In 2023, Annie Murphy took on her most unsettling project yet when played the title role on a “Black Mirror” episode. “Joan is Awful” opens the dystopian, tech-obsessed show’s 6th season and follows Joan Tait as she has, by all accounts, a mostly unremarkable day. Her fiancé Krish (Avi Nash) makes her breakfast, and while she’s at work, she fires a colleague named Sandy (Ayo Edebiri) and then vapes while watching the woman get led out by security. After work, Joan meets up with her ex-boyfriend Mac (Rob Delaney), and the two share a kiss before she heads home where she and Krish settle in for the evening to watch a new show on the popular streaming service Streamberry called “Joan is Awful.”
As Joan watches, her entire day is replayed in front of Krish, with Salma Hayek playing the part of her. To say things get more and more convoluted from here is an understatement. It’s eventually revealed that Streamberry can create content using anyone’s likenesses, including Hayek, who is actually only appearing on the show as an AI deepfake. Murphy might play Joan, but this episode takes so many twists and turns that by the end, the Emmy winner is actually playing herself as she eventually meets the real Joan (Kayla Lorette). The hour is a masterclass in lunacy from Murphy, and it’s much funnier than a typical “Black Mirror” segment — despite the disturbing implications at hand.
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