Jump to content

San Junipero

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ehershey (talk | contribs) at 01:34, 2 October 2017 (Grammar fixup). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

"San Junipero"
Black Mirror episode
Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis, left) and Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw).
Episode no.Series 3
Episode 4
Directed byOwen Harris
Written byCharlie Brooker
Featured musicClint Mansell
Original air date21 October 2016 (2016-10-21)
Running time61 minutes
Guest appearances
  • Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Kelly
  • Mackenzie Davis – Yorkie
  • Denise Burse – Elder Kelly
  • Raymond McAnally – Greg
  • Gavin Stenhouse – Wes
  • Cheryl Anderson – Laura
  • Jackson Bews – Harvey
  • Annabel Davis – Elder Yorkie
  • Billy Griffin Jr – Davis
  • Paul Lawrence Kitson – Barman
  • Jeff Mash – Doctor
Episode chronology
← Previous
"Shut Up and Dance"
Next →
"Men Against Fire"
List of Black Mirror episodes

"San Junipero" is the fourth episode of the third series of British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. Written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and directed by Owen Harris, it premiered on Netflix on 21 October 2016, together with the rest of series three. The episode has a substantially happier tone than other Black Mirror episodes, and is one of the show's most successful episodes.

The episode is set in 1987 in a beach resort town named San Junipero, where Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis), a shy woman visiting the town, meets and has sex with the more outgoing Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). The town is revealed to be a simulated reality in which the elderly and deceased can live, and Yorkie is a quadriplegic woman who wishes to be euthanised so she can inhabit it permanently. Kelly marries Yorkie so she can legally authorise this, but is reluctant to join her due to Kelly's husband and daughter having died without joining San Junipero. However, she later decides she is ready to join, and is uploaded to San Junipero so she can be with Yorkie.

"San Junipero" was the first episode written for the third series of Black Mirror; Charlie Brooker was inspired to write an episode to upend viewers' preconceptions of the show. Initial drafts were based on nostalgia therapy and designed as a period piece; they featured a heterosexual couple and an unhappy ending. The soundtrack contains many songs from the 1980s, and the sets were carefully designed to evoke the era. The episode was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa over a few weeks.

The episode has received critical acclaim, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for the series, as well as numerous other awards and nominations. Many critical reviews described the episode as the best of series three; Mbatha-Raw and Davis' performances were almost universally well-received. The episode's storyline was widely praised for its display of a beautiful love story. Some reviewers noted that the other Black Mirror episode directed by Owen Harris – "Be Right Back" – is a similarly soft episode, while others described the episode as the most hopeful and ambitious the show has produced. In critical lists of Black Mirror episodes by quality, "San Junipero" is often in the top three. However, a minority of reviewers have criticised the episode as unoriginal.

Plot

In 1987, a shy and sheltered woman named Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis) visits San Junipero, a beach resort town. Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a vivacious party girl, strikes up a conversation with Yorkie at a night club in order to ditch Wes (Gavin Stenhouse), a man she had sex with previously. Kelly invites Yorkie to dance but Yorkie, self-conscious and embarrassed, flees from the bar. Kelly follows, and flirts with Yorkie before offering to have sex with her. Yorkie declines, saying she is engaged to a man named Greg. The following week, Yorkie returns to the bar and observes Kelly flirting with a different man. Yorkie and Kelly reunite in the bathroom, before returning to Kelly's bungalow to have sex. Yorkie admits it is the first time she has had sex with anyone. Kelly reveals she is bisexual, and that she was once married to a man.

The next week, Yorkie returns, looking for Kelly. She spots Wes, who advises her to "try a different time." Yorkie visits the 1990s, and then finds Kelly in the 2000s, but Kelly rebuffs her advances. After Yorkie leaves the bar, Kelly follows and confesses that she is dying, and that she avoided Yorkie because she feared making a genuine connection with anyone in San Junipero. The two engage in sexual activity again; Kelly tells Yorkie she wants to meet her in real life. Yorkie is hesitant at first, but at Kelly's urging, tells Kelly her location.

It is revealed that San Junipero is a simulated reality in which the elderly are permitted to visit for up to five hours per week, and the deceased can live in permanently; in this reality, they have the body of a younger version of themselves, and cannot die or feel pain unless they choose to. Back in the physical world, an elderly Kelly (Denise Burse) visits Yorkie. Yorkie, surviving via life support, was paralyzed 40 years prior after running her car off the road, despondent after being rejected by her parents when she came out to them as gay. Yorkie wishes to be euthanised so that she can live in San Junipero full time, but as her family has religious objections to her being removed from life support, she intends to marry her nurse Greg (Raymond McAnally) so he can sign off on her euthanisation. Kelly offers to marry Yorkie instead; Yorkie enthusiastically accepts, and Kelly subsequently authorises Yorkie's euthanasia.

Yorkie asks Kelly to join her full-time. Though Kelly does not believe in heaven, she plans to die without being uploaded to San Junipero; her husband of 49 years, Richard, chose to die in the same way, because their daughter Alison died at age 39 before San Junipero existed. Yorkie and Kelly argue, and Kelly leaves in her Jeep, which she crashes on purpose. Yorkie runs after her and catches up to her, and at that very moment, Kelly's virtual body disappears, her time having ended for the week in San Junipero.

Time passes, and the real Kelly's health continues to worsen. She elects to become euthanized and her body is buried alongside her husband and daughter; meanwhile, her consciousness is uploaded to San Junipero, where she happily reunites with Yorkie.

Production

"San Junipero" is the fourth episode of the third series; all six episodes in this series were released on Netflix simultaneously on 21 October 2016. Whilst series one and two of Black Mirror were shown on Channel 4 in the UK, Netflix commissioned the series for 12 episodes (split into two series of six episodes) in September 2015,[1] and in March 2016 it outbid Channel 4 for the rights to distributing the third series, with a bid of $40 million.[2] Due to its move to Netflix, the show had a larger budget than in previous series,[3] and a larger episode order which allowed the show to vary its genre and tone more than previous series.[4] Alongside "Nosedive", "San Junipero" was first shown in 2016 ahead of its Netflix release at the Toronto International Film Festival.[5]

I'd read people saying, 'Oh no! It's going to get all American!' so I said, fuck it, I'm going to set it in California, fuck you, I'll choose protagonists that wouldn't necessarily leap into my head, and I'll explore a hopeful use of technology to shut up people who think it's written by the Unabomber.

Charlie Brooker, Interview with The Daily Beast.[6]

"San Junipero" was the first episode written for series three;[7] authored by Charlie Brooker, it was part of "a conscious attempt [...] to blow up what the show was".[8] The concept of the episode originated in an idea about technology being used to determine whether an afterlife exists.[6] However, Brooker later became inspired by nostalgia therapy for older people; Brooker had "kept saying [he wanted] to do an episode that's set in the past",[7] and wrote "San Junipero" as a period episode.[9] Director Owen Harris described the 1980s as a "period in life that was really optimistic".[10]

In the initial draft, the love story was between a heterosexual couple, but Brooker changed it because he thought this gave the episode an extra resonance, as same-sex marriage was not legal in 1987.[9] Brooker told The Daily Beast that in the rough treatment, the episode ended at the scene where Kelly and Yorkie meet in the hospital, but "when I sat down to actually write it, I was enjoying it so much that I thought, No, I'm going to keep going!"[6] He claims to have written the script for the episode in four days.[11] One draft of the episode contained a scene where Kelly visits a kindergarten in San Junipero, full of children who had died, but it was removed because "it was too sad and too poignant of a note to hit in that story", though Brooker notes that he "kept thinking about how [the scene] felt like a whole world in and of itself".[12] The episode was set in California, as another way to "upend" people's preconceptions of Black Mirror.[6] One reviewer noted that "San Junipero" contained "only American characters".[5]

The episode's director was Owen Harris, who previously directed the series two episode "Be Right Back"[5] – an episode which he described as "strangely similar" to this one as both are "relationship-led".[10]

Brooker was involved in the choice of arcade games for the set; he was a teenager during the 1980s and has worked as a video game journalist, so he has an interest in the topic.[8] He chose the year 1987 "fairly arbitrarily", and mentioned "very specific movie posters" in the script. Brooker put together a playlist of music from 1987 on Spotify.[13] The song "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle (which plays at the beginning, and over the end credits of the episode) was on the playlist; he first heard it while running, and knew the song would be perfect for the final scene, admitting in an interview he would have been "absolutely distraught" if they were unable to use it.[9] Each song had to be cleared for roughly 15 years for Netflix; every song in the playlist was cleared other than a track by Prince. "Girlfriend in a Coma" by The Smiths features in the episode "for about five seconds", yet according to Brooker, it cost "an outrageous amount of money! It was like shoveling bank notes into a fire". Executive producer Annabel Jones notes that "it was indulgent but at the same time, it was so important that we set up that era so it felt different".[13] The song "C'est La Vie" by Robbie Nevil was chosen by Harris; it was "one of the first singles that [he] ever bought".[10]

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who plays Kelly, had heard of the show but not seen any episodes when she received the script from her agent, though she did watch "Be Right Back" before the shoot. Mbatha-Raw read the entirety of the script as soon as she received it, on a bus journey from Oxford Circus to Brixton.[14]

According to Mbatha-Raw, the episode was shot in a three week period, with a week shooting in London and another week in Cape Town, South Africa.[6] She described the shoot as "very rapid", saying they "didn't really have much time to rehearse" and that there was no read-through.[14] Harris says that Cape Town "has these really rich, beautiful settings. [...] Suddenly you could create a version of California that felt slightly heightened because of this slightly strange quality."[10] Mbatha-Raw states that almost every scene was shot at night or dusk, particularly the exterior scenes.[15] Harris claims that during the shooting of the argument on the beach between Kelly and Yorkie in their wedding dresses, "this incredible mist rolled in from the ocean and it turned into this really beautiful scene", which caused "some challenges, but it gave us some really lovely texture".[10] Mbatha-Raw recalls an ostrich walking onto the beach during one filming session.[16]

Ending and future

The episode was originally intended to have an unhappy ending.[9] Brooker told The Daily Beast that in the rough treatment, the episode ended at the scene where Kelly and Yorkie meet in the hospital, but "when I sat down to actually write it, I was enjoying it so much that I thought, No, I'm going to keep going!"[6] He had an idea for the ending "where you saw them in loads of different eras", such as the 1920s.[17]

In response to a Reddit post speculating that Kelly is simulated for Yorkie's benefit, rather than really there, Brooker replied "Wrong! They are together",[18] and comments that "They have the happiest ending imaginable. [...] it's not a big rainbow sandwich, but what appears to be happening there, is happening there."[17]

Brooker has repeatedly stated that there are no plans for a sequel episode to "San Junipero". He told the Los Angeles Times that "we want to keep [Kelly and Yorkie] happy there".[8] However, Brooker has said that the show "may be referring to San Junipero again" in Easter eggs, which the show has used before.[12]

Marketing

The Netflix spoof "Orange Is the New Black Mirror" is a crossover between this episode and Orange is the New Black, featuring characters Poussey and Taystee from the latter reunited in San Junipero.[8]

Critical reception

"San Junipero" is considered by many reviewers to be the best Black Mirror episode of the season. Irish Independent reviewer Pat Stacey gave the episode five out of five stars, calling it the best of the first four episodes in the third series. Stacey opined that the episode has "ingenious twists", is "essentially a tender love story that transcends time and consciousness" and was "astonishingly well-realised, beautifully acted by Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis, and ultimately extremely moving."[19] Writing for The New York Times, James Poniewozik said the episode was the best of the third season, and "also the biggest departure", as it is set in the past and has a "bittersweet and moving — even hopeful" tone.[4] David Sims of The Atlantic notes that "this season's darkest hour is followed by its most optimistic", referring to the dark tone of "Shut Up and Dance", and says that this episode "was easily [his] favorite" of Black Mirror' third season. Sims praised that "Davis and Mbatha-Raw have such instant, lived-in chemistry, and convey a whole lifetime of angst and desires in just a few interactions".[20] Adam Chitwood, reviewing the episode for Collider, described it as the "best episode of the season".[21] Chitwood says that the episode "begins promisingly enough, but fairly early on I began to feel like I had figured out the classic Black Mirror twist [...] I was wrong. The "twist" is not the point, and Davis and Mbatha-Raw deliver a pair of terrific performances here that build to a surprisingly emotional climax."[5] Matt Fowler of IGN also opined that "San Junipero" is the best episode of the season, calling it "marvelous", commending Mbatha-Raw and Davis for an "outstanding job" and summarising that "ultimately it's a love story that literally transcends consciousness".[22]

Mbatha-Raw and Davis' performances were almost universally lauded. Alex Mullane gave a positive review in Digital Spy, noting that "this is a sweet and touching tale that shows that Charlie Brooker and the format at large are capable of telling stories that don't necessarily rely on [...] bleak and shocking scenarios", saying that the episode's "revelations are not depicted as twists" and praising the episode's "fantastic performances from Mbatha-Raw and Davis" and "wonderfully tender score by Clint Mansell".[23] Benjamin Lee, of The Guardian, noted that the episode went to "surprising and ultimately poignant places" and said that Mbatha-Raw and Davis "impress with their emotional range". Lee gave the episode, along with "Nosedive", four out of five stars.[3] Caitlin Welsh of Junkee believes that the episode is the best of the season, and "hinges on two understated, pitch-perfect performances — Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw make their characters' connection feel completely real".[24] However, Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph gave the episode three out of five stars, criticising that "the central conceit has already been extensively explored in science fiction" and "Yorkie and Kelly rarely ring true", but praising that Mbatha-Raw "brings enough vivacity and conviction [...] for the proudly tearjerking ending to land".[25]

Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club gives "San Junipero" an A rating, writing "the hour is structured beautifully [...] part of the genius of the entry is that it holds information back just long enough to make sure we care about its two leads, but no longer". Handlen notes that the episode is the only Black Mirror episode with such a positive tone, saying "a small part of what makes 'San Junipero' so effective is all those hours leading up to it". Handlen summarises, "this is one of the best hours of television I’ve seen this year".[26] Georgia Welch of The Mancunion states that Brooker and Harris "have created something truly multi-faceted, offering two richly developed characters" and comments that "the subtle 80s synth score aids the strange and beguiling atmosphere of the location wonderfully, which combined with the soft pastel colour palette only adds to the magnetic, dream-like allure of this alternate reality".[27] Tim Goodman, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, praised the "emotional hook that will leave only the hardest heart not shedding tears".[28] Suchandrika Chakrabarti of Daily Mirror gave the episode three out of five stars in a review which called the episode a "major change of pace".[29]

Many critics have published rankings of the 13 episodes in Black Mirror's first three series, in which this episode is often among the top three. In Jacob Hall's list for /Film, "San Junipero" appears first, described as "a remarkable love story between two women [...] told in a way that only Black Mirror could accomplish" and praised for being "the show's finest hour and proof that the series is more than misery and darkness".[30] The Wrap's ranking also features the episode in first place, as it is "visually stunning, joyous to watch for anyone with any sense of '80s nostalgia -- and makes you grateful for life and love".[31] Additionally, Christian Bone of WhatCulture places the episode first, opining that it is "one of the most beautiful and affirming episodes of television in a while" and "a big reason for that is its willingness to try something new".[32]

Adam David of CNN Philippines rates the episode second-best, saying that it made him cry; David writes that "it plays all its happy, sad, sci-fi, and romantic notes well" and notes that "this is the first [Black Mirror episode] that features a gay relationship".[33] James Hibberd of Entertainment Weekly ranks the episode third, writing "seldom has an episode of TV been more elevated by its final moments; the ending of 'San Junipero' marries humanity, technology, and nostalgia".[34] Mat Elfring of GameSpot also places the episode third, as it "is the only episode in the series that has warmth to it", and "it's easily the best episode from Season 3".[35] Corey Atad also rates the episode third-best in Esquire, due to the fact that "it's a beautiful story that will make you cry [...] anchored by excellent performances from Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis".[36]

However, other reviewers place this episode lower on their rankings. "San Junipero" appears fourth in Morgan Jeffery's list for Digital Spy, because "working both as a nostalgic blast of '80s music and styling [...] and as an effective, twisty-turny love story, it's perhaps the most upbeat and positive episode yet".[37] Charles Bramesco of Vulture places the episode fifth, summarising that "this elliptical romance is the rare installment that warms the heart instead of injecting it with poison", and calling its resolution "ingenious".[38] Aubrey Page of Collider puts the episode seventh, as "works largely due to its perfectly cast pair of leads" but "the episode is hurt by its surprising lack of originality".[39] Ninth in Andrew Wallenstein's list for Variety, "San Junipero" is described as "perhaps the most satisfyingly daring tonal shift" for the series; Mbatha-Raw and Davis' characters relationships are said to not "pack the emotional punch that this crowd-pleaser needs to truly shine".[40]

Other reviewers ranked the six episodes in the third series from best to worst. In Forbes's list, authored by Paul Tassi, "San Junipero" is placed first; Tassi comments that the storyline is "compelling on a human level" and that Mbatha-Raw and Davis' performances are the best in the season.[41] The Independent's ranking places the episode fifth, with Jacob Stolworthy reviewing that it is the "most ambitious episode" but "sadly, the overloaded third act creaks at the seams". Stolworthy suggests that "perhaps this was the episode to give the extra 30 minutes, and not 'Hated in the Nation'".[42]

Awards

In 2017, "San Junipero" won two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as a BAFTA Television Craft Award. It has also won or been nominated for several other accolades:

Award Category Recipients Result Reference
BAFTA Television Craft Awards Best Make Up and Hair Design Tanya Lodge Won [43]
Best Costume Design Susie Coulthard Won
Art Directors Guild Awards Excellence in Production Design for a Television Movie or Limited Series Joel Collins, James Foster and Nicholas Palmer
(Also nominated for "Nosedive" and "Playtest".)
Nominated [44]
Cinema Audio Society Awards Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Movies and Mini-Series Adrian Bell, Martin Jensen, Philip Clements and Rory de Carteret Nominated [45]
IGN Awards Best TV Episode "San Junipero" Won [46]
GLAAD Media Awards Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBT character) "San Junipero" Won [47]
Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Charlie Brooker, Owen Harris Nominated [48]
Diversity in Media Awards TV Moment of the Year "San Junipero" Nominated [49]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Television Movie Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones and Laurie Borg Won [50]
Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Charlie Brooker Won

References

  1. ^ Birnbaum, Debra. "'Black Mirror' Lands at Netflix". Variety.
  2. ^ Plunkett, John (29 March 2016). "Netflix deals Channel 4 knockout blow over Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror". The Guardian.
  3. ^ a b "Black Mirror review – Charlie Brooker's splashy new series is still a sinister marvel". The Guardian. 16 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  4. ^ a b Poniewozik, James (20 October 2016). "Review: 'Black Mirror' Finds Terror, and Soul, in the Machine". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "'Black Mirror' Season 3 Review: "San Junipero" and "Nosedive" Are a Sunny Start". Collider. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Stern, Marlow (27 November 2016). "Inside 'San Junipero': The Magical 'Black Mirror' Episode That Will Help Take Your Mind Off Trump". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  7. ^ a b Mellor, Louisa (19 October 2016). "Black Mirror series 3 interview: Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones". Den of Geek!. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d Press, Joy (17 August 2017). "'Black Mirror's' rare glimpse of technology as a means to joy earns an Emmy nod". Los Angeles Times. Tronc. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  9. ^ a b c d James Hibberd (21 October 2016). "Black Mirror postmortem: Showrunner talks season 3 twists". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  10. ^ a b c d e Strause, Jackie (23 November 2016). "'Black Mirror' Director Shares His Take on "San Junipero's" Ending and Ideas for a Spinoff". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  11. ^ Watson, Alex (25 August 2017). "'I was really worried about San Junipero' – Charlie Brooker on pushing the Black Mirror envelope". i. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  12. ^ a b Moore, Sam (3 September 2017). "Charlie Brooker talks prospect of 'San Junipero' sequel episode on 'Black Mirror'". NME.
  13. ^ a b Strause, Jackie (3 September 2017). "'Black Mirror' Bosses on "San Junipero" Sequel and an Unpredictable Season 4". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  14. ^ a b Dibdin, Emma (28 October 2016). "Black Mirror's Gugu Mbatha-Raw on the Heartbreaking and Hopeful "San Junipero"". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  15. ^ Grobar, Matt (24 August 2017). "'Black Mirror' stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw & Mackenzie Davis On Immersive Sci-Fi Sets And Socially Important Storytelling". Deadline.
  16. ^ Jones, Ellen (20 October 2016). "Gugu Mbatha-Raw on Black Mirror: 'It was almost like a release - I just needed to express some joy'". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 20 September 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  17. ^ a b Garcia, Patricia (27 October 2016). "Black Mirror Creator Charlie Brooker on What Really Happened at the End of "San Junipero"". Vogue. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  18. ^ Puchko, Kristy (4 November 2016). "Black Mirror Creator Responds to San Junipero Fan Theory". Nerdist Industries. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  19. ^ Stacey, Pat (24 October 2016). "Black Mirror is back and it's as disturbing as ever... with a few minor cracks". Irish Independent. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  20. ^ Sims, David (21 October 2016). "Black Mirror's 'San Junipero' is the Standout of the Season". The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  21. ^ Adam Chitwood (4 October 2016). "Black Mirror Season 3 Review: The Future is Slightly Sunnier on Netflix". Collider. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  22. ^ Matt Fowler (19 October 2016). "Black Mirror Season 3 Review". IGN. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  23. ^ Mullane, Alex (23 October 2016). "Black Mirror season 3 'San Junipero' review: beautiful rather than biting". Digital Spy. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  24. ^ Welsh, Caitlin (25 October 2016). "A Guide To Binging 'Black Mirror' (If That's A Thing You Really Need To Do)". Junkee. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  25. ^ Collin, Robbie (21 October 2016). "Black Mirror, season 3, San Junipero, review: 'Charlie Brooker's dark sci-fi has never felt bigger'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  26. ^ Handlen, Zack (24 October 2016). "Black Mirror finds love (and a great episode) in a hopeful place". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  27. ^ Welch, Georgia (8 November 2016). "Black Mirror S3E04 — San Junipero: Review". The Mancunion. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  28. ^ Tim Goodman (15 September 2016). "Black Mirror Season 3: TV Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  29. ^ Chakrabarti, Suchandrika (19 September 2017). "San Junipero review: Black Mirror takes us on a coming-of-age trip to an American beach town, where everything disappears at midnight". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  30. ^ Hall, Jacob (28 October 2016). "Through a Touchscreen Darkly: Every 'Black Mirror' Episode Ranked". /Film. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  31. ^ Donnelly, Matt; Molloy, Tim. "All 13 'Black Mirror' Episodes Ranked, From Good to Mind-Blowing (Photos)". TheWrap. Retrieved 22 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  32. ^ Bone, Christian (4 November 2016). "Black Mirror: Ranking Every Episode From Worst To Best". WhatCulture. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  33. ^ David, Adam (24 October 2016). "How to watch all 'Black Mirror' episodes, from worst to best". CNN Philippines. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  34. ^ Hibberd, James (23 October 2016). "Black Mirror: All 13 Episodes, Ranked". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  35. ^ Elfring, Mat (28 October 2016). "Black Mirror: Every Episode Ranked From Good to Best". GameSpot. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  36. ^ Atad, Corey (24 October 2016). "Every Episode of Black Mirror, Ranked". Esquire. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  37. ^ Jeffery, Morgan (9 April 2017). "Ranking all 13 episodes of Charlie Brooker's chilling Black Mirror". Digital Spy. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  38. ^ Bramesco, Charles (21 October 2016). "Every Episode of Black Mirror, Ranked From Worst to Best". Vulture. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  39. ^ Page, Aubrey (28 October 2016). "Every 'Black Mirror' Episode Ranked From Worst to Best". Collider.com. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  40. ^ Wallenstein, Andrew (21 October 2016). "'Black Mirror' Episodes Ranked: Spoiler-Free Guide to Seasons 1-3". Variety. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  41. ^ Tassi, Paul (25 October 2016). "Ranking 'Black Mirror' Season 3's Episodes From Worst To Best". Forbes. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  42. ^ Stolworthy, Jacob; Hooton, Christopher (21 October 2016). "Black Mirror review: The season 3 episodes, ranked". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  43. ^ "Television Craft Awards Winners 2017". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  44. ^ Hipes, Patrick. "Art Directors Guild Awards Nominations: 'Rogue One', 'Game Of Thrones' & More". Deadline. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  45. ^ Petski, Denise. "'La La Land', 'Rogue One', 'Hacksaw Ridge' Among Cinema Audio Society Nominees". Deadline. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  46. ^ "Best TV Episode". IGN. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  47. ^ "GLAAD Media Awards: Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  48. ^ "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  49. ^ "Shortlisted Creative". Diversity in Media Awards. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  50. ^ "69th Emmy Award Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 20 September 2017.>