Reaches out her hand to caress Yorkie’s face. Help me,” she pleads quietly, “can you just… just make this easy for me?” To be the desire to see that which feels familiar, even if it is not.įew weeks later, in the bathroom at Tucker’s, Kelly is washing her hands. To see, which the camera knows so well, quickly reveals itself in this episode Regarding, it would seem, is at the heart of the episode’s erotics. Regarding you,” says Kelly to Yorkie in an early moment of the story. Sequins-wearing, Smiths-loving 1987 to re-discover each other. Reasons that escape the viewer’s scrutiny, they keep returning to a neon-lit, Of the 20 th century and re-encounter each other in 2002–and yet, for Their youthful virtual avatars will chase each other across the waning decades Kelly and Yorkie might not have been as young as they are in the 80s–in fact, But it is also in its close attention to the strange truth that aĬertain memory need not be your own to elicit a nostalgic response from you. Junipero” is its textured, if occasionally overwrought, account of the late 80s That much is evident the true feat of “San By the time the episode comes to an end (one of the few happy endings in Black Mirror’s history) the two women will fall in love and, in the words of the show, “pass over” as permanent residents of the simulated Californian beach town.ĭon’t know it yet, but they will make us yearn to pass over with them.Ĭharlie Brooker has said that he had been reading about nostalgia therapy as a form of end-of-life care as We don’t know that they are visiting San Junipero, for now. We don’t know that Kelly is dying of cancer and that Yorkie has been in a coma since she was twenty-one. We don’t know yet that, in the outer world, they have been alive for decades. What we don’t know yet is that these characters are visitors to a virtual simulation operated by the TCKR Systems corporation, and peopled by the dead and the dying. Only got a couple of hours,” he says, “so let’s use it.”Īm using it,” she responds as she disappears into the club’s dark entryway. Tucker’s, an arcade nightclub in downtown San Junipero. Still walking, Wes,” she says with her back turned to him. Is wearing a stunning purple fringe jacket with beaded epaulettes and walking awayįrom the man, who is now running after her. You please stop? I’m just trying to have some fun,” she says to the man She hears two people arguing across the street. Upset, she stops in front of a television store, where six copies of Max Headroom, the world’s first computerized TV host, greet her with a “No… Really?”. A queer couple out on the town crosses her path. Yorkie, one of the episode’s protagonists, walks out onto the street of the titular beach town wearing a striped pullover in muted pastels and mid-thigh khaki shorts. It is the year 1987, and Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” is playing on the radio. “San Junipero,” the fourth episode of the third season of the techno-dystopian television series Black Mirror, opens with a series of distractions.
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