Smithereens - S5 E2 (Without pictures)
Could Social Media Smash our Lives into Smithereens? We have chosen to analyse the Black Mirror episode "Smithereens". We have chosen to take a closer look at this episode because it touches upon the risks of social media. Chris Gillhaney (Andrew Scott), is a driver for an Uber-like service called Hitcher . He attends group therapy, where he apparently is grieving the loss of someone very close to him. Here he meets a woman called Hayley (Amanda Drew), who he sleeps with. Hayley has been unsuccessfully trying to log into her dead daughter's Persona -account. Every day Chris tries to pick up anyone who works for the social-media giant Smithereen . When he eventually does it’s Jaden Tommins (Damson Idris). Chris goes on to kidnap Jaden at gunpoint, demanding to speak with Smithereen- founder, Billy Bauer (Topher Grace). The police are alerted to the kidnapping, and force Chris into a standoff on a field. While Chris is held in the field by the police, people at Smithereen...
