Between Black Mirror and the Wipes – to say nothing of Brooker's previous career as a critic of acid brilliance – its creators are too good at TV not to know that this is substandard. Clearly there's money behind Death to 2020, given its provenance and the calibre of the contributors. Death to 2020 tramps over ground we are at best wearily familiar with, at worst utterly sick of.' 'The problem is that most of the jokes – and observations – here, we've all already made, lazily, on social media, time and time again. 'You expect greatness from Brooker, but the jokes here are as predictable as the targets of the jokes, only occasionally rising above the quality of this year's dreadful Spitting Image reboot. The Telegraph, describing the special as a 'disappointing rehash' in the headline of its two-star review, said:
