Black Mirror: Black Museum
by Charlie Brooker; dir. Colm McCarthy (Netflix, 2017)
Black Museum follows the same formula as White Christmas, and explores similar technology (and horrific misuses thereof), artfully weaving its three parts into a denouement that sees Letitia Wright’s character transformed from passive consumer of story to active shaper. Confronting but cathartic!
Sherlock: The Sign of Three
by Stephen Thompson, Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss; dir. Colm McCarthy (BBC, 2014)
Possibly the funniest of all Sherlock episodes, albeit skewed beyond the pale towards character development and adapting little of its plot from Conan Doyle’s stories. While Benedict Cumberbatch brings Sherlock’s misanthropy painfully centre-stage, Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington are more humanly sublime.