There is a bit of a melancholy message that these people could only express their true personas after death.

Our technological future is both exciting and horrifying

I completely forgot I was watching black mirror when watching this Red head is cute af tho

Greg is the ultimate madlad

Kelly and Yorkie as a couple worked so well for me. Their personality types totally different and yet again connected through their (shared) loneliness. And their chemistry was in plain terms off the charts!

The music on this episode was top notch

This episode made me cry. It was sad beautiful crazy fun and touching all at the same time. Am I the only one who cried watching this?

"If she missed out, how can I?". The most powerful line for me.

This episode made me cry so damn hard. One never really got to live until death. The other finally let themselves live again.

it's pretty pissing off that people are saying that the reason this episode is loved is that of lesbians and that the writers gave it an optimistic ending for the same reasons. But it isn't. Its one of the most beautiful episodes in the series, with lively cinematics and a gut-wrenching story, which makes you question reality itself. The ending might have turned out optimistic for Yorkie and Kelly, but it really puts forward the question of humanity and death. The episode deals with the long old battle of heaven, and if it exists or not. People don't seem to understand, this episode would've been just as amazing if it didn't have the LGBT aspect to it. Making the story centered around lesbians just adds to the accepting nature of the show and only fuels the story with more power. It's nice seeing Yorkie finally happy free and Kelly finally moving on, whilst questioning their reality. It really merges two very different questions and gets our gears turning, gets us thinking about the afterlife, gets us thinking about how heaven could actually be.... a place on Earth.

This episode and Black Museum are my favorite episodes in the series.

probably the best episode of black mirror period

Except I missed something, isn't the Quagmire meant to suggest the fading bliss of San Junipero? That eventually every decays into numbness and the Quagmire patrons are searching for feeling again.

dude i watched this when i was high and i totally thought they were time travelers and it made a whole lot of sense. more sense than this video tbh. definitely recommend black mirror high lmao

You missed discussing some of my favorite foreshadowing in this episode, which is one I love to rewatch: Yorkie's glasses not being needed for vision correction (since she's virtual). All the foreshadowing that it's VR (the young guy with the worn-out knee cap replacements dancing, "five months to live" being taken in stride, the cavalier attitude about reckless driving, and the brilliant double meanings such as people being dressed inauthentically because they got it out of a movie, or two women dancing not being a big deal anymore -- that is, not like it was in the real 1987). The two reveals (the mirror that unsmashes itself and does not cause bleeding, which reveals it's VR, and the line that follows "you might try a different time" being years instead of hours. I also think it's worth mentioning the characters who forget the point of the whole thing: the guy who, restored to youth for a few precious hours, spends it complaining about his medical woes and recent surgery, and the guy whose idea of a good time in an immersive VR is to play virtual video games. Finally, I'd have liked to hear your opinion on whether the montage of Yorkie trying on different clothes is really the montage we think it is, or whether plugging in a new cassette instantly dresses her in a predefined outfit that matches the music. You made some good points and pointed out a detail or two I'd missed, but I'd have liked more analysis and less paraphrasing of the dialog we all heard.

The relationship between the girls is one thing, but I mainly love the production and setting of this episode. It stirs up emotions and memories. The idea of a mercurial figure who everyone seems to desire, the jumping between time periods in a location that obviously evokes memories of great times in the user's past. The music's brilliant (bar Kylie in the 90s lol), the sun seemingly is setting over the ocean for the whole weekend, and even the clubs aren't too packed. Even though I wasn't even born in the 80's, it brings me a sad feeling that youth isn't forever.

I just realized Girlfriend in a Coma was a reference to Yorkie’s situation akshskajaka

This episode really hit me hard. My fiancée had a cardiac arrest and is in a similar vegetative state like Yorki - she can't see or move but can hear. And her "highly religious" parents refuse to consider euthanasia because of their beliefs, also. She doesn't have a San Junipero to live in while she's a prisoner in her own body, though, so it was definitely a bittersweet and thought-provoking episode all at once.

I've always thought that when Kelly crashed her car and saw Yorkie's face first after she got up made her change her mind about now passing over. She learned that maybe there's nothing after she dies so she might as well try San Junipero and be with Yorkie. After all, they can call the simulation off if they didn't feel like it anymore, as Yorkie mentioned.

This episode really got to the core of me, my biggest fear in life is ageing and the fact you can’t stop getting older makes me sad. This episode really woke me up and made me understand how precious the time I’m living in now is what really matters, to not look back on the past and to keep striving forward. To know that I don’t have to wait until I die to live the life I always dreamed of living.

I'm new to black mirror and this episode spoke the loudest to me. I'm in constant confusion about myself, and 2019 is 2 days away. I want to leave my past in 2018, and be a new me. I want to feel free and just because numbers change doesn't mean I change. My new years resolution is to meet people and get out. Be comfortable and accept myself.

Why do we all love the 80's??

Can't wait for Season 5... I hope it has about 10 to 15 episodes... Can't get enough of it...

When Yorkie tries to find Kelly, the fonts of the "One week later" text change. It becomes smoother, which represents the development of technology through the ages.

Always wondered how Alphaville's "Forever Young" didn't make it into this one. Too on the nose? But then there's "Girlfriend in a Coma" ...

San Junipero doesn't have a bright happy ending. The secret lies in the Quagmire. If the world of "San Junipero" is a road, then the narrative between Kelly and Yorkie begins at the very start of the road. We see the intensity of emotion that goes along with new experiences. However, at the end of the road lies the Quagmire. The state of emotional destitution that comes with an eternal unchanging life. The entire episode is a distraction from the reality of their situation. They're blissfully ignorant of the gravity of their decision for immortality because they can't see past the passion of the current moment. Similarly, the show doesn't focus nor dwell on the Quagmire because it's focusing on the emotional story between these two characters.

Just saw this show for the first time last night. This episode and the white Christmas one... I’ve been missing out. Nice breakdown...

I liked this episode but I was left confused

I want to see an easter egg style News headline in a future episode reading "Thousands of souls lost in Junipero cyber-terror attack"

Literally the best, most beautiful, mind-blowing, and perfect episode in Black Mirror. But at the same time this episode broke my heart... Absolutely beautiful. Wish we could have the system when we die.

Probably very obvious but the 12 o'clock restriction to people who are visiting the world seems like it is referring cinderella - especially Yorkie falling in love and trying to find Kelly after they have their first night together.

black mirror is such a great series and every new episode suprises me again and again with it's great writing and awesome ideas

I used to dislike Heaven is a Place on Earth until this episode. Now, I love this song!

OK, I hate to be dark, but because I was initially surprised that the ending seemed so happy I went back and watched more carefully. This is just a theory but it seems to fit with all the facts in the story AND renders a very dark ending. Kelly goes to great effort to tell Yorki that she has no intention of being put into San Junipero when she actually dies and explains this with such conviction that her view of living indefinitely in San Junipero before OR after her physical real death is contemptible to her...that she is just having some fun before she dies. Consequently, she elects to actually marry Yorki prior to Yorki's death to make Yorki feel better. However, there is an important scene where Kelly is being physically buried at a cemetery which precedes the scene in San Junipero with her arriving to see Yorki. My take is that Kelly never opted to go to San Junipero but rather the simulation of San Junipero used what was already known by the software to make Kelly appear FOR the sake of Yorki's post-death version in San Junipero. What I am trying to say is that the software is pleasing a software version of a dead person named Yorki by deceiving her with the fiction that Kelly was so overjoyed with Yorki that she changed her mind about coming to San Junipero, when in fact she did not-she dies and makes sure they do not upload her. The version then is so dark because both die, one is happy that her semblance will be uploaded making her falsely hope or think this will be a form of immortality (it is not). It is the more dark because the apparition of Yorki is deceived. Sort of sorry to even say all this but someone either has to tell me how this is inconsistent or if I am insane.

San Junipero is my favorite episode now. IT ACTUALLY HAS A HAPPY ENDING! had me in tears during parts of it

This episode actually made me cry! MacKenzie really conveys the pain Yorkie felt at getting stood up after a true connection that she hadn't experienced before. The ending seeing them finally happy, seemingly forever, just made me bawl like a baby, and I'm pretty sure it's the music that helped too.

Nobody asked, but Yorkie’s glasses look a lot like mine do.

I felt the ending was jarring. The happy rock music blaring when you see Kelly getting the euthanasia juice through tubes really made me question if I saw what I just saw. I wonder how long Yorkie and Kelly's relationship will last, and when they both will decide to end their consciousnesses since they have the choice to do that too. Do people really want to live in an afterlife where its just an almost mirror replica of the real world and where they only satisfy carnal human desires? It's a good thing that they have the option to end their lives anytime they want imo

this episode will always be my favourite, i remember getting so emotional towards the end of it to the point of tears, it’s so bittersweet, i really love it

I love watching your reviews after watching the episode. It makes the entire experience better

I’m in the middle of binging Black Mirror and honestly this has got to be my favorite episode so far. It was disturbing, but also heartwarming at the same time and I’m going to be fantasizing about this forever. I am sure if this was an actual thing I would be hooked on it. Imagine living in your dreams fully conscious…

I think this is the only episode that has a truly happy ending

san junipero makes me cry every time the best episode period

This Episode made me wanna fall in love lol ,I'm I the only one who felt like this?

I wasn't even alive but daum the 80's aesthetics were dope

Speaking of music, at the 16 minute mark, the guy says in the club, "I never got this song.". It's funny because the song is called Living in a Box, which was by the band Living in the Box.... Nicely done

This and White Christmas are probably the best episodes of Black Mirror. Funny is one has a very good ending, and another very bad and depressed

Sounds like you are reading an essay from high school about your favorite TV episode

idk why but this episode really confused me and still does

Black Mirror sometime feels like how a medieval person, who's only seen hand drawn art, would react to a photo.. Or someone who's only seen black & white, looking at colored "realistic" pictures. Or someone who's only seen unmoving pictures, look at a movie. Or someone who's only seen a flat movie look at their first 3'D. Or someone who's _seen_ 3'd content, react to a VR headset. It's just bonkers, impossible, unreal.I wonder how far it will go? IDK about reproducing someone. That's basically recreating life. Then again, maybe I'm in a cave, trying to perceive the world through shadows.

I've watched this particular episode at least dozen times, and I still can't get through to the end without crying.

First i thought Yorkie was playing a VR game, and Kelly was a girl who used to live in the 80s (like a memorie), if that makes any sense, and that Yorkie was falling in love with a girl who doesn't exist anymore. I know, it sounds really weird, but that's what i thought it was going to be lol.

I love lesbian romances and this was one of my favorite.

So Kelly chose this simulation / afterlife because she was afraid there was no afterlife without it. She mentioned her husband and daughter being 'nowhere' after they died. She couldn't take the risk to see if there was an afterlife without the simulation, so she chose the simulation.

Found your channel recently, and I'm loving your videos so far! Keep it up, man, you've earned yourself a new sub!

Man, you're videos are gold! great diving in the meanings

I cried watching this episode. So beautiful. It's up there in my top 3 with Playtest and Black Museum

This episode gave me goosebumps all over. It’s so perfect

I loved this episode so much. The feels...just everything! I would love to see more on this particular story. It was perfection.

As a bisexual woman who married the woman she loved, this became one of my favourite episodes as it mirrored our own story.

This episode makes me cry hysterically....even just this recap makes me cry. I'm gay, in a 6 year relationship with my boyfriend. I'm 38 and he's 62. His brother was paralyzed, but passed away many years ago. I'm the wild child type, he's the conservative type but had his days in the 80's, where I was just being born. I don't know why I'm saying all this. Just sharing how deeply moving this episode is to me. Love knows no age, life is so short and technology is amazing. I just wanna go to a club with my lover in 1987 and live & dance forever! Especially now where corona has everything closed. I played first two episodes of the show for him but he wasn't a fan. I will convince him to continue, as there are soo many great episodes that haunt you forever. I can't wait to the day we watch this episode together and I start crying non stop. as soon as it starts....Happy Valentines day, today in 2021! I hope you find love too!

I'm not an emotional person at all but this episode is very touching. Not because of the sexual things, but the concept of people of various ages (in this case elderly people) meeting in a virtual world where they become young again. How people could fall in love in that state, and finding ourselves even after our biological death. What even is death? What even is reality? What makes the "real world" any different than the simulations? Technology is so magical.

New subscriber!! Really love ur voice and how well u explain the episodes, keep up the great work :))

Great analysis! I absolutely love this episode of Black Mirror. I watch it frequently still and never thought to see what others think of it. 💘

The thought of living for eternity freaks me out though

god the music for this episode is 👌👌 especially the Smiths I freakin love them

I Just Found Your Channel! I Like The Way You Explain Things And How You Say Things Like It Is. Keep Up The Nice Work! 🤙🏼

I caught this season of San Junipero on a free online movie site, it had another title, but I loved it, have watched it several times, already!! Thank You for your video, explaining the movie!!

This episode is my comfort blanket. I watch it a few times a year, whenever I feel at my lowest and it helps. IMO it's the greatest love story ever told. Unfortunately, at the end it's not them. Once they die it's just AI programs acting out based on their memories. The real Kelly and Yorkie... they have moved on to the real afterlife. This does not diminish the story in any way. It's a beautiful story, and probably the best Black Mirror episode of them all. I have watched this episode a lot, and never it never gets old to me.

this is the one of the episodes i always come back to after watching more disturbing ones like white bear or shut up and dance because, though the ending is kind of bittersweet, it’s still feel good and a more positive ending to a gut wrenching story, as well as a more positive portrayal of possible future technology. i just love it

amazing..this series doesn't seem to miss a thing! every little movement, spoken line, prop, camera shot, song lyric, etc. is intentionally put in there to either hint at something or to create some kind of symbolism. i mean it seems that literally nothing in the show is random or without some purpose. very rarely do we come across stories like that. pretty genius!

Loved this episode. Left me feeling melancholic after it was over. that what a good show does to you.

This episode is the biggest example of an extrovert adopting an introvert and shit hitting the fan

It’s been a while since this episode first aired and I’m still bursting in tears

No one can nor prove nor deny that we already may live in the matrix, like in this movie and it's pretty scary to think about

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This was a really insightful video. I think I agree with everything you said. I just watched a different explanation of the ep, and I disagreed with many claims it made. I think your final line, "One learned to love herself & one learned to love again," was a nearly perfect summary. I would only add that Yorkie's arc was a bit more comprehensive than just learning to love herself. Her greater arc is that she needed to overcome FEAR- fear of what other people think of her, fear of rejection, fear of how to pursue a relationship, of being sexually intimate for the first time, of breaking glass & car accidents, of Kelly seeing her in the physical world, of driving, of dancing with Kelly in front of others. The last 2 shots we see of her,- driving (a RED car no less, like the video game at the beginning),- and even running slightly off the road while kissing Kelly, and dancing like they were the only people in the world, showed how free she was. That was a wonderful transformation.

2:40 Walk Like An Egyptian music Black Mirror Fan: I listen it from a love story about two gay couple in a simulation. Jojo Fan: I listen it as an end credit of a story of a 17 year old British Japanese boy with puncing ghost vs a 120 years old bisexual vampire with punching ghost.

Love your vids man

This episode was incredibly beautiful and upbeat. Great writing, simply 10 stars.

Not sure if this is an Easter egg or not... but the sign in the bar says "Tuckers" and the name of the business in Bandersnatch was called "Tuckersoft". Just realized that while watching this video

Episodes like this can ruin an amazing series

new sub. Love your vids. Big black mirror fan. Happy new year 2019

Man u need to do more of these videos!

This episode was amazing and I'm going to watch it again. I have no idea why when I first started it, I didn't like it that much but once I understood what was going on better I liked it even more.

Easily the best Black Mirror episode. I have to admit, Yorkie's sexual orientation and religious family background was troupie, as it wasn't required for the future relationship of Yorkie and Kelly.

this story is amazing. sadness, happiness mixing I dont even know how to feel when it ends. plus the '80 '90 vibe. OMG I'm too overwhelm

Girl from blade runner 2049! Lol you have great content, i just havent seen or even heard of most shows i see in ur vids recently. But great breakdown and naration as always

Cool video Bro and great review♥♥♥

Literally kept on looking for the ‘technology’ in this episode 😂

I didn’t watch this episode until I was really bored one day (years after it came out) & I was shocked that it was so good because the description didn’t do it justice at all!!

It took me so long to realize it’s vr, and it’s cool how many times you see this tech in other episodes

Just began binging on this show this weekend & omg so good😍. This episode had me in my feelings 🤗😫

This damn episode have me an existential crisis

I already thought of every aspect of the afterlife except the feeling of having a never ending life....like its eternal.U will live forever.The life on earth stopped and now you are gone and you cant go back, cant feel having an ending life. Its amazing how this episode managed to put all of those aspects in an episode

Very good analysis!!! Thank!!

Would love to see an episode that follows that life of someone who has chosen to live in San Junípero forever….I bet that it gets way darker than it seems at first

How convenient the man that gave her 50 yrs is basically ignored

My favorite episode. You also should have mentioned the music playing when Yorki was changing outfits. It not only matched the clothes but had hints of the simulation. Keep up the great work and love your voice !

My favorite Black Mirror episode. Loved it.