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Plot. Joan Tait (Annie Murphy) wakes up, eats breakfast made by her fiancé Krish (Avi Nash) and drives to work while lip syncing to Saweetie 's rap "Tap In" (2020). Under instruction from the board of directors, she fires Sandy (Ayo Edebiri), who worked to reduce the company's carbon emissions.
- What Is The Plot of 'Joan Is Awful'?
- So, Uh, What's Going on with This Show?
- Then, Things Get More Meta
- What Happens at The End of 'Joan Is Awful'?
- What Does It All Mean?
"Joan Is Awful" doesn't open on one of Joan's best days. She fires a colleague and rekindles an affair with her ex boyfriend within hours. Then, she returns home and cuddles with her current boyfriend to find a show on the streamer Streamberry (clearly riffing off Netflix, right down to the branding). An uncanny offering pops up on their feed. The ...
The entire show is CGI-generated using data from Joan's phone and a licensed image of Salma Hayek. Using futuristic (though not too unimaginable) technology, Streamberry's quantum computer is able to mix it all up and ... boom! Create an episode. While meeting with a lawyer, Joan learns that she has no recourse. "Legally, the Streamberry Corporatio...
Unable to stop the show from streaming, Joan and Salma decide there's only one option: Stop the show from being made. They break into Streamberry's offices with the intention of destroying the quantum computer. Finally standing before the "quamputer," a man (Michael Cera) delivers a mind-altering twist. Joan learns she's not Joan: She's the actress...
Annie Murphy destroys the quantum computer with an axe, concluding that since the entire sequence is "based on decisions that have already happened," she has to go through with it. "It's not my decision. It's Joan's," she says, destroying the computer and destroying all of the fictive levels — and any possibility of more shows in this format, which...
The episode had people online joking about checking the terms and conditions of their Netflixand worrying about the future of AI. Beyond that, Murphy says the episode is a commentary on how people are more likely to relish others' bad news than their good (which Streamberry's CEO points to when she explains why the show is called "Joan Is Awful," n...
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- Elena Nicolaou,Ayanna Miller
Mainly, the twist that the Joan we followed was a sub-level (TV show) and there is a real Joan destroying the machine in real life. So what make this wrong is, the AI that is making the show up is only getting info from the real world thru security cam or listening to phone.
Jun 15, 2023 · The night ends with the Joan Is Awful episode coming full circle, revealing Cate Blanchett as the actress playing Joan in the show-within-the-show-within-the-show.
Jun 15, 2023 · Annie Murphy talks about the AI twist at the ending fo her "Black Mirror" episode "Joan Is Awful" and working with Salma Hayek. Murphy stars alongside Salma Hayek, who plays herself, in...
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- Multiplatform Editor
Jun 9, 2023 · Krish, Joan’s boyfriend in the real world who stumbles upon the show with her, is played by Avi Nash in the Black Mirror “Joan is Awful” cast. Nash is best known for playing Siddiq on the hit horror series The Walking Dead, with a major arc from season 8 to season 10.
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Jun 22, 2023 · The real-life Joan destroys 'Joan Is Awful.' Once they arrive at Streamberry's headquarters, the unlikely team make their way to the office of CEO Mona Javadi (Leila Farzad).
