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Black Mirror Season 5, Episode 1: Striking Vipers
Striking Vipers employs video gaming as a backdrop for an insightful look at relationships, love, lust, sexuality, and porn. In this episode, writer Charlie Brooker creates a plotline that revolves around two best friends, played by Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateem II. The friends begin playing a new version of the virtual reality game Striking Vipers and soon are enmeshed in a sexually pleasing, tense, and confusing scenario. As their gaming relationship unfolds, the two men confront questions of sexuality (am I gay if I am having virtual sex with a man, even if he appears as a woman online?), and fidelity (if you are married, is a virtual affair really cheating?).
Questions of sexuality and masculinity are woven into the episode, as it tackles an often-ignored subject in mainstream culture: male sexuality on a spectrum. Although research and studies such as The Kinsey Scale show most people fall somewhere on a spectrum between gay and straight, men in Western culture are always presumed to be nothing but extremely heterosexual, and many are very preoccupied with proving this. But given the judgment-free zone of virtual reality, the male protagonists in this episode are free to explore their sexuality. Yet they still have to come to terms with it in real life, which leads to confusion, intense feelings, and confrontation.
By the time the episode concludes, the audience is left pondering how much virtual reality affects relationships due to porn addictions, and the show offers glimpses into how people addicted to porn or obsessed with porn often face intimacy issues in real life. And more broadly, haven’t we all had times where interacting with people online or on social media seems so much safer and easier than in real life? What is the solution? I won’t give away the ending, but let’s just say it’ll throw you for a loop.
Black Mirror Season 5, Episode 2: Smithereeens
This episode takes a haunting and disturbing (would it even be Black Mirror if it weren’t disturbing?) look at the age of social media and how powerful, chaotic, and influential social media can be on our behavior as individuals and also as a society. In the episode, written by Charlie Booker, actors Andrew Scott (who plays Chris) and Damson Idris (as Jaden) connect IRL when Chris picks up Jaden to give him a ride, via a rideshare app like Uber.
When follows is a tense look at modern-day cell phone communications, bureaucracy, and the God-like power that social media has risen to in our lives. Although the episode got more literal and heavy-handed than some earlier episodes of Black Mirror, it still resonated with a chilling warning about the impact of notifications and the removal of meaning from our lives due to everything being trivialized, documented, posted, shared, and forgotten online 24/7.
The ambiguous ending to Black Mirror Season 5 Episode 2 was frustrating yet powerful, as the web went crazy with social media ablaze asking who got shot.
Discussing the ending with Den of Geek, Charlie Brooker said: "No it was always deliberately an ambiguous ending, in that instead what we show is it rippling out and becoming a piece of confetti in people’s lives on their timelines that they sort of glance at it, and then put it away. That was always in there and that seemed like the best ending." The most memorable event in the protagonists' lives is just a notification in others.
And indeed it became just another blip on social media.
Black Mirror Season 5, Episode 3: Rachel, Jack, and Ashley, Too
The third and final episode of Black Mirror Season 5 deals with pop stars, virtual reality, identity, and pop culture. The episode stars Miley Cyrus as Ashely O, a disillusioned pop princess playing the part of happy, encouraging, teen girl role model, with her malignant aunt manager always controlling her from the sidelines.
As the story unfolds, we are taken into the life of Rachel, a lonely, awkward teen trying to fit in at a new school. She becomes obsessed with her new Ashley Too doll, a robotic doll that has conversations and becomes her bubbly confidante.
Although the episode serves up some promising themes about identity, virtual reality, and the dangers of isolation, false self-esteem, and social decay in real-life situations due to too much living in virtual reality instead, the episode falls short on delivering those themes. Instead, it turns into an unrealistic, bad stereotype of a teen girls movie that ends with happiness and everyone uniting, including the virtual reality doll, who helps save the day. This was a disappointing way to end Black Mirror and with the acting of superstars like Miley Cyrus, it strays away from Black Mirror’s British roots of great acting delivered by mostly unknown actors in relatable, complex, and often terrifying situations.
Overall, Black Mirror Season 5 is worth checking out for any Black Mirror fan and forming your own opinions. What is your favorite Black Mirror episode? What did you think of Black Mirror Season 5?
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