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Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016)
A beautiful story, but ...
Black Mirror: San Junipero was a beautiful episode,it was filled with emotions and it was a nice change in the overall dark theme that black Mirror represents. But,I think that this episode didn't truly reflect the dark aspects of this technology.
Another way to interpret this episode is that due to the general limitations of technology, the dead "souls" in San Junipero were just copies or reproductions. So at the end of the episode, Kelly comes to that same conclusion.In this view, she decides to "join" Yorkie in San Junipero, not because she wants an eternity with Yorkie in paradise, but because she realizes that the version of herself in San Junipero won't really be her anyway. She does it because she realizes that the real Kelly will die, so there's really no harm in sending a copy of herself to San Junipero to make the copy of Yorkie happy.
So this interpretation gives the episode both the happy ending and the dark ending which is in reality both Yorkie and Kelly are dead and what's in San Junipero are nothing but mere copies of themselves.