BLACK MIRROR Season 6: Joan Is Awful Ending Explained | Breakdown, Review & Easter Eggs
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- BLACK MIRROR Season 6: Joan Is Awful Ending Explained | Breakdown, Review & Easter Eggs. We review, recap and explain the new Netflix Black Mirror Season Episode 1 and talk about the hidden details, references and the true meaning of the ending.
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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and I'm so excited to talk about what happens in Season 6. The show has returned and for the next week we're gonna be going through every single episode to bring you full ending explained breakdowns. First up is Joan Is Awful which centres around a woman discovering that her entire life has been turned into a quote unquote netflix drama starring none other than Salma Hayek.
This showcases all of her faults, fantasies and it unearths every dirty little secret that she has. They also do a big twist come the end which I'll talk about as we get further into it.
Extremely fourth wall breaking it actually has a number of different Black Mirror and Netflix Easter eggs in it. For the first part of the video I wanna go through what they are and then from here we'll go into most of the plot and it's meaning.
Now the opening when the title itself is revealed in the same font as netflix and we learn that in this universe it's called Streamberry. We see the service being accessed at several points and there's lots of different titles on it.
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You missed the post credit scene of the "real" Joan shitting in the church. You should opt for "watch credits" to see that scene and goto 56:19 to watch that.
I think you're missing something. They got Annie Murphy for this role because of Kevin Can F**K Himself. When her husband (Kevin) is in the room, the show becomes a sitcom, but when he's gone everyone has to live in reality. Bleak, fucked up, clean up his miss reality. They SAID , in Black Mirror, they were trying to make her look awful for ratings even while picking the most middle of America person in the nation..
Why did you write, “The exaggerated approach to LGBTQ+ characters” Are you a part of the LGBTQ+ community? Nothing exaggerated there!!! I find this offensive
@@dhj1825 You didn't missing anything. You just didn't process what happened.
For "Source" Joan to break the computer, she had to enter the building. Who helped "Source" Joan enter the building? The "Source" Annie "Fucking" Murphy
Mona Javadi had told her secretary to get "Source" Annie Murphy kicked out of the building which means "source" Annie Murphy has entered, roamed in the building, helped "source" Joan to break and enter and go to the office of Moan Javadi and the walk into the computer room, and threaten the IT guy which was all illegal.
So this makes "Source" Annie Murphy an accomplice.
Made sense?
When I like a video it's because I consciously thought that the content was good enough that I wanted to show my appreciation, every channel asking for likes rather than earning it just serves to inflate the value of the like button over time and give an inaccurate representation of what it means for the video to be liked, which is why I actively dislike every video that asks for me to like it because the author wants me to too instead of letting letting me come to my own decision. If you remind someone to like if IF they actually liked it that's fine. Otherwise you are annoying.
It hit hard at the scene when the lady was explaining how “Joan is Awful” would get better engagement than “Joan is Awesome” because of how drawn in people are to the negative aspects of people’s lives😶
It's not just about the negative aspects of other people's lifes but of everyone's own life. She said that we were absorbed by seeing 'ourselves' miserable.
Eh, ok. I guess that's semi-insightful, but pretty played out. If it's a new concept for you, then it can be interesting, you're right in that case.
@@jeffrokraus5483 That's why I think basic psychology should be taught in school, it would make life harder for the media, populists and netflix for that matter.
And they were right!
We are social, imaginative creatures........but we are also still "scared apes" and with a reptile hindbrain.
Something being 'fine' (awesome) isn't as important to pay attention to since, well, it's fine
BUT something going wrong, someone acting badly or unpredictably _is_ important to pay attention to since we could be threatened by it/them.
I love Michael Cera’s line “this is not called Selma Hayek gets everything explained to her but doesn’t understand it still” lol
Hehehehe. That was a good moment 👍😀
lol facts
My first big "HA!" of the season 😂
The one meta element I loved of the show
I love when he got punched and spun around In chair lol
They took the "I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude" to the max lmao 🤣
😂😂😂😂 DEAD ASS what came to my mind
@@jasmineclark6413 lmao 🤣
Thank you for this joke, and for reminding me how brilliant the movie Tropic Thunder is. 👍👍👍
Like I said when I watched this (last night):
It’s a reality within a reality inside another reality
@@silashurd3597 exactly 💯
It seems that Joan is played as more and more awful as you get deeper into each fictive layer. This suggests real Joan is probably not awful at all. As the Michael Cera character implies, real Joan doesn't live in a fancy house, and we can assume, probably didn't have as good a job as the Annie Murphy Joan. We can assume that real Joan was much kinder to Sandy and less powerful in the firing scene...
It makes the whole thing much more disturbing because as Mona says, there's nothing special about her; they could've warped the life of anyone on their streaming service. Maybe real Joan didn't cheat on Krish at all, or even reply to Mac's messages. Stark warnings, indeed.
it's an interesting spin on the unreliable narrator trope
More than likely replied to the message and met up with him but based on how exaggerated each layer gets she probably didnt kiss him and if they did kiss it was probably him kissing her on the cheek or something.
Up to a point. All those changes would eventually add up and cause to much divergency. For example, if in one level she cheated on her fiancé and in another she didn't, in one they might break up and not in the other.
Like the CEO said, the characters might say things in different way for dramatic effect, but the events have to have the same consequences (the same plot points), as not to cause a cascading divergency.
They progressively dramatize the idea more and more through each perspective
Interesting and correct thought, but since Annie was the level 1 fictional Joan, it's not possible the stuff with Mac, etc. was just made up. The post-credits scene also shows the Source Joan defecating in the church and it's pretty much the way Annie did it, only with a bit more genuine regret and guilt in her face.
So Source Joan no doubt did text Mac, she did meet with him and kiss him, etc., but she did it with less fervor or passion.
Source Joan in real life, was making mistakes, she was being, well awful, but not in such a dramatic way. The dramatic way is reflection of how many of us see bad things others do to us, or things we do to others, in our minds and how we then pass those events along to others - usually with added layer of emotions and drama that wasn't necessarily there even if the gist of the story is correct. Some do it more, some less.
I actually didn’t see Joan as a bad person. I saw her as an incredibly flawed person with very little control in her life, which did lead her to make bad decisions. Joan Is Awful just focused on her worst traits and embellished the mistakes and bad choices that she made in order to make her appear worse than she actually was. Instead of a complex human being, she was portrayed as a black and white caricature of herself, which isn’t too different to how people in social media are viewed when they themselves make bad decisions. Because the public doesn’t care about the complexities of human nature and what leads people to make the choices that they do, they just like the drama.
I still can't see her bad decisions, she wasn't even complex, we barely learned anything about her. If this was a character assassination anyone can be slaughtered.
Sounds like you all are justifying cheating. Maybe this show is also meant to expose the awful people in real life too.. now that would be truly meta.
@@jamie31415 it doesn’t justify cheating, but having your entire life ruined and privacy lost over something like that isn’t an equal form of punishment.
Thank you for saying this. Nothing can make some of her actions okay, but that doesn't mean she's a completely bad person.
found the bitches that cheat ^
Meta as meta gets. Loved the episode. The quote that gets me is Salma Hayeks about 100 years of film history being converted to an app. It feels so watered down now
My favorite quote from her was "I'm Salma-fucking-Hayek!"
So many layers in this episode that simulate what we deal with in real life…
It was all pretty contrived, and expected, from my point of view. But I guess it was okay. I like when Salma and Joan started to get back at the company ... but seriously, computer servers (including that quantum computer) would have backups, and offsite backups, and hot/cold/warm site disaster recovery locations to prevent exactly this kind of attack, etc. ... There's no way attacking one building would tear it all down. Keep dreaming, hahahahaha.
@@jeffrokraus5483i agree with you but it wasn’t the point to be fully realistic. I think it was mainly the idea that we hand our lives over to corporations that don’t give a flying ef about people…and we do it so superficially without ever paying attention to what we are doing…so not the best episode in Black mirror series but in my opinion not the worst either. Interesting i would say and I love meta in shows…so i got enough in this episode😂
@@jeffrokraus5483 a quantum computer may have all that stuff, but this is a quamputer!! Lol
I also think Joan keeps getting more and more awful as they go down deeper into the fictus levels. Like it becomes more and more of an adaption
Sup Sahir level 2, it's me, Sahir level 3, played by actor Ahmed Moyeed. Please do something cool today
@@ahmedmoyeed9627 well… played by the *image* of actor Ahmed Moyeed. The source is at home, I don’t think he’s seen it yet.
This is a commentary on how AI mines data by scrapping the internet, but now that AI generates content it starting to feed on itself. Like a photocopy of a photocopy, the quality just gets worst and worst.
Yup....very subtle smart filmmaking
@@lolcat9744 when you "copy glitch-clip" into another multiverse reality because of the "quam-puta*"-verse collapsing in on itself!!!🤣🤣* was hilarious how Salma "fkn" Hayek said "comp-puta"!!🤣🤣
This episode is a perfect example of social media, but written as a juxtaposition. We all exagerate our lives into these online characters. We feel awful if something we post isn’t up to our standard or if someone isn’t responding to how we’d expect it. We look at ourselves from the online presence first and then reality. We watch our IG stories over and over... We travel to places just so we can show it in our "online character". We are all characters in our online profiles
The only thing this episode is a perfect example of... is absolutely horrendous TV.
And none of us are a main character in our own lives because we are living for others and not ourselves
I'm glad I don't have or use any type of social media. Unless you view the comments section of CZcams as social media, that's all I'm on.
We aren't the main character in our own lives. Our online personas are taking on more and more significance.
It's not wrong to care, but some of us don't give a damn about any of that.
My favorite part of the whole episode was me waiting for the character of Kate Blanchett to appear and I expected we would get deeper and deeper into the multiverse (think Inception's dream within a dream) but then suddenly we are taken one step back and shown that the whole picture we have been shown was already a movie adaptation. That is the classic Black Mirror twist I look forward to in every episode.
Yes 💯 me too!
I was waiting for her to come in and cuss everyone out 😅
Still a weak twist compared to season 1-4 … black mirror took a step back with this season
Then just like the people who watch Joan is Awful, you're a drone that must see how bad it gets. Perfect meta, you didn't realize you were becoming the mindless finger pointer at someone else's misery. And that my friends....is genius writing.
As someone who went into this as blind as possible, I just have to say that Salma Hayek and Annie Murphy were a duo I didn't know I needed. They were genuinely unexpected but they were comedy gold together, seriously some of the industry's finest comedians. Salma really came through with the laughs in this episode and Annie, while also being incredibly funny, she really stood out to me and showed the world how talented of an actress she really is. I hope this opens the door to more future opportunities for her.
This episode was absolutely amazing. It starts small with work and personal conflicts, and builds up to questioning reality itself. It did all that in 60 minutes. I was absolutely blown away. Usually episodes seem to center around a specific social issue. But this one touched on more than one and still pulled it off.
I liked how Annie also had an ankle bracelet at the end as well as she was also charged with the crime of destroying the Quan-puta!
they broke in together, remember?
This is the part I don't understand, but want to. If they were using Annie's image, why was real Annie there at all? Fake Michael Cera had just explained that it's not actually the actors.
@@victoriarendon3294 because like Salma Hayek went and helped Annie to commit the crime. Annie helped the real Joan destroy the computer in reality so she was also charged with the crime
@johnathan2321 wait was Annie joan or the other girl
@@justaturky2890 Real Joan and Real Annie were both wearing bracelets, Real Joan also did what Annie Joan did (destroy the computer) and Real Annie did everything Salma Hayek did also committing the crime
It would have made a lot more sense to destroy the phone immediately after learning that they listen in through the microphone...
I was thinking the same thing… or delete the app?
I was confused as to why she did just leave her phone at home/in the car 😭 i thought that was the obvious solution
It was poorly written and directed 😅 that's the only reason for this
I think the data harvesting aspect being ignored by the characters is the real point of this episode. It's not really a commentary about Streaming or AI or Simulation, it's about the fact that most of us care about our image first and foremost. They don't care that a corporation has a continuous stream of data about them (enough to create a simulated version!), they care about the presented version of themselves that others can see. The near real-time show on a steaming platform works as a good substitute for social media.
it's actually a commentary on most people today. they would never destroy their phone even if they knew it was spying on them (which it IS btw). also, they're too dumbed down from using their "smart phone" to ever think to disable the app. to them, they just use the phone, and don't even know there is such an option. (not tech savvy, just a tech user)
I think the data harvesting aspect being ignored by the characters is the real point of this episode. It's not really a commentary about Streaming or AI or Simulation, it's about the fact that most of us care about our image first and foremost. They don't care that a corporation has a continuous stream of data about them (enough to create a simulated version!), they care about the presented version of themselves that others can see. The near real-time show on a steaming platform works as a good substitute for social media
Perfection!!
Well they care about the part of the equation that has the most potential for affecting the way they're seen by others, and by extension their lives. Just the corporation having their data didn't cause Joan to lose her job or her fiancé, but the exposing of that information did.
What’s interesting it’s this was Netflix’s blatant self awareness about how awful they could be and how awful we would be for still watching and streaming it. It’s so introspective to the point of being blinded so you still miss the point.
Nah jusy the fact people want to watch other misery or bad experience for the drama instead of someone happy shows alot.
Just finished this episode I can’t believe they’ve done it again! Mind blowing and scary how it’s so close to reality . Can’t wait to watch the rest!
It's a downplayed reality.
@@name5876how?
Kind of went back to that Black Mirror idea of computer simulations and artificial intelligence portrayed as human beings, like in "Hang The DJ". Definitely back to the high quality of season 1 and 2. Could be a commentary on celebrity, and how everyone knows the intimate details of one's personal life. And with social media, it's all being reported in real time. And, of course, the quantum computer is Chat GPT taken to it's ridiculous extreme logical conclusion.
One of my fears is to caught in situations like this because we never actually read terms and conditions!!!
I loved when Salma Hayek said she didn’t want to be part of such a mediocre show, Annie-Joan had this little look of “hey it’s not _that_ bad”
This felt like a return to form. Doesn't touch the heights of the first seasons but it feels like Charlie Booker finally has something to say again.
Looking forward to see the other episodes.
By the way best Michael Cera cameo since This Is The End
I disagree. I think this is probably one of the best seasons. Nostalgia is powerful and for something to be this good when new means it's a heavy hitter
doesn't have to touch the heights of the first seasons, its a new creative direction
@@bumblebee234 I agree. I am almost done with the 2nd to last episode.
I liked joan is awful the best so far. The next one Lock Henry was a good movie yet was not really black mirror. Beyond the sea as okay yet good and not the vibe I was looking for. The Mazey day I may have to rewatch another time as I was not in to it and half paying attention. The next and last one I have not watched yet. Couple of things that brings me down is the fact they went retro 60s 70s 80s 90s or what ever and everything felt old and not fresh. Some of my fav Black Mirro episodes are the first one and if you watch The Diplomat you would have noticed the PM is the in both show and episodes. I really like the bike episode, the rankings episode and I am sure there are many others as I do from time to time go back and watch them. Those all seem future like.
I feel we have caught up to the Black Mirror timeline… we are in it. We are in parallel universes vs. in previous seasons, the episodes are ahead of its time. Go back and rewatch many of the episodes and they pair up with where we are now. White Bear is like someone getting canceled online (constantly reliving it), Nosedive is self explanatory and IS HAPPENING, Fifteen Million Merits was all of us during the pandemic (in some form), Be Right Back is when we memorialize someone’s profile on FB… all their posts, videos, etc. are playable… now in 2023, we’ve met up with the Black Mirror timeline and the episodes are hitting home
@@AskMikowow im officially amazed and scared at the same time
this episode restored my faith in mainstream media. it gave the viewer power to fight against the self deprecating and debilitating affect of mass media made for engagement - rather than for purpose or a goal of having a good message. watching joan at the end come to terms with herself and actually achieve her goal of owning a coffee shop maded me smile so much, i literally got up to paint after spending months in an art block.
What an odd conclusion.
As an introvert that avoids real life human interactions as much as possible, this is a scenario I have in my head before every interaction. My natural awkwardness imagines the worst case scenario and I subconsciously calculate whether the interaction is worth destroying my life over. It's a pretty f'd up way to live.
Your anxiety is worse than mine.
Ever think you aren’t an introvert and maybe you severely lack social skills and social awareness to be fully functional in a social world which makes you paranoid and anxious? 😮
Introversion is not akin to awkwardness or weirdness . Nor is it linked to social anxiety . There are many “introverts” who aren’t like that. That’s a you problem. Don’t make poor excuses for you lack of social awareness . Work on the skills instead to be a normal human being instead of just saying “as an introvert I’m weird and have anxiety”.
Sounds like you’re attributing introversion with what seems to be a really bad social anxiety and possibly depression disorder. Being an introvert doesn’t mean any of the things you mentioned, you just happen to be an introvert who suffers with a couple of mental health issues. Definitely try to get help for it if you’re able to, it’s a hard way to live
imagine the reactions in your head being manifested all the time
and you looking like a nerd in the episodes
2 other Easter eggs. The song playing when she meets Mac is the one being sung in 15 million merits and used throughout black mirror. Also the lawyers is named after skillane from White Bear!
Literally, no one mentions the song! If u remember, in that episode, she says it was passed down through her family
Yes, good point!
Lacie Pound from “Nosedive” is seen in the social media feed too!
i got chills all over my body when i heard the song, it's been so long since i've heard it
@@itsdannyhoney Same. It clicked the "creepy" button in my brain.
Season 6 is absolutely insane. I love it. I stumbled upon it by accident. I didn’t even know it was out. I had pretty much given up on season 6 ever coming out. This was an amazing treat ❤❤❤❤❤
Ahh I would’ve been so happy if this happened to me, but I’ve been checking for months when it was coming out 😂
I loved this episode it was sooooo funny.
But I do think it’s sad how they keep having content to go off of. AI software’s ability to create deep fakes and images these days is craaazzzyy, and uploading yourself on the internet is essentially ‘giving consent’ to have your face used and put on anything.. as many female streamers have seen within the past year.
It’s really sad despite the episode being funny.
So this is where Black Mirror is at now? Getting praised for being funny? Hahaha yea, the show is officially dead
@@FuckFascistCZcams some parts of this episode. but overall is very meta
@@FuckFascistCZcams
Oh yes, because funny is bad now.
Your life is very sad
@@calebreynolds9183 In Black Mirror, yes. Funny is unwelcome. If you disagree, you simply don't understand the show lol. Which is cool
@@FuckFascistCZcams
And you’re genuinely brain dead if you don’t understand how concepts can defy genres
All she had to do was nothing, who whats to watch a show with a person just sitting there? It would eventually get canceled. Or she could have found someone that never had "Netflix " and when they aired the episode have that person sue for using their likeness
or you know, get rid of her devices but we must suspend our belief sometimes for tv.
TRUEE
You don't get the concept, they twisted and exaggerated whatever she did. House arrest was the doing nothing. She did try it.
@@name5876 she was on house arrest AFTER all the shenanigans because she broke in and broke the stupid computer.... that's why Joan is also ankle monitored
Whet?
@@Urm0mz Oh, I was talking about reality, not this garbage.
Okay, two things. First, I think Joan still had a case, because her lawyer said Streamberry could take creative liberties with the characters and dialogue. Wouldn't that mean the company that fired her based it off of potentially fictitious hearsay? Is that not libelous? Regardless of her actually discussing the company's info and the fired employee, she could've denied it and if the fired employee said otherwise, it's the word of ex-employee against her own. Second, that image she drew on her forehead reminded me of the Lewis structure for oxygen. It made me remember her e-cig, her panic attack and the place she worked, which seemed very 'pro-green'.
Good point. IIRC, they pointed out how everyone’s phones is always recording them, even when it’s face down on the table. She had her phone in her office so maybe that’s how they knew what she said?
That was a dick on her forehead.... really dude?
the image she drew on her forehead? you mean the dick lol??
It doesn't matter cuz it was all a computer program
It's the modern age. You can get fired and canceled for any perceived reason.
I strongly believe the therapist was a casting agent finding potential matches to get the best engagement.
Additionally I’m not totally convinced we saw the “core Joan” in the end, I believe the algorithm decided that giving a redemption arc to the titler character for the finale makes them more relatable.
I came to this conclusion as whilst explaining the meta nature of the show we are watching, several characters are required to go “off script” since the core level they wouldn’t be talking about themselves in this manner.
Just finished watching the first 2 episode and was literally hoping you would be covering them lol
First 2 episodes are great and a return to form for Black Mirror
The scariest part about this episode was how close to reality this actually is. There’s already scandals surrounding deepfakes due to their lax legislation and heavy realism. For example the Twitch streamer Atrioc faced heavy criticism after watching an ai generated corn video of a fellow twitch streamer and friend.
What hitse hard is EULA. I mean, how many times did we click on accept button?
We will always support this channel. They're the best at constructing great content.
2 missed Easter Eggs: The song playing when Joan sees Mac at the lounge in the beginning is the song that's first heard in 15 Million Merits where Abby sings it for her audition on Hot Shot. On Mac's phone when he's on the toilet, there's a post from Lacie Pound (from Nosedive).
I caught a few of the Easter Eggs but you nailed so many more. There was also the song Anyone who knows what love is.
The irony of Netflix releasing this in the midst of a Writer's Strike where the use of AI is one of the main grievances of the WGA
This episode felt like it was written by a 14-old. There are a million things why this "Plot is Awful" and extremely shallow.
1. Law moment is incredibly brainless, shallow and based on a most basic (and stupid) idea we had (probably when we were 13 or less) that WHAT IF WE DON'T READ WHAT WE SIGN WHEN WE CLICK AGREE?? MAYBE I AGREED TO TRANSFER ALL MY MONEY OR GAVE A PERMISSION TO KILL ME? Literally no, who would even believe that. And they repeated the same narrative with actress character. This would never work, even in theory and no one even has to be a lawyer to notice this.
2. Black Mirror was realistic before with people's reaction on things, I don't think no one would ever just give up if someone used their identity and broke their privacy. Like at least get public attention?
3. Turn ur phone off??
4. Their explanation on technologies in this episode is shallow as well too(quantum computers, phones listening to what you are saying(and yes that's the whole explanation)) also the ending made no point at all.
Old Black Mirror would handle this idea so much better, maybe deepen in the idea of recursiveness, like, are they gonna hire actors forever, make some actors artificially or something else? What am I talking about, maybe try to go deeper into SOMETHING AT LEAST? Literally no established narrative or message, or even something to think about after watching it.
Overall it's okay for a typical netflix tv series episode, but for Black Mirror - meh.
What do you mean by public attention? Isn't her life public enough? Everyone knows it's based on a real person and no one cares, that's the point. Until it's not them, they couldn't care less. Especially when they are brainwashed and made to think the target is really an awful person just like in Running man. Remember that? Also you can't live without all your devices. Even if you get rid of them they can follow you by other devices. That's not the solution, getting rid of snitches and stalkers is the solution.
@@name5876 i mean LITERALLY NO ONE SHOWS THAT? That's just ur assumptions? No one said publicly in that episode that everyone knows it's about real person. It's just a dialoge between workers in the company at the end of the episode.
@@KtoNeznamo Maybe not everyone on the planet, but everyone in her life and a lot more people. (Actually the master mind was giving an interview about it at the end, so it wasn't a secret.) She needs a lawyer, not more people brainwashed by these lies.
Thank you For your Original Comment about black mirror season 6 This Season 6 was fucking shit.
I agree an thought the same thing on my own. I still thought it was a good episode. Comic book style magic hand waving, but it's to get to a meaty center. I laughed at the law part too. But they got a lampshade to fix that: you're just watching the show version
I like the idea that at the end, Joan's Coffee has replaced Joan Is Awful as the streaming series starring Joan.
that actually makes sense but what about them both wearing ankle monitors?
And it has a meta guest star in her new friend Annie
@@acey1169That just creates the fun scenario of bringing drama into the cafe itself, kinda like Friends for the first few seasons
I looked for (and liked) this comment before adding my own. I had the same impression when I first watched the episode: "Joan's Coffee" IS a (if not the actual) show.
“I’M SALMA FUCKING HAYEK” Salma Hayek 😂
Black Mirror is so creative never seen anything similar like this i was really hooked
Whoa! You’re super quick with the analysis video!! Amazeballs!!!!!
Joan should have known she wasn't Base Joan because the streaming service was called Streamberry not Netflix.
YES!
That’s the good stuff mate 😂
I watched ep 1 & 2 and so far Joan is Awful is one of my favorites, def one of the top episodes of all their seasons ! 🥳
wait n watch 3 ep, holy f*** what an ending
of all mmm shut up and dance still dances in my head since watching but hey we have our own opinions
lol definitely not
@@mj4lyfe404 Crazy, i watched these before season 6 again and it wouldn’t be that high in my ranking next to all other possible options
@@legendemperor9150 True, just finished it ! And what an acting this episode 😵💫 but honestly still not topping episode 1 for me, Doh the last plot twist really had me sad as ish
Excellent vid Paul - thanks ! Looking forward to watching the rest of the season.
Thanks for the info
The other day I had a chat with a tech nerd and he was telling me how all the future technologies are aiming towards reaching the singularity. And the more we march towards it the higher the chances of us humans losing control over everything. For example when we sign up for an AI photo app, it clearly says in the terms and conditions that it will use and store the images provided to it in ways we can not even imagine, it presents this to us in a very fancy way that it will enhance our user experience and will make it more easy for us to achieve what we want but in reality we willingly provide permission to them, gradually giving these apps control over us. There was even a hint in the episode "Salma can blow off an Orangutan" about deep fake porn movies all over the internet over which the celebrities have no control.
ugh this is wild
Bingo. The creators of certain apps and AI need our consent to avoid bad karma for their insidious plans for us.
Great breakdown looking forward to your review of loch Henry really stuck with me as my gf actually was Fred Wests neighbour and went to dinner in his house once as a teenage girl. You can tell stuff like that haunts a person. Especially the families as most of his family are actually lovely apparently and everyone I’ve met that know them always talk about the impact his and Roses crimes had on them all.
Yeah so much Fred west stuff. Was wondering if Ian was a nod to Ian Brady as well
I hit the thumbs up mate ❤️
This entire episode reminded of that Spaceballs scene where they pull out the movie’s VHS mid-movie and watch themselves.
“When will then happen? NOW!”
A theme seems to be that the law is not here to help but to punish, at least for individuals (as opposed to corporations).
Totally, just about. Same for twilight zone. The punishments for the most part don't really seem to be warranted. Having one selfish thought means you deserve to suffer for an eternity. Yikes
That Selma Hayek line is hilarious especially considering she is one of the most deep faked celebs out there. Internet has all our likenesses out there doing all kinds of wild stuff now.
There's also a mid credit scene where "Source Joan" does the chapel scene
Thumbs Up / Liked ! 👍🏼
This episode was fantastic. So clever. And prophetic.
Can’t wait to watch season 6.
Cheers Paul.
Fantastic episode! Great start.
This episode speaks volumes on society now more than ever. Netflix has literally done this in the new series baby rain-deer, taking a crappy person and ruining their life. And the person can’t even sue
Reminded me of the HumanCentipad South Park Episode with Kyle not reading the terms and conditions
Fun fact The guy who was supposed to cgi Callows face onto the p-star for the pig live stream worked on Sea of Tranquility so it was first mentioned in episode one
Good video!! Thanks for posting, Also, good job I never post anything of my life online!!
Just in time for my lunch break
This episode was such a mindf*ck but so interesting. Loved the twist!
The ending made me happy and cry at the same time! Very good episode
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the Stremberry service, we’re always looking to improve our engagement.
Irma Thomas's "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is was playing in the bar when Joan went to meet Mac
I think you missed the song that's plays from "fifteen million merits" when Joan walks into the restaurant.
Just a tiny easter egg, but that's one track that makes me feel a certain way.
I felt weird watching this episode because l wrote/recorded a film idea (via voicenote in my phone) that was so much like it that l felt like my idea was stolen from me... but then again l guess humans think alike right? Nevertheless it still messes with my head because this is the 3rd time l've had an film/movie idea show up on the big screen a year or two after l saved it in my phones notepad/voicenote. & the saddest part in all this is l know noone will believe me because if it were someone else writing this l probably would not believe them either...
Yep people can definetly stole anything on your phone if it's connected to internet. Be careful... I can believe you and if it is true, it's messed up... use a notebook maybe to be sure !
yeah there is literally a term for it. parallel thinking.
Bullshit
Yeah people came up with the idea of evolution in the Same time period. It’s all about who delivers it first takes the glory.
You mean before or after you saw Truman show?
She’s still being recorded though lol. We are still watching her. It’s really a never ending cycle
Nah
I died when Salma Hayek called the supercomputer a "Quantum-puta."
Other than answering her ex's text, Joan didn't do anything bad/awful/bitchy like the show and some people claim. No manager is going to rehire someone because they begged for their job back.
It was a romcom version of what really happened. In every episode there's someone who turns out to be evil in some form, in this one it was Netflix, not Joan.
She had an affair and didn’t think particularly highly about her current partner, so she wasn’t great but yeah the whole point was to play up the negative aspects to get the most engagement.
If anyone had ever suffered with Psychosis from a mental illness.... The Plot of this show is very accurate to what actually feels like. if you know.. you know.
Glad im not alone. People who do not suffer from bipolar or schizophrenia will have no idea what you are talking about. Glad to find someone like you who truly gets the hell my mind has to go through
Nice video,i think you missed one easter egg. The law firm that Annie Murphy visits is Skillane Legal,a reference to "White Bear". You can see it at the 5:38 mark. Cheers!
Show inception to the nth level. Thanks for the excellent breakdown, Paul, it’s greatly appreciated.
Great first episode. Better than all of S5 combined.
Bleak tech concept. Twists and surprises along the way. Dashes of humour. A big A List celeb to get people on board for the season. Hilarious meta jabs at Netflix itself.
Even a positive upbeat ending.
Not just solid but pretty darn good.
Along with 15 Million Merits, Nosedive, and USS Callister this might be one of the best high concept episodes of the show to introduce newcomers so they get the gist. Just don't show them The National Anthem. I'm still in awe that they decided that would be the opening episode for the entire series to introduce the world to Black Mirror. Ballsy as hell.
More Meta Easter Eggs: Everyone in the office being in the cast and being quiet as Joan enters the next morning after watching the show, because they all accepted the terms and conditions too.
The cop taking her mugshot said it was “on his list”, as well.
this episode and another(ill comment wen yu upload it) was the best this season
Well, you caught me as an awful person who unintetionally doesn't like the videos and passes on to the next one 😂😂 I gave you a big like 😂
My hypothesis: Charlie Brooker made this episode slap-stick-esque, farcical and low brow, because it's a parody of Netflix itself. When we see Joan and Salma, this is not baseline reality. Their behavior is not real, but a result of lazy writing within the universe of Streamberry. It's one of the most meta-episodes ever.
I hated the humour, but it dawned on me at the end that Charlie had been playing a trick on me the entire time. It was a middle finger to the rest of the dross that is on Netflix.
Nah I think the episode just sucked and was poorly written. That's it
@@FuckFascistCZcams does it feels like the Disney version of the original show ?
@@p0ush Not as much as that Ashley episode from season 5, but yea still a little bit
I hope so because this ep was incredibly bad
I actually had to pause it and google Anne Murphy I've never heard of her before, its kinda like inception vibes, I loved it makes me want to leave less of a digital footprint now! great review!
Simception
Watch schitts creek.
Knew her from Dexter
Another Black Mirror Easter egg, if it wasn’t mentioned already, was that the song from “15 million Merits” was playing in the restaurant when Joan walks in to meet Mac.
Wauw what an masterpiece! Blow my mind again, especially the end where she is her true self and made her dream reality.
This whole season was so incredible definitely worth the wait. Favorite episode was demon 79 and least favorite (but still good) was loch Henry.
Demon 79 was good but that ending was a bit weak. & the whole supernatural thing is very weird for black mirror (I guess that’s why it’s called Red Mirror now)
Joan is Awful/Loch Henry are easily my favorites. I didn’t like Beyond the Sea at all. Mazey Day/Demon 79 aren’t boring. But how is everyone going to vibe with supernatural horror vs science fiction on this show?
@@TheJadedJames it's not exactly that I vibe with the supernatural aspect, but I enjoyed the characters and their relationship with each other. Nida is hands down one of my favorite black mirror characters. And I don't mind the creator diving into different genres. I'm not very anal about the technology aspect. It's good but it doesn't have to be all encompassing for me to enjoy the show.
@@marlondavis9450 Joan is Awful is the only episode this season that doesn’t end in bloodshed, they definitely leaned harder into the Horror aspect this season.
The first and third episodes were the most typically Black Mirror, though I do enjoy seeing them mixing it up with dark themes in general.
The thing is: is it really a happy ending? I think not so much, this is a whole meta-thing... because in the end they are still protagonists in a series, that WE are watching, therefore the "loop" isn't over yet, we, in our world are just the next upper instance on this
I think that’s exactly what black mirror wants us to grab from this ending
Yep.
The algorithm decided to create a positive conclusion to make Joan more relatable in the end, everyone loves a good redemption arc.
I agree. I think it implies that we could be part of the quantum computer and we’re not real either, just another layer
@@ObsessiveGeek but it’s real
@@smartwater598 That's what the algorithm wants you to think.
Loved hearing the Black Mirror song “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is” when Joan met up with Mac at the bar.
very good video
Now I am starting to panic what Ive signed up for when i clicked Agree to any terms and conditions 😂
Same 😂😂😂 the scary part is this could actually happend because they are always listening throughout phones
This episode made me shiver
ugh so frickin good !
Watched the first two episodes last night. Loved Annie Murphy, and Lolly Adafope(she is such a gem on Taskmaster!!), And every actor in the second ep knocked my socks off!
"Without moving the fish bowl...."
-Lolly
I’m confused as to why on the 1st level they had Annie Murphy playing Joan . But on the source level Annie was Joan’s real friend . So that was legit supposed to be the actress Annie in real life . But she had gave streamberry her likeness to play Joan on level 1?
They weren’t friends before they became friends the same way selma and Joan did
Thought the episode was fantastic. Can't wait to see the other breakdowns on the other episodes.
Yeah I finished episode 2 before and that was another banger
Wow really good episode!! Wasn't expecting that
You missed the house arrest ankle bands, that her and Annie Taylor were wearing, implying that we all are imprisoned even if we think we have our own free will, we're only being given that false sense of security.
I definitely liked the episode. But I have to say that the stupid lines that Salma Hayek said a few times in her dialogues with Anna Murphy were pretty cringy. That kind of humor is the most American thing ever. That is my only problem with Black Mirror: it has been Americanized.
Just watched this. Meta as fuck! Really great start to the new season. Spotted alot of the easter eggs
The song when she meets Mac is also in the karaoke scene from White Christmas
A little joke in the episode was Joan mistakenly pulling instead of pushing the doors. Small but made me smile.
That jarred a vague memory. Where is that from?
@@CandysChannel When Joan first goes into the lawyers entrance lobby, and again on the way out, Selma Hyack with the office wooden door and in this case played for even more comic effect.
@@cleddau No, I mean this scene is from another show or movie. That’s what I mean
You should do a video where you ranked your favorite episodes from the past seasons of black mirror.
Think white christmas and san junipero are my favourites but this season has been great too
Awesome episode!
This episode fits so well while every news are about ChatGPT and AI-constructed images/texts.
This was the first episode I’d watched in while and tbh, the really wish they kept the show British because at the end you were always left with this really bitter and depressing ending, whereas now everything ends very optimistically.
Agreed, Black Mirror should have remained british.
@@saulothebebop2581well the episode with Arron Paul is pretty depressing
I think people are done with depressing endings, not everyone for sure, but most people crave for some optimism after such a rough few years everyone lived. I like this type of episodes where a lot of reality is questioned and it still throws some depressing concepts and questions but end with a glipse of hope
@@lunchbrushagreed
ONE episode ended optimistically…or was it just the algorithm feeding us the most impactful content?
I loved the concept but think it couldve been better executed. It should've been more fearful as it would really wake society up about all these terms having such a rule over us how corporations run us all and how far it can go. This season isn't that good. Season 3 and 2 is the best especially with more realistic of the future like Nosedive, San Junipero, etc.
Black Mirror only has 4 season and a movie. Everything else doesn't exist
it’s good that you have an opinion even if it’s wrong
@@watching76Season 6 is the worst in black mirror
@@watching76 How can an opinion be wrong? You disagreeing with someone's opinion doesn't mean it's wrong lmao. There is no right or wrong when we are talking about opinions my dude
im glad im reading this comment, because i thought i was the only one that thought this episode (or the entire season, really) was really bland. The ending was just sooo poorly done, and it seemed like a "quick" fix to an ending. i was hoping to see more of Streamberry and how everything Joan did was being viewed by the whole world. they should have made it so Joan can "fast forward into the future" by skipping/seeking towards the end of the episode on her tv, so she can see what will happen. that way she can try to change the outcomes, or control the Joan in another reality etc.