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removing the 'Cookie' containing the digital self is, and the snapshot of the existential

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The latest season of Black Mirror was met with mixed reviews. For some, it seemed a little less technophobic. But is this change for the better? Let's find out in this Wisecrack Edition on Black Mirror Season 5: Deep or Dumb?

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It's just a tiny snapshot into this island’s history

It's just a tiny snapshot into this island’s history.

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Black Mirror recently returned to Netflix with its fifth season and the response has

been... mixed, or at least more mixed than usual.

Many have noted that the show feels different, and they’re not wrong.

After diving into fan reactions, it seems the main criticisms of this season are, first:

that technology doesn’t drive the plot of episodes like in previous seasons, second:

that it isn't giving us the same head-scratching questions it used to, and third: that it feels

like it's lost its edge in how far the show is willing to go.

We’re going to find out in this Wisecrack Edition on Black Mirror Season 5: Deep or

Striking Vipers tells the story of estranged friends Danny and Karl, who rekindle their

friendship and much more through a VR video game called 'Striking Vipers'.

A morally ambiguous virtual fling ensues, but Danny breaks it off out of respect for

Unable to find the same kind of passion with another digital partner, Karl attempts to

They eventually decide to test their attraction in real life to lackluster results, and then

get into a real fight that blows the lid off their affair.

A compromise is reached at the end wherein Danny and Karl can hookup online once a year,

and Danny's wife can go to an ACTUAL bar and bang an actual dude, which feels a little

So, let’s go to the first issue technology no longer drives the episodes.

In Striking Vipers, we’re presented with a state of domestic equilibrium that is upset

once Karl introduces the TCKR virtual reality system into Danny’s life.

And this basic premise drives the entire drama of the episode Danny’s infidelity, whether

or not our two players have feelings for each other, and so on.

However, if we compare it to the episode “The Entire History of You, we can see a slight

Like Striking Vipers, this episode introduces a new gadget and frames it around a couple

Expanding how we document our lives on social media, “the grain” is an implant that

stores a perfect record of everything you've ever done for instant recall.

It even shares some of the same visual cues as Striking Vipers.

In The Entire History of You, the application of the “grain technology” escalates as

our protagonist uses it to uncover more and more troubling elements of the past.

Initially, it’s used to reflect on a job interview, or show off a vacation, then it’s

used to adjudicate a fight I didn't mean that.

 until finally, at the end, our protagonist is physically forcing someone to relive their

Striking Vipers, however, introduces the morally ambiguous application of technology at around

the twenty minute mark, and the rest of the conflict escalates only within the relationship

In other words, the premise that you can now use VR gaming to have sex via Avatars is established

early on and the ways in which the technology is used doesn’t escalate, save for the dude

Still, Striking Vipers is probably the most 'classic' Black Mirror of the three new episodes.

And that’s because the technology does create a premise which drives a series of philosophical

What does romance mean in a world where VR can beam ultra-realistic images into your

As porn gets more and more sophisticated, at what point does it become cheating?

What does that VR mean for sexuality, when a straight dude can embody a female avatar

and have virtual hetero sex with another straight dude?

Or, more broadly, how does VR technology affect our perception of self?

If Karl is attracted to other men but only when inhabiting a female avatar, can virtual

reality allow us access previously dormant aspects of our “self”?

Or are these aspects exclusive to the VR experience?

The influence of digital avatars on our meatspace selves is a pretty fascinating area of study.

In the book Infinite Reality, authors Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson detail several

studies exploring VR’s psychological effects and how VR DOES alters our perception of self

For instance, people inhabiting a taller avatar feel more confident during and after using

VR, inhabiting an attractive avatar makes people more warm and social, inhabiting older

avatars makes younger people more concerned about saving money, and using a physically

fit avatar makes people want to exercise more.

To be fair, the book isn’t about screwing people via digital proxies, but the larger

point can help inform our understanding of the episode.

As Striking Vipers suggests, the effects of VR aren’t just limited to the game both

Carl and Danny’s IRL relationships suffer, and it makes them ask basic questions about

who they are as they both have to consider if they truly love each other outside of the

They don’t, which raises the question of how much our physical bodies shape our relation

When we enter into a new corporeal form, do we also inhabit a whole new identity?

This more or less speaks to a mind-body exploration, but, more precisely, a mind-avatar one.

But, as many have pointed out, the episode doesn’t offer any firm answers to any of

And part of that leads into the third criticism that the show has lost its teeth.

Because it doesn’t offer any answers, it’s hard to see it as giving a biting commentary

Whereas The Entire History of You ends in the ruin of our protagonist’s marriage,

Striking Vipers ends with a more-or-less optimistic state of equilibrium.

Although this may be a new flavor of Black Mirror only seen occasionally in the likes

of San Junipero, it’s lack of soul-crushing pessimism doesn’t necessarily make it a

Although it breaks some elements of the Black Mirror formula, it’s still an episode with

BIG questions to ask about some REAL scientific and social issues.

So, this episode gets Wisecrack-certified 'DEEP'.

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