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Paul Giamatti Breaks Down ‘Black Mirror’ Episode ‘Eulogy’ and That ‘Creepy’ and ‘Ambiguous’ Ending

Paul Giamatti stars in the "Black Mirror" Season 7 episode "Eulogy" and breaks down the optimistic — yet creepy — ending.

Paul Giamatti is an enormous fan of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series “Black Mirror,” so he jumped at the opportunity to be a player in the seventh season, now out on Netflix. Luckily, Giamatti’s talents are put to better use in “Eulogy,” an episode that stands apart from many chapters of “Black Mirror.” Eschewing techno-based horror in favor of a quiet tale of nostalgia, Giamatti stars as Philip, a man living a solitary life who is contacted to offer memories of the recently deceased Carol, a mysterious acquaintance from his past, for a digital eulogy. Yet even the emotional ending, in which he finally sees his past clearly, is undercut by a brief yet pointed look at the rest of the attendees at the service, all plugged into the digital eulogy and looking like unblinking zombies sitting in the pews.

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