Paul Giamatti Says ‘Eulogy’ Is Closest Thing to a ‘Happy Ending’ for ‘Black Mirror’: ‘He Ends Up Better’

“The Holdovers” star tells TheWrap about Phillip’s “masochistic desire” to dive into painful memories and the episode’s less “menacing” approach to technology

Black Mirror Season 7
Paul Giamatti and others in "Black Mirror" Season 7 (Photo Credit: Netflix)

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Black Mirror” Season 7, Episode 5, “Eulogy.”

While there are rarely happy endings in “Black Mirror,” Paul Giamatti said his Season 7 episode, “Eulogy” is as close to one as the sci-fi series gets.

“It really is as far as it could be a happy ending,” Giamatti told TheWrap. “I don’t know if it’s happy, but I think he ends up better — it’s a better ending than it could have been.”

In “Eulogy,” Giamatti stars as Phillip, a lonely man who is offered the chance to revisit a heartbreaking and pivotal relationship from his 20s by using a system that enables users to step into memories from photographs.

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