To this day -today, San Jununipero of Season 3 There is high on most top 10 episodes for "black mirror", And part of it is due to how exalted it is. Until this point in the show, viewers were trained to expect the worst, so the big twist here was that there was no turnaround: the simulation of the sky-esk Kelly (Gugu Mba-Raw) and Yorki (McKenzie Davis) live is not a trap. It is a truly impressive experience of idyllic afterlife, something that most of us would happily report if given the opportunity.

Closing the editing in the episode is one of the Yorki and Kelly who accept their digital afterlife in the 1980s San Jununipero, while footage of the simulation computer helps highlight how strange (and miraculous) this opportunity for them. Will this happiness eventually turn to boredom? Probably, but for Yorki (which has spent most of its real life paralyzed and captured with its homophobic family), at least Given technology has given a chance for happiness in the first place.

Since the San Jununipero focuses only on Kelly and York, fans often wanted the show to return to the premise to bother him from a different angle. What is the afterlife for other digital residents here? What other ways is this technology used? In the original draft for the episode, there was a small scene, throwing extra light on these issues. As creator Charlie Brooker Explained in an interview for 2017:

"There were aspects of the story that i took out. For instance, i'd originally written a scene where Gugu's Character, Kelly, is in a kindgarten and there are Children There and When You Realize These are deceased children. Different form if we were doing a straight sequel, if that makes sense.

It is understandable why such a scene is reduced. Not only does it sound tonal tricky, as Brooker said, but it would be mixed with the walking of the episode. Netflix's "Black Mirror" seasons have often been criticized for their shelf life, but the San Jununipero is one of the few that quickly enter and exit. However, it is difficult not to wonder about those digital children we have never seen. Do their brains still develop in San Jununipero? Will they grow into adulthood in the digital world, or do they suck like kindergartens forever?

Nine years after broadcasting the episode, the "Black Mirror" has not yet offered that tracking of the "Sun Ipoonero" Brooker. However, it is not to say that the concept behind the episode has never been investigated. "USS Kalister", for example, also puts his characters in a digital world where everything feels real. The idea of ​​a digital afterlife was also somewhat somewhat in the "White Christmas" of Season 2 and the "Black Museum" of Season 4. There, criminals had their consciousness Taken in a digital worldNot so they could enjoy the afterlife, but so they could be tormented for eternity.

It is said that in almost all other occasions of the "black mirror" that explores the idea of ​​digital awareness, the results were negative. But in retrospect, it just makes the magic of San Jununipero even harder. Everything we know about this type of technology implies a catch: that Kelly and Yorki condemn their souls by agreeing to participate in something that promises so much. But for once in a "black mirror", things go out. Kelly and Yorkki get their happy ending, something barely on this show will ever enjoy.