Black Mirror

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San Junipero
Series 3, Ep.4 of “Black Mirror”
Directed by: Owen Harris
Gay characters: Mackenzie Davis (Yorkie), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Kelly)
UK | 2016 | 61 min

The episode, set in 1987 (while the present day real world is 2040) in a beach resort town named San Junipero, tells the story of Yorkie, a shy young woman visiting the town and falling in love with a local, Kelly.
The setting at first appears to be a vibrant California-like beach resort town, San Junipero, in 1987. A shy, sheltered young woman, Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis), is visiting San Junipero for the first time, and she awkwardly enters a crowded local bar called Tucker’s. Suddenly, Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a vivacious party girl, sits next to Yorkie, pretending the two are friends to try to ditch Wes, a man Kelly once had a fling with. Kelly gets Wes to leave by saying she needs to spend quality time with Yorkie, who only has five months left to live. Kelly and Yorkie then get to know each other for real. Their sexual tension rises until Kelly invites Yorkie to dance and Yorkie begins but, increasingly embarrassed, runs out of the bar. When Kelly comes after her and offers to have sex with her, Yorkie tells Kelly she is engaged to a man named Greg. This does not stop Kelly’s advances, but Yorkie, though clearly interested, walks away.

One of the following weeks, Yorkie searches for, but cannot find, Kelly. Spotting Wes, Yorkie asks him where Kelly is, but his only advice is to “try a different time” and that he has “seen her in ‘80, the '90s, 2002 one time”. Yorkie then spends the following weeks in those times, searching for Kelly. She eventually finds her in 2002…

Black Mirror
Channel 4 / Netflix Sci-Fi anthology series
Created by: Charlie Brooker
UK | 2011-
Black Mirror is centred around dark and satirical themes that examine modern society, particularly with regard to the unanticipated consequences of new technologies. Episodes are standalone works, usually set in an alternative present or the near future. The show was first broadcast on the British Channel 4, in 2011. In September 2015, Netflix commissioned a third season of 12 episodes.[2] The commissioned episodes were later divided into two seasons of six episodes; the third season was released on Netflix worldwide on 21 October 2016.