Black Mirror Analysis - Eulogy
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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June 25, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Burdo Black Mirror, Season 7, |
| 0:04.3 | Sleven. |
| 0:05.1 | Episode 5, Eulogy, my favorite episode of the season, and my second favorite episode of Black Mirror overall behind White Christmas. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:18.9 | What do you say? |
| 0:19.4 | Let's do it. |
| 0:20.2 | This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist. I'm also a professor. |
| 0:25.2 | My name is Umberto Cassaneda, and I teach dogs not to fear bark. So I want to start by asking everyone, including you, Berto, what story have you written about a past relationship that might be wrong? |
| 0:39.2 | You know, what story have you just taken for granted that... |
| 0:43.9 | Oh, that's fascinating. |
| 0:45.2 | You know, maybe is out of whack because you didn't see the letter that was on the hotel floor. |
| 0:53.3 | Or maybe you've just never |
| 0:55.0 | revisited the story to really evaluate your initial narrative about it. And with re-evaluation, |
| 1:05.1 | you would say, well, maybe I was a little too harsh about the other person, or maybe not harsh |
| 1:10.7 | enough, you know, depending. So that's what this episode is about the other person, or maybe not harsh enough, you know, depending. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | So that's what this episode is about. |
| 1:14.7 | It stars Paul Giamatti, written by Charlie Brooker and Ella Road. |
| 1:19.9 | So I'm going to go through the plot here, which is a little bit more detailed than usual |
| 1:27.1 | because, I don't know, I just love this episode so much. |
| 1:29.3 | But so Paul Giamatti, he plays Philip, who is a reclusive former musician. |
| 1:36.5 | And he's living in Cape Cod in his parents, former house, I think. |
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