junipero

San Junipero is not much different from many of the other stories who approach this topic.

It'll be like that San Junipero episode of Black Mirror - immortality in a dark way.

They'd rather pay outrageous prices to eat in Junipero than get on a dirty train.

San Junipero ends by showing us the entirety of what is actually happening, for-real, which is an automated computer-maintenance system keeping itself running.

In the Bay Area we had the statues of Ulysses Grant [1], Francis Key [2], and Junipero Serra [3] removed.

The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Then we got to Junipero Serra Blvd and she didn't stop at the red light.

The author probably only has San Junipero fresh in their mind.

I got used to it pretty quickly, and in San Junipero you'd have a lot longer to get used to it.

San Junipero is a corporation promising you life after death.

She showed me San Junipero and Hang the DJ.

But San Junipero in Black Mirror itself made no claim, and the writers place a lot of not so subtle hints as to the idea that it isn't.

Does this mean that the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero” is one step closer to becoming reality?

There's that hole conversation with Greg about how the timelimit exists so people don't kill themselves to permanently leave the world behind and "live" in San Junipero forever.

"San Junipero" I think was the kind of black mirror episode that black mirror always should have done.

Which is weird because Hang the DJ is one of the few Black Mirror episodes that’s uplifting, alongside San Junipero.

Isn't it depressing that San Junipero, arguably the only happy episode, has the lowest progress score?

Example: Some people think San Junipero, the one positive Black Mirror episode with an actual Happily Ever After romantic ending is a dystopian vision.