Hang the DJ (Black Mirror)

"Hang the DJ"
Black Mirror episode
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Episode no.	Series 4 Episode 4
Directed by	Tim Van Patten
Written by	Charlie Brooker
Featured music	Original Score by Alex Somers Sigur Rós
Original air date	29 December 2017 (2017-12-29)
Running time	51 minutes
Guest appearance(s)
Georgina Campbell as Amy Joe Cole as Frank George Blagden as Lenny Gwyneth Keyworth as Nicola Gina Bramhill as Coach Jessie Cave as Edna Luke Manning as Mike Tim Pritchett as Norman Alex Tamaro as Butch Che Watson as Silverfox Bruce Chong as David Anna Dobrucki as Patty
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"Hang the DJ" is the fourth episode of the fourth series of anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by Charlie Brooker and directed by Tim Van Patten. The episode first aired on Netflix, along with the rest of series four, on 29 December 2017.

Amy (Georgina Campbell) and Frank (Joe Cole) are two of many people in a walled-off System that are instructed by a digital companion, Coach (voiced by Gina Bramhill), into romantic relationships with others. Coach dictates how long partners can spend together, collects their data, and helps them find their "ultimate compatible other". Amy and Frank are only arranged for a short period of time, before they are paired off with others. After a few brief encounters, Amy and Frank realise they have fallen in love with each other, and try to rebel against Coach and the System.

The episode received critical acclaim for its simple, satisfying storyline and Campbell and Cole's performances. Critics praised the Tinder and Siri-like technologies explored throughout the episode and its ending. Some compared the episode to the uplifting tone of San Junipero.

Frank (Joe Cole) is instructed by "Coach", an artificial intelligence system installed on a small, circular tablet, to go to "the Hub", a large, mall-like building. Frank goes to a restaurant in the Hub, where he is joined by Amy (Georgina Campbell), who is also following Coach's instructions. There, the two admit to each other that this is both of their first times in "the System", which dictates which romantic relationships its users will enter into, and for how long. Amy and Frank check their tablets and find that they only have 12 hours remaining in their relationship.

Amy and Frank are taken to a numbered house, passing an encircling wall on the way. They talk, then sleep next to each other, parting the next morning after their tablets count down their relationship time to zero. In separate conversations with Coach, it is revealed that the System enters users into numerous relationships and collects data on them in order to match the user with their "ultimate compatible other" on the user's "pairing day", which it does with an alleged 99.8 percent certainty.