DEATH TO 2020
Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Black Mirror, the modern Twilight Zone/Outer Limits anthology series created by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, are behind this new special, which is a comedy deconstruction disguised as a documentary, replete with lots of news footage from the year 2020 that seem more farcical than anything writers could dream up. There are more than a dozen writers contributing to this Death to 2020 special, and Brooker, Jones and company manage to make it amusing and mind-blowing at the same time. And the guest cast, playing fictional but recognizable types and tropes, include Hugh Grant (pictured), Samuel L. Jackson, Lisa Kudrow, Cristin Milioti, and Leslie Jones – and those are just the funniest ones. Netflix didn’t make this show available for preview – perhaps there wasn’t time – but I saw it after Netflix dropped it this morning, and it’s fascinating. Laurence Fishburne narrates, and some of his droll lines are the most amusing, and/or frightening, of all.