Black Mirror Analysis | San Junipero

I’m confused in that they knew each other in real life??? But they just met in the simulation? That part makes no sense to me.

Episode description: Violence
The Violence: a slap on face in an argument

Probably the most "overrated" episode just due to the positive reviews because of subject matter. I really do not believe the creator's comments that they wanted a "happy one". All the stories are dark and that is their brand. Really, watching the entire story, it just made much more sense for Kelly to leave. Yorkie had her real life cheated and really in life experience she is young and experiencing everything for the first time. Kelly is old and had a long life and had a husband and family and ditching all of that to be with a girl she just met in this online heaven really made no logical sense, but I think they were afraid of going that route.

Did anyone else come here because of Rick and Morty???

San Junipero is constantly looked at as a “happy” episode, but, come on! I’m not religious, but she left the possibility of being reunited with her family in heaven, for the for sure chance with another person. She forsakes a lifelong relationship for something she’s just come upon. I don’t think this is a happy story at all

What if there’s an afterlife outside the computer?

I'm 26 years old, I much likely won't live to see some technology like that, my consciousness will go to the eternal abyss like everyone else that has ever died 😔

I know I'm too late for this, but god I love San Junipero so much! this episode CHANGED me, I'm like Yorkie shy and lonely. I starting to love my sexuality, I love 80's more so much and appreciate it, theyre so beautiful, and Mackenzie Davis god shes my crush, I love the cinematography of this episode, the soundtracks, the atmosphere 80's, San Junipero is the only thing I watched on BM but I already obsessed and loved this episode so much. i wish San Junipero is real ❤😭

Pardon to bother. But I think you didn't get the episode. I think the core theme is more about the nature of the human soul. The topic of the soul being more than just a compilation of signals is brought up several times in the episode. The question which the episode asks is more if the people in the simulation are actually conscious or mere philosophical zombies. I think that, that she decides for the assisted suicide in the end, not because she accepts the false reality, but because the women she got to love died in her eyes and she doesn't wanna proceed living.

This episode makes me question wether living forever is actually a good idea

You’ve never heard of INXS? Talk about living in a box…

Yikes man dude doesn't even know how to pronounce INXS one of the quintessential 80s and 90s bands

This episode is so fucked up and twisted. I can’t believe there are people that actually hold it as an example of a positive or romantic relationship.

Mackenzie is such adorable ever.

Together forever

This was the first Dark Mirror episode I watched.

It’s a miata

Its pronounced "IN - EXCESS".

Kelly was toxic and didn’t deserve Yorkie!

A song called Living in a Box, from an album called Living in a Box, from a band called Living in a Box, reflects the fact that they are Living in a Box. Priceless

the main character was so fucking annoying 2 me I’m sorry . she was always so scared and sad 4 no reason and always got mad when she didn’t get her way and guilt tripped Kelly . I wish kelly never went back 2 her and left her dumbass by herself

beautifully acted; beautiful writing

I think this is the most perfect hour of TV I've seen

Yes it's sad in parts, and the reality part of it is about fairly traumatic things that people can face in life. Whilst of course there are dangers with this kind of technology if it existed, as is explained both in this episode and a lot of other BM episodes, it does for once show how this kind of technology could be used to improve our lives.

I believe it is a happy ending for all... I disagree that it would've been right for Kelly to follow her husband and daughter. The point is that they went to nothing and by following them it would've been the same and she would've been somewhat of a martyr. Now she gets to live a life with a woman she has this beautiful connection with... She has this second chance, just like Yorkie.

Whether it's virtual reality or not, the brain is very much in SJ. And I mean, the brain is us right? Our body is just an organism for our brain to live in. If our brain can live on in another organism in an alternate world, that is reality surely?

I don't know, that's why it's a perfect bit of TV... Throws up morality questions, reality questions, makes us think about what is right and wrong in our own mortal lives. And then on top of that the soundtrack and the story itself are just beautiful.

Yorkie can also derive from New York City where the gay scene was really starting to grow in the 80's.

This episode always stuck with me, him having the ability to take away her face and keep her suffocating indefinitely was frankly terrifying.

this episode made me so sad it was so relatable to me especially the part where they could go to different times like i want to go to the 80s or 90s or 2000s

The band name is pronounced in-x-s

I wish the story could have gone deeper into the struggle between one's religious beliefs about the afterlife Vs the artificial man made afterlife...

It seems the husband chosing not to try out the artificial afterlife may also be due to his belief in the traditional afterlife, maybe he believes the dead daughter might be waiting for him in THAT non-artificial type of traditional afterlief .... which makes it difficult for the wife who has found a new love and has to chose between which one to follow, the old love vs the new love, the traditional afterlife or the artificial afterlife ...

The show could have fleshed out this struggle more but its only lightly touched upon when she says that she does not believe in the traditional afterlife ....

While artistically brilliant, this episode has radical moral implications. Euthanasia, a controversial issue to start with, is required for the two main characters to enter the simulation permanently. The serious and troubling issues Kelly has with forgoing a possible reunion with her dead husband and daughter are shrugged off, and both women choose an artificial heaven rather than the authentic
one their deaths might otherwise lead to. Is technologically enabled escapism really a replacement for a true spiritual afterlife, as it has been described traditionally by many of the world’s great religions? The dark hedonism of the Quagmire hints at the pursuit of pleasure that San Junipero prioritizes, which may be the director’s not-so-subtle suggestion
that everything is not so heavenly in this artificially-created paradise.

Hi guys

I don't know, it made me sad, but after I thought about it, Kelly mind and or memory of life is not her soul. which is supposed to be what goes on of us, are those two different things? If there was such a thing in the future, and there is nothing after we die. what of all the people that lost out and not just because of death, what about Alzheimer or dementia.

In excess
INXS

It's not a second chance. When they die a copy of them is put on the system. So the question is, is there a cost saving over elder care?

Besides, the producers of the show dont realize real life scientists using the latest ai are researching ways to make micro wormholes to upload consciousness from people who already died before the virtual heaven exists.

Einstein, Socrates, anyone can be brought back to life

Her family can be alive in the simulation with technology that would exist in 40 to 100 years from now.

who else is here from eduqas a level media lol

This episode has the most depressing concept ever. Having to survive life as a ginger.

Dude , how do you know the Pixies but you have no idea who INXS were ?! They were huge in the 89s/90s

I like like when Futurama did this

So obviously, the idea has been around for a long time

I do believe we will get something like this, and I hope it happens before I pass because then I won’t have to pay for my sins

Fvck this episode because.. gay.

For the past 4-5 years I’ve had dreams where I’m I the house I grew up in. It’s different dreams, but a variation of the same house. I’ve had dreams from the 1990’s, of the modern day where I’ve moved back in and also in the future of the same house but the house has evolved into a bigger house. This to me is like a version of San Juniper as it’s the best time of my life when I was a kid. No worries or anxiety. Could play out in the street without a care in the world. Writing this now, I feel it’s somehow linked to my daughter. Today my kid can’t have a childhood like mine and I’d love her to experience that just for a day. I’d love to experience it in a different way. Whether it’s artificial or whatever.

The episode was actually disgusting 🤮 literally the west is getting crazy

As a 42 year old man, this episode made me cry. The 80s, the story, my absolute favorite episode. Had a huge effect on me.

So what happens if the power goes out? Or there is like a Y2K event? Or Stone Age apocalypse?

And another thing is that it’s not humanly possible to just party for all eternity. You’d grow so tired of clubbing, you’d go crazy. Or what if they lose interest in one another? Then what? With what we know about human psychology…..this would go so wrong in so many ways.

What a tremendous episode about loss and redemption.

I’m still confused even after watching this analysis lol

Unpopular opinion but this was my least favorite. S7 episode 1 was top notch

My favorite Black Mirror episode forever and ever and ever