The thing about "White Bear" is that when they wiped that girl's entire memory, they essentially killed the person who murdered that little girl. What they are torturing is a brand new, confused person. The murderer got to escape into the void of death without having to face any torture and this new person has to pay the price for it. If they punished the murderous person, there would be the sense of retribution of the murderer knowing why they are receiving this punishment. They are not torturing the murderer, they are torturing the shell that held the murderer, which is now inhabited by a soul that has not consciously done any crimes.
Exactly, like the person they’re torturing isn’t even really the person that did the crime. They’re torturing a blank slate of her. And punishment should be to teach, not for everyone else to get pleasure out of it. That’s a problem in all of the US, we punish for the sake of it instead of doing so with a goal.
This just takes the episode conversation even deeper and makes it more nuanced. I’m glad you brought this up because it was something I hadn’t initially considered. It brings up more questions. What makes a person a person? Is it their body? Their memories/ consciousness? As you said, it seems pretty unethical to torture someone who doesn’t have a clue what they did, though the fact remains that they technically DID do it. At the end of the day, when we search for justice, WHO are we really doing it for? That person is dead and as far as we know, whatever happens here after their death is unknown and irrelevant to them. This sounds like a college discussion board😂 but I love when people pose questions that make me think even further
@@kaybee2199 well consider this too - if they wanted to torture her in order to truly teach her a lesson, why would they wipe her memory again? It would be like sending a person to jail for a year, but you wipe their memory EACH day - at the end of the year, it will have felt like to them that they spent only a day in jail. AKA The memory wipe erases all the punishment she just endured, so they can reset it all for the next set of park visitors. If the goal was to PUNISH her, they'd just let the days of torture accumulate in her mind the way the LENGTH of a prison sentence is used to punish a prisoner. But with every memory wipe, all the retribution spent on her is made into nothing. So how much do they really give a shit about retribution?
@@danwilliams2551 They absolutely don't give a shit about retribution, it's all about getting sadistic pleasure out of torturing someone and patting themselves in the back by saying "it's ok she's a murderer so we're justified in doing that". Those people are actually even worse than what she used to be because they're so self-righteous and shameless.
"San Junipero" feels like a breath of fresh air, giving how it's one of the more hopeful instalments, the two protagonists are likable enough, and you want to see them get a happy ending, which they ultimately do.
I love that Trin mentioned ending explained channels. I also love them even if I fully got the plot. It’s just nice hearing someone talk about something you like, especially if you don’t have friends to discuss your interests. You can hear new ideas and in general feel validated in thoughts you’ve had.
I watched Shut Up and Dance in my college dorm with a friend and I remember the entire time we were talking about how being caught masterbating doesn't seem that awful compared to all that he is required to do. The entire episode we just debated how we would react to getting caught masterbating and then getting blackmailed. I will NEVER forget the look on my friends face (that I'm sure was on my face) when everything was revealed.
The first time I watched this episode, i thought his reaction actually made sense(until the end was revealed). i live in China, and here, sex is this forbidden taboo topic. Chinese beauty standards and views on sex is almost comically outdated, so being caught masturbating, especially for relatively young, is absolutely mortifying
I watched it just recently, and I actually kind of suspected it to be the end, but they really went a step ahead and released it anyway and I think that's the real winner.
Them putting San Junipero right after Shut Up and Dance in season 3 is probably one of the nicest things they could have done and I will forever be grateful for it!
At first I didn’t understand why Kenny needed to rob the bank, even til the “prize money” part, like why can’t the hackers source the prize money themselves. But now I realise that it was so that Kenny could get arrested without the hackers ratting themselves out to the police by showing that they made their own website that gives people a virus.
@@alaynastrange6392 I think the bank robbery was so that they had a reason to send the police after Kenny. It's easier to say to the police "I saw the getaway car go up this hill", than to tell them there's a deathmatch happening.
i still think they did too much... maybe just leaking the videos would be better. I mean even with Kenny, its not like it was his choice to be attracted to kids and he didn't harm anyone by looking at those pictures. Please correct me if i'm wrong tho
Black Mirror is one of those shows I CANNOT watch alone and not necessarily because it’s scary. The episodes fuck my brain up and I absolutely love being able to discuss the them with someone. This is a show I have to watch with AT LEAST one other person because I get so mad when I watch something that’s psychologically stirring and gets my brain going and I have to just talk to myself or watch “Ending Explained” videos like noooo we need to have a full college-level discussion on this shit. I also kinda wish I could watch some episodes in theaters just to experience us all being like “what the fuck” collectively. I got excited just watching Trin watch these few episodes and discuss them😂
Same! My husband was kind of traumatized from a certain episode from season 1, which made him promise he’d never watch more. I got him to watch an episode for my birthday (USS Callister). Now a friend of ours is in from France, our guest, and she asked to watch it. He’s watched several episodes now and I think I’ve got him to finally realize it’s an ANTHOLOGY show, so those pig-#^%*ers can’t show up again and make him really uncomfortable, horrified, and sad. I’m SO HAPPY I finally get to watch it with people and see what they think!!! It’s WEIRDLY important to me! 😅
i really feel you on this. none of my friends are really movie or tvshow fanatics that just watch psychologically disturbing movies or movies that dont spell out what the movie is meant to be about. and i just end up talking to myself about the endings and like really just going in deep, hand gestures and everything. so i hope that one day i will find someone who i can do this with ahaha.
@AmaraJordanMusic Agree with your husband, I can’t watch that episode either. Black Mirror is very uneven - some eps are world class, and others are just bad.
The entire 3rd season of black mirror is the best honestly. shut up and dance is insane, so is playtest, nosedive is scary as fuck and real, and san junipero makes me sad. men against fire is also insane, and probably true to life in 30 years
The thing I love about “White Bear” is that it also makes the audience question whether torture is an ethical form of retribution. While what the woman did was abhorrent, to what extent are those that torture her or are spectators in it not just as repulsive?
The spectators and the justice system around it is torturing her, and even torturing her with her mind wiped. So they are pretty much torturing an innocent person as entertainment. No justice to be found there.
This is one of those shows that i wish i could experience for the first time again. Its just so unlike anything ive watched before and i love how deep and thought provoking it can be
the hacker made them do the robbery to make sure they had commit at least another crime so that they definitely go down for, same for the murder. Because we’ve seen how they treat offenders and the lack of justice, essentially they wanted to make sure he got a max sentence.
time stamps of the different BM episodes: 1:15 - White Bear (season 2 ep 2) 12:23 - Shut Up and Dance (season 3 ep 3) 24:31 - San Junipero (season 3 ep 4)
"Shut Up and Dance" is the first episode I saw from Black Mirror and it made my jaw drop, I did not expect it to be that intense and didn't expect the twist at the end.
you being ill at watching white bear again is so validating to me because everyone praises that episode so so much but i rewatched it recently and it made me so uncomfortable and sick and have an intense panic attack (to be fair, the panic attack was also partially brought on by something else happening at the same time) and it made me realize the episode is un-re-watchable if that makes sense. like i can never see it again
Shut Up and Dance is crazy when you watch it a second time. It’s crazy. The National Anthem is one that really stuck with me. It’s not so tech heavy but more about how unaware we become of our surroundings when we’re glued to our smart devices. All of it could have been avoided if people weren’t too busy watching the PM. And The Entire History of You is another one that I still think about.
Entire History of You is always the one I recommend first - I’ve always said how I wish I could rewatch all the good memories I’ve had and that episode completely changed my mind and made me realise the horror that could come from it!
omg finally someone gets it literally every single time i watch an episode of black mirror i automatically look up ending explained afterwards it’s just routine atp
in "shut up and dance," i read somewhere that the hackers made them rob the bank to add to their jail time/ensure that they would be imprisoned. i think if the hackers sent the cops a video of him being a pedo, they might not have gone and arrested him with that much backup. i actually dont know if i read this somewhere or just made that up but thats what i think
That’s what happened in “Promising Young Women” they had to get predatory folks charged for other crimes because sadly the initial ones aren’t taken seriously so it’s a social commentary on how fcked up the justice is a lot of the time.
The "Shut up and Dance" episode was the hackers getting the guy to do all these outlandish tasks such as robbing the bank, fighting to the death to show that all the actions he had done will not erase his own actions. He tries so hard to get the hackers to delete the video, but at the end of the day he was just living out his punishment. No amount of money or bribes could have saved him, the hackers goal was to show that his desperation meant nothing compared to what he needed to get exposed for.
None of the black mirror episodes are connected! They are all their own short film with different story lines, so you’re able to watch in any order you want!
@@Winniesingss I know, I’ve watched other seasons. I just haven’t watched the ones she’s talking about. I usually just watch reaction videos because I don’t have time to sit and watch full movies/tv shows
The first ever BM episode I watched was Nosedive. I had no idea what BM was either. After the episode was done, I said 'what the heck am I watching?' then watched all of them throughout the week. So fun & mind bending.
lol i JUST rewatched shut up and dance yesterday. such a good episode it'll be fun to watch it along a bit with you here! you're so right about watching it again after seeing it a first time because it changes the WHOLE experience. your whole reaction was mine too yesterday lol. the acting and premise was just on point
would love 2 see more black mirror in the future from u! specifically would love if u included eps like nosedive, crocodile (lowkey has a similar plot structure to white bear & shut up and dance), & hated in the nation
You are so great at analyzing! 🙂 I loved it! I’m glad you’re a fan and are able to talk in depth! My favorite episodes/high-rated episodes were in Season 4 (USS Callister, Hang the DJ, and Black Museum). It’d be interesting to see an analysis on one of those 😊
I know, that in a first one the main character is a bad guy, but re-watching it *knowing* that all the people there punishing her again and again and again is just devastating and I think that they not really better, than her or maybe even worse for feeding into this sick-minded game I agree, that at the beginning she doesn't look like she cares about, what she did and they wanted to teach her a lesson, but I still think, that what they are doing is cruel and inhuman still an amazing episode and an incredibly hard watch edit: the second one is a good episode, really liked it at the beginning, but it didn't stuck to me and san junipero is just one comfy episode, love to rewatch it, when I'm feeling down (also the concept very interesting and I do think, that eternal life is double sided, but still love the ability of living, even if you're not able to move/function like you did before, while also looking like you did at your peak years) also san junipero breakdown is so real (this is me every time I rewatch it)
The bank robbery is more of a nod to how far are you willing to go to keep your dirty secrets. Then in the end the prize of getting through the trial just to still have your secrets revealed it so justified.
first off i wanna say i’m so glad someone didn’t get shut up and dance the first time bc i feel very upset i didn’t get the first like shock and needed someone to point it out to me so i’m glad i’m not alone and i’m pretty sure i might be wrong but i think they robbed the bank just so they had more crimes to get him like more incriminated
The way i've always viewed shut up & dance is that the hackers made sure that he was locked up forever. Sex crimes against children (at least in the US) are not given appropriate punishment, and they are likely to reoffend.
Omg, I finally get to share the pain of these first 2 episodes with someone 😂😂😂. But for real, I binged black mirror and then had to stop at "shut up and dance" because it gave me an existential crisis. I eventually came back for San Junipero and stopped again.
No fr, I was on a binge and shut up and dance made me put this show down for WEEKS okay? No other episode fucked me up that badly like, even ones that were scarier or sadder or weirder, this one hit me the hardest
@@ayannabranchcomb7535 I literally felt a pit of dread that made me sick. It took me longer than weeks to come back to the show, or any other show that wasn't about sunshine and rainbows 😂😂😂.
I believe “White Christmas” & “Hang the DJ” are the top rated episodes and then comes “Black Museum” alongside “San Junipero” which come in 3rd. For “Shut up and Dance” there are 7 episodes rated higher and for “White Bear” there are 10 episodes rated higher and another 2 rated the same.
I've read in several comments that San Junipero is so popular because of the gay relationship plot. Although I understand the logic in this opinion, I think San Junipero is one of the most thought-provoking episodes of the Black Mirror universe even without this thread. Yes, Yorkie's story and the Yorkie-Kelly relationship undoubtedly add a layer to the story but the concept of the virtual consciousness is so interesting and controversial in itself that I remember we talked about this part even years later. I liked the visual style too because of my connection to the 80s. I still rank SJ as one of the top 5 episodes. Fun fact that it was originally written for a hetero couple and the ending would not have been quasi-positive.
I wish I didn’t know all the endings to black mirror episodes before watching them😭 I went through a whole ending explained phase and I’ve never watched the show
I remember so distinctly the first time that i watched 'shut up and dance' i felt so phsically sick and had to just sit in the dark and couldnt watch black mirror for a few days after. I felt nauseated again even watching this review! San junipero was truly a heartwarming welcome back when i did continue again! Such a relief! Love your reactions, so funny. ❤
I love your videos trin. Your way of putting film into perspective for viewers is my favorite. Your pov is amazing and I also relate. never stop making reaction content love u 💘
I wish i could watch shut up and dance for the first time again but with someone because the way my stomach dropped when the confrontation happened… I instantly got it actually horrifying
White Bear and Shut Up and Dance will always be my top two favorite episodes. The narrative twists in them are such gut punches and you really don’t expect either one.
I always thought the reason for the bank robbery was to keep him from getting away like even though he made it to the end the police were going to put multiple charges on him? I haven’t watched this since it came out but I remember police were coming in from the distance
San Junipero is the best short sf I’ve ever seen on TV, and I’ve been watching science fiction for 40 years. Even after seeing it numerous times, the waterworks still come. Oh, and we love Greg ❤️
ur point of wanting to have watched shut up and dance for the first time with a huge group of ppl... I LOVE IT cause most black mirror episodes i WISH i could've seen in theaters somehow omg
San Junipero: One reason you wouldn't want to "pass over" is touched on in the episode. The whole idea of the Quagmire. At the bitter end, you have a rather distressing dilemma. Do you commit suicide and voluntarily switch off? Or do you become one of the "sad fucks" in the Quagmire resorting to more and more extreme acts it _feel_ something. Ultimately, even that isn't going to last forever. So, you have only one option... And that's the best outcome. The other way to look at it is the ultimate teleporter type issue. And what constitutes _you_. We see the physical body get buried. And a simulation of you springs up, but is that really you. Or cynically have you just been reduced to an NPC behaving like a human for the "visitors"? So, when you dig a bit deeper, this happy, bubbly episode can get quite deep and dark.
Has anyone noticed that in Shut up and Dance, during the scene where Kenny gives the little girl the toy at the restaurant at 13:30, the song ''That's the way I like it'' by KC and the Sunshine band plays in the background...While Kenny is smiling at the little girl. Very clever foreshadowing right there.
first time watching shut up and dance I literally got to the end when he’s asked how old they were and I was like ‘nono he’s not like you, tell him- TELL HIM IT WAS NORMAL - oh. oh no’ took a sec for the penny to drop…
for shut up and dance, they made him rob the bank so he would be further incriminated. It also no doubt caused a lot of distress for the main character which they would want.
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The thing about "White Bear" is that when they wiped that girl's entire memory, they essentially killed the person who murdered that little girl. What they are torturing is a brand new, confused person. The murderer got to escape into the void of death without having to face any torture and this new person has to pay the price for it. If they punished the murderous person, there would be the sense of retribution of the murderer knowing why they are receiving this punishment. They are not torturing the murderer, they are torturing the shell that held the murderer, which is now inhabited by a soul that has not consciously done any crimes.
Exactly, like the person they’re torturing isn’t even really the person that did the crime. They’re torturing a blank slate of her. And punishment should be to teach, not for everyone else to get pleasure out of it. That’s a problem in all of the US, we punish for the sake of it instead of doing so with a goal.
This just takes the episode conversation even deeper and makes it more nuanced. I’m glad you brought this up because it was something I hadn’t initially considered. It brings up more questions. What makes a person a person? Is it their body? Their memories/ consciousness? As you said, it seems pretty unethical to torture someone who doesn’t have a clue what they did, though the fact remains that they technically DID do it. At the end of the day, when we search for justice, WHO are we really doing it for? That person is dead and as far as we know, whatever happens here after their death is unknown and irrelevant to them. This sounds like a college discussion board😂 but I love when people pose questions that make me think even further
@@kaybee2199 well consider this too - if they wanted to torture her in order to truly teach her a lesson, why would they wipe her memory again? It would be like sending a person to jail for a year, but you wipe their memory EACH day - at the end of the year, it will have felt like to them that they spent only a day in jail. AKA The memory wipe erases all the punishment she just endured, so they can reset it all for the next set of park visitors. If the goal was to PUNISH her, they'd just let the days of torture accumulate in her mind the way the LENGTH of a prison sentence is used to punish a prisoner. But with every memory wipe, all the retribution spent on her is made into nothing. So how much do they really give a shit about retribution?
@@danwilliams2551 They absolutely don't give a shit about retribution, it's all about getting sadistic pleasure out of torturing someone and patting themselves in the back by saying "it's ok she's a murderer so we're justified in doing that". Those people are actually even worse than what she used to be because they're so self-righteous and shameless.
Literally it’s not a damn punishment if the person being punished doesn’t know why they are being punished because their memory keeps getting wipes
Trin and mother Ash posting Black Mirror videos on the same day is what I need in this day of chaos❤
Literally SAME!!! ❤
exactlyy!!!!!
id live to see a little collab for my two babes
YESS
A nice little break from the toxic gossip train 🤗
"San Junipero" feels like a breath of fresh air, giving how it's one of the more hopeful instalments, the two protagonists are likable enough, and you want to see them get a happy ending, which they ultimately do.
That’s not a happy ending…
@@Botatochicken how is it not a happy ending? The girls drive off into the sunset in love how is that not happy
@@randomthing4569 probably never experienced love thats why
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@@sweetsour100never explained love?
I love that Trin mentioned ending explained channels. I also love them even if I fully got the plot. It’s just nice hearing someone talk about something you like, especially if you don’t have friends to discuss your interests. You can hear new ideas and in general feel validated in thoughts you’ve had.
totally agree! i also love reading the comments on the videos to get everyone elses input too
I watched Shut Up and Dance in my college dorm with a friend and I remember the entire time we were talking about how being caught masterbating doesn't seem that awful compared to all that he is required to do. The entire episode we just debated how we would react to getting caught masterbating and then getting blackmailed. I will NEVER forget the look on my friends face (that I'm sure was on my face) when everything was revealed.
Masterbating
The first time I watched this episode, i thought his reaction actually made sense(until the end was revealed). i live in China, and here, sex is this forbidden taboo topic. Chinese beauty standards and views on sex is almost comically outdated, so being caught masturbating, especially for relatively young, is absolutely mortifying
I watched it just recently, and I actually kind of suspected it to be the end, but they really went a step ahead and released it anyway and I think that's the real winner.
Them putting San Junipero right after Shut Up and Dance in season 3 is probably one of the nicest things they could have done and I will forever be grateful for it!
At first I didn’t understand why Kenny needed to rob the bank, even til the “prize money” part, like why can’t the hackers source the prize money themselves. But now I realise that it was so that Kenny could get arrested without the hackers ratting themselves out to the police by showing that they made their own website that gives people a virus.
i thought that was the purpose of the drone filming kenny kill the other guy. thats seems worse than robbing a bank
@@alaynastrange6392 I think the bank robbery was so that they had a reason to send the police after Kenny. It's easier to say to the police "I saw the getaway car go up this hill", than to tell them there's a deathmatch happening.
The hacker was just trying to incriminate them, they didn't need the money from the robbery. they wanted to ruin their lives
Iconic..
i still think they did too much... maybe just leaking the videos would be better. I mean even with Kenny, its not like it was his choice to be attracted to kids and he didn't harm anyone by looking at those pictures. Please correct me if i'm wrong tho
@alemobra5747 you basically just said it's OK to be attracted to kids 🤢 disgusting
@@alemobra5747he is still a pedophile ..
@@alemobra5747”it’s not like it was his choice” huh?? Bro I hope you were joking when you said this cause this is an insane thing to type ngl
Black Mirror is one of those shows I CANNOT watch alone and not necessarily because it’s scary. The episodes fuck my brain up and I absolutely love being able to discuss the them with someone. This is a show I have to watch with AT LEAST one other person because I get so mad when I watch something that’s psychologically stirring and gets my brain going and I have to just talk to myself or watch “Ending Explained” videos like noooo we need to have a full college-level discussion on this shit. I also kinda wish I could watch some episodes in theaters just to experience us all being like “what the fuck” collectively. I got excited just watching Trin watch these few episodes and discuss them😂
ur so real- I love the topics that black mirror it brings up seriously profound conversations about society and morals !!
Same! My husband was kind of traumatized from a certain episode from season 1, which made him promise he’d never watch more. I got him to watch an episode for my birthday (USS Callister).
Now a friend of ours is in from France, our guest, and she asked to watch it. He’s watched several episodes now and I think I’ve got him to finally realize it’s an ANTHOLOGY show, so those pig-#^%*ers can’t show up again and make him really uncomfortable, horrified, and sad.
I’m SO HAPPY I finally get to watch it with people and see what they think!!! It’s WEIRDLY important to me! 😅
i really feel you on this. none of my friends are really movie or tvshow fanatics that just watch psychologically disturbing movies or movies that dont spell out what the movie is meant to be about. and i just end up talking to myself about the endings and like really just going in deep, hand gestures and everything. so i hope that one day i will find someone who i can do this with ahaha.
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Agree with your husband, I can’t watch that episode either. Black Mirror is very uneven - some eps are world class, and others are just bad.
The entire 3rd season of black mirror is the best honestly. shut up and dance is insane, so is playtest, nosedive is scary as fuck and real, and san junipero makes me sad. men against fire is also insane, and probably true to life in 30 years
don’t forget hated by the nation
The thing I love about “White Bear” is that it also makes the audience question whether torture is an ethical form of retribution. While what the woman did was abhorrent, to what extent are those that torture her or are spectators in it not just as repulsive?
The spectators and the justice system around it is torturing her, and even torturing her with her mind wiped. So they are pretty much torturing an innocent person as entertainment. No justice to be found there.
Nobody worth anything to society is questioning it pmsl There's disturbed people, and people who objectively know it isn't.
Trin watching San Junipero to end Pride Month is ICONIC 🌈🌈🌈
TRIN OMG!!!! PLEASE DO WHITE CHRISTMAS, HANG THE DJ, AND BLACK MUSEUM!!! I LITERALLY LOVE YOU FOR THIS!!!!
Maybe if I second this she will have no choice but to comply. Mayhaps
yess luv hang the dj
This is one of those shows that i wish i could experience for the first time again. Its just so unlike anything ive watched before and i love how deep and thought provoking it can be
the hacker made them do the robbery to make sure they had commit at least another crime so that they definitely go down for, same for the murder. Because we’ve seen how they treat offenders and the lack of justice, essentially they wanted to make sure he got a max sentence.
time stamps of the different BM episodes:
1:15 - White Bear (season 2 ep 2)
12:23 - Shut Up and Dance (season 3 ep 3)
24:31 - San Junipero (season 3 ep 4)
"Shut Up and Dance" is the first episode I saw from Black Mirror and it made my jaw drop, I did not expect it to be that intense and didn't expect the twist at the end.
you being ill at watching white bear again is so validating to me because everyone praises that episode so so much but i rewatched it recently and it made me so uncomfortable and sick and have an intense panic attack (to be fair, the panic attack was also partially brought on by something else happening at the same time) and it made me realize the episode is un-re-watchable if that makes sense. like i can never see it again
Like twisted folks finding socially acceptable ways to get away doing inhumane things.
It's the acting. It's so funking intense
Shut Up and Dance is crazy when you watch it a second time. It’s crazy. The National Anthem is one that really stuck with me. It’s not so tech heavy but more about how unaware we become of our surroundings when we’re glued to our smart devices. All of it could have been avoided if people weren’t too busy watching the PM. And The Entire History of You is another one that I still think about.
Entire History of You is always the one I recommend first - I’ve always said how I wish I could rewatch all the good memories I’ve had and that episode completely changed my mind and made me realise the horror that could come from it!
omg finally someone gets it literally every single time i watch an episode of black mirror i automatically look up ending explained afterwards it’s just routine atp
The more commentary videos on Black Mirror the less I fear mortality tbh
the unreliable narrator trope in black mirror never fails
REAL
Me laughing at Trin crying over San Junipero to end up crying with her 2 secs later is the quickest character development ive experienced 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
in "shut up and dance," i read somewhere that the hackers made them rob the bank to add to their jail time/ensure that they would be imprisoned. i think if the hackers sent the cops a video of him being a pedo, they might not have gone and arrested him with that much backup. i actually dont know if i read this somewhere or just made that up but thats what i think
That’s what happened in “Promising Young Women” they had to get predatory folks charged for other crimes because sadly the initial ones aren’t taken seriously so it’s a social commentary on how fcked up the justice is a lot of the time.
All I needed this summer besides the Barbie movie ofc was Trin's analysis of Black Mirror episodes!! 👯❤️
The Bank Robbery gives the police more charges to hold the guy on because CP is not a life sentence. So he’ll get a longer sentence with the robbery.
Also manslaughter for killing the forest guy
San Junipero was my absolute favorite episode and that shit also had me sobbing
if you do decide to do another one, Hated in the nation is also a good episode I'd love to hear your thoughts about it! Awesome video overall!
That's probably my favorite Black Mirror episode
Yesss one of my fav
hated in the nation felt like a whole ass movie and i loved it
I always recommend “White Christmas” as an introduction to Black Mirror. That episode has everything that encapsulates BM
Trin I’ve literally just started getting into Black Mirror recently so this is crazy! So excited to watch this!!!
same!!!
The "Shut up and Dance" episode was the hackers getting the guy to do all these outlandish tasks such as robbing the bank, fighting to the death to show that all the actions he had done will not erase his own actions. He tries so hard to get the hackers to delete the video, but at the end of the day he was just living out his punishment. No amount of money or bribes could have saved him, the hackers goal was to show that his desperation meant nothing compared to what he needed to get exposed for.
Watching this without watching any of the episodes was so confusing 😂😂
None of the black mirror episodes are connected! They are all their own short film with different story lines, so you’re able to watch in any order you want!
The best part is that she doesn't straight up explain every detail of the plot so now you can watch the episodes she mentioned and come back UHGANE
@@nailinthefashion the whole reason I watched the video was so I didn’t have to watch the episode 😂
@@nailinthefashion the whole reason I watched the video was so I didn’t have to watch the episode 😂
@@Winniesingss I know, I’ve watched other seasons. I just haven’t watched the ones she’s talking about. I usually just watch reaction videos because I don’t have time to sit and watch full movies/tv shows
The first ever BM episode I watched was Nosedive. I had no idea what BM was either. After the episode was done, I said 'what the heck am I watching?' then watched all of them throughout the week. So fun & mind bending.
this backdrop is EVERYTHING!! i’m obsessed trin
lol i JUST rewatched shut up and dance yesterday. such a good episode it'll be fun to watch it along a bit with you here! you're so right about watching it again after seeing it a first time because it changes the WHOLE experience. your whole reaction was mine too yesterday lol. the acting and premise was just on point
would love 2 see more black mirror in the future from u! specifically would love if u included eps like nosedive, crocodile (lowkey has a similar plot structure to white bear & shut up and dance), & hated in the nation
Girly I need to see every episode from you cuz your takes are always the best
Nosedive and Be Right Back are my most go-to rewatches. Be right back is just so freaking sad and I love to hurt myself 😍
You are so great at analyzing! 🙂 I loved it! I’m glad you’re a fan and are able to talk in depth!
My favorite episodes/high-rated episodes were in Season 4 (USS Callister, Hang the DJ, and Black Museum). It’d be interesting to see an analysis on one of those 😊
had to skip right to san junipero and your tears were so valid bestie
I know, that in a first one the main character is a bad guy, but re-watching it *knowing* that all the people there punishing her again and again and again is just devastating and I think that they not really better, than her or maybe even worse for feeding into this sick-minded game
I agree, that at the beginning she doesn't look like she cares about, what she did and they wanted to teach her a lesson, but I still think, that what they are doing is cruel and inhuman
still an amazing episode and an incredibly hard watch
edit: the second one is a good episode, really liked it at the beginning, but it didn't stuck to me
and san junipero is just one comfy episode, love to rewatch it, when I'm feeling down (also the concept very interesting and I do think, that eternal life is double sided, but still love the ability of living, even if you're not able to move/function like you did before, while also looking like you did at your peak years)
also san junipero breakdown is so real (this is me every time I rewatch it)
The bank robbery is more of a nod to how far are you willing to go to keep your dirty secrets. Then in the end the prize of getting through the trial just to still have your secrets revealed it so justified.
"I'm older, wiser...and hotter." Iconic as always
"is that one of the twenty one pilots" bruh i cant 😂😂
Trin: if you dont like San Junipero, you can die
Trin called Ashley for a fight!
first off i wanna say i’m so glad someone didn’t get shut up and dance the first time bc i feel very upset i didn’t get the first like shock and needed someone to point it out to me so i’m glad i’m not alone and i’m pretty sure i might be wrong but i think they robbed the bank just so they had more crimes to get him like more incriminated
I’m recently just obsessing with Black Mirror rn so having Trin react to this is so perfecttt 😭
I’m ready for a whole Black Mirror Commentary Season Trin!! ❤❤❤ especially seasons 3 - 6
The way i've always viewed shut up & dance is that the hackers made sure that he was locked up forever. Sex crimes against children (at least in the US) are not given appropriate punishment, and they are likely to reoffend.
i been WAITING for this one since your twitter post especially
Omg, I finally get to share the pain of these first 2 episodes with someone 😂😂😂. But for real, I binged black mirror and then had to stop at "shut up and dance" because it gave me an existential crisis. I eventually came back for San Junipero and stopped again.
No fr, I was on a binge and shut up and dance made me put this show down for WEEKS okay? No other episode fucked me up that badly like, even ones that were scarier or sadder or weirder, this one hit me the hardest
@@ayannabranchcomb7535 I literally felt a pit of dread that made me sick. It took me longer than weeks to come back to the show, or any other show that wasn't about sunshine and rainbows 😂😂😂.
Literally..
I believe “White Christmas” & “Hang the DJ” are the top rated episodes and then comes “Black Museum” alongside “San Junipero” which come in 3rd. For “Shut up and Dance” there are 7 episodes rated higher and for “White Bear” there are 10 episodes rated higher and another 2 rated the same.
It's subjective really what the best ones are.
I've read in several comments that San Junipero is so popular because of the gay relationship plot. Although I understand the logic in this opinion, I think San Junipero is one of the most thought-provoking episodes of the Black Mirror universe even without this thread. Yes, Yorkie's story and the Yorkie-Kelly relationship undoubtedly add a layer to the story but the concept of the virtual consciousness is so interesting and controversial in itself that I remember we talked about this part even years later. I liked the visual style too because of my connection to the 80s. I still rank SJ as one of the top 5 episodes. Fun fact that it was originally written for a hetero couple and the ending would not have been quasi-positive.
NOW DO NOSEDIVE
YES YEZ YES
And White Christmas! And USS Callister! And 15 Million Merits! And Playtest! Lmao just do the whole show honestly
Best one
SUM CHAMGO NOSEDIVE 😩
Nosedive and Hang up the DJ! Just the best!
I wish I didn’t know all the endings to black mirror episodes before watching them😭 I went through a whole ending explained phase and I’ve never watched the show
I remember so distinctly the first time that i watched 'shut up and dance' i felt so phsically sick and had to just sit in the dark and couldnt watch black mirror for a few days after.
I felt nauseated again even watching this review!
San junipero was truly a heartwarming welcome back when i did continue again! Such a relief!
Love your reactions, so funny. ❤
im obsessed w how obsessed u are with black mirror fr like ur mind is sooo.... thinking a thunk
I would LOVE to see you do more of these episodes. My current faves are Black Museum, Beyond the Sea, and Crocodile
Trin’s face during the Shut up and Dance kid scene in the beginning 😂😂😂😂. That was all our faces too. The twist colored the heck out that scene.
Please do more episodes of Black Mirror Trin!!! Also all three of these episodes are in my top 10 favourite episodes.
I love your videos trin. Your way of putting film into perspective for viewers is my favorite. Your pov is amazing and I also relate. never stop making reaction content love u 💘
ur hair is sooo soft looking omg its so gorgeous
I think you should do a ranking of all black mirror episodes!!
It would be so cool! What are your Top 5 episodes?
Another good episode is season 3’s “Hated In the Nation”. I feel like nobody talks about it
Black museum!!!!! Pleaseeeee it has everything stories inside a story and the reveal is just amazingggggg
Still I cry when I hear "Heaven is a place on earth". I've watched San Junipero multiple times and haven't been the same since 😢
Me too 😭
it's funny that trin started talking about easter eggs after seeing white bear - bandersnatch symbol 😂
I wish i could watch shut up and dance for the first time again but with someone because the way my stomach dropped when the confrontation happened… I instantly got it actually horrifying
White Bear and Shut Up and Dance will always be my top two favorite episodes. The narrative twists in them are such gut punches and you really don’t expect either one.
I always thought the reason for the bank robbery was to keep him from getting away like even though he made it to the end the police were going to put multiple charges on him? I haven’t watched this since it came out but I remember police were coming in from the distance
Okay I remembered right that police showed up lol
Omg this is so exciting ♡ especially because the new season is out !!
San Junipero is the best short sf I’ve ever seen on TV, and I’ve been watching science fiction for 40 years. Even after seeing it numerous times, the waterworks still come.
Oh, and we love Greg ❤️
Am I the only one who’s favorite black mirror is Nosedive? I feel like that’s the best introduction to black mirror
Trin always putting out quality over quantity💙
ur point of wanting to have watched shut up and dance for the first time with a huge group of ppl... I LOVE IT cause most black mirror episodes i WISH i could've seen in theaters somehow omg
I need a trin Lovell video on the barbie movie
i would never reccomended shut up and dance as a first episode. maybe second, but for me 15 million merits is the perfect first episode
FIRST ASH NOW TRIN OMGGG IM BEING FED GOODDD
San Junipero: One reason you wouldn't want to "pass over" is touched on in the episode. The whole idea of the Quagmire. At the bitter end, you have a rather distressing dilemma. Do you commit suicide and voluntarily switch off? Or do you become one of the "sad fucks" in the Quagmire resorting to more and more extreme acts it _feel_ something. Ultimately, even that isn't going to last forever. So, you have only one option...
And that's the best outcome. The other way to look at it is the ultimate teleporter type issue. And what constitutes _you_. We see the physical body get buried. And a simulation of you springs up, but is that really you. Or cynically have you just been reduced to an NPC behaving like a human for the "visitors"?
So, when you dig a bit deeper, this happy, bubbly episode can get quite deep and dark.
she ate!!! not me crying along to San Junipero (im an empath)
On this episode of video essay with a side of reaction commentary
If annoying contained vitamins I'd watch this channel everyday.
Love the Taylor Swift Era’s merch sweatshirt making an appearance too😭🥺
San Junipero is the starting point of my love for the 80s. This episode will stay in my top 5 sapphic contents forever.
you're reading my mind, i was watching black mirror until i saw this notification, im actually scared
Has anyone noticed that in Shut up and Dance, during the scene where Kenny gives the little girl the toy at the restaurant at 13:30, the song ''That's the way I like it'' by KC and the Sunshine band plays in the background...While Kenny is smiling at the little girl. Very clever foreshadowing right there.
first time watching shut up and dance I literally got to the end when he’s asked how old they were and I was like ‘nono he’s not like you, tell him- TELL HIM IT WAS NORMAL - oh. oh no’ took a sec for the penny to drop…
for shut up and dance, they made him rob the bank so he would be further incriminated. It also no doubt caused a lot of distress for the main character which they would want.
i would love to see your take on the whole series!!!
san junipero made me sob the whole time lol
The first episode i watched was shut up and dance at a friend's house with like 6 people and it was the perfect introduction to the series
White bear is kinda weird cus the whole memory erasure thing is so pointless might as well be punishing some innocent random
Ya it's rly brutal in that way, which helps push the questions about capital punishment
Just found your channel and I’m so glad I did! I really like your humor and video presentation. Liked and subscribed! 😁
Trin why do you always make the best videos? Why are you so talented and never miss to make my day better?? Care to explainn????
In my opinion they are the 3 best eps of Black Mirror
omg i just finished binging it all for the first time this is exactly the video i need 😫
I’m so excited for your review of season 6!!
Trin watching san junipeo as god intended, shaking and crying.
i want you to know trin, that i also did not understand the ending of shut up and dance, and only under stood after watching an ending explained.
After every episode I always sprint to reddit to look at the episode explanation threads