San Junipero

The technological premise of this episode requires the audience to accept two propositions: (1) that the brain or the mind is a kind of computer that is therefore amenable to being translated into digital data and uploaded to a computer; (2) that such uploading amounts to the continuation of the same mind's existence. I don't accept either proposition, which is not to say that the story is without interest. A related idea is pursued in Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island.

Easily my favorite episode from Season 3. Who'd have thunk that a privileged cis white male like myself could enjoy a biracial lesbian love story? I actually hope that this tech becomes a reality in my lifetime.

The story doesn't feel very well-structured and well-paced, and it certainly gives a feeling that the arrangement of a lesbian relationship is for something other than a genuine requirement of the plots. All said, it still shows potentials to inspire possibly interesting questions, about finitude as what defines the weight of living, and how meaningfulness can't arise from anything but the emotional and retentional-protentional symphony of intimacy and separation: effectively, the dance of love.

This is my jam!

Lesbians

Hot damn

The way the onion is slowly peeled back works really well here. It also doesn't hurt that I loved the over-the-top 80s-ness of it.

Finally caught this one. Probably my second most favorite of the ones I’ve seen (love Black Museum ever so slightly more) but hit my heart in the nostalgia place. Going to be watching more of these with the cousin so we’ll see if I have a new favorite before long.

Seen: 2. Not so much "black" as it is tender and provocative.

Boring and without a payoff.