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Death to 2020 (2020)

Death to 2020 poster
Directed by
Alice Mathias, Al Campbell
Genre
comedy film, mockumentary, pseudo-documentary
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 806 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A fake documentary looks back at the year 2020. Fictional characters from different backgrounds comment on big news events like the pandemic and the U.S. election.

satiricalmockumentaryfast-pacedcynicalself-awaredarkly humorous

What happens

Death to 2020 is a 2020 mockumentary film by Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones under their Broke and Bones production company as a Netflix original production. The special features a series of fictional characters discussing US and UK events of 2020 including the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. presidential election. It was released on Netflix on 27 December 2020. The mockumentary received mostly negative critical reception, with reviewers criticising the jokes as obvious, though some of the cast performances were praised. A sequel special, Death to 2021, was released on 27 December 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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