negative reviews highlighting Harry Styles’ acting ability (or lack thereof), or the tabloid gossip about rumored on-set drama between director Olivia Wilde and star Florence “Miss Flo” Pugh, or seen the leaked video by “fired” actor Shia LaBeouf, or parsed the “SpitGate” video like the Zapruder film. The discourse surrounding the psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling has been more inescapable than Julia Fox in a revealing outfit.
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