New Netflix mockumentary Death to 2020 features a segment on the toppling of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol.
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker's satirical look back at the year sees Hugh Grant play an elderly academic who is unhappy about the dumping of the slave trader's bronze figure in the Floating Harbour.
The narrator introduces the segment by describing the sculpture as a "relic of an intolerant past", as the camera lingers on a placard bearing the words: "Bristol was built on slavery".
Grant's history professor Tennyson Foss criticises the felling, which happened during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 7.
He says: "Look, these people are trying to destroy history."
Brooker asks: "What if by tearing these statues down, they're actually making history?"
After a long pause, Foss replies: "Shut up and move on."
Diane Morgan, playing "average citizen" Gemma Nerrick, weighs in: "They threw him in the sea which is cruel. They might have killed him. Can statues breathe underwater?"
Brooker says: "No, they don't breathe at all."
Nerrick responds: "OK, so he probably swam to safety."
The show then continues its exploration of racial injustice, as Samuel L. Jackson says: "You had corporations going woke too, asking themselves how they can support black people without actually paying them."
Death to 2020, released yesterday (December 27), has received largely negative reviews.
The Telegraph called it a "disappointing rehash of tired jokes", while the Independent branded it "a complete mess".
You can find out more about the toppling of the statue, and what has happened in the months since, here.
