I will concentrate on the episode San Junipero because I really enjoyed it and thought the technology and ideas behind it were fascinating. The episode starts out with Yorkie and Kelly meeting each other in a dance/game club. They were opposites in many ways but attracted to each other most likely for that exact reason. As the show progresses Yorkie can’t find Kelly and you quickly start to realize that there is something strange going on but it difficult to realize what.
Before long I finally realized that they are in a virtual world (probably took me longer than most). This was immediately a brain buster. I was confused on how they got there and if it was by choice or maybe because earth got over populated. The facts start rolling in during the scene where Kelly visits Yorkie at the nursing home. They are both old now and apparently back on Earth. Kelly finds out that Yorkie is a paraplegic and her time is limited. Yorkie has chosen to marry to be able to get consent to basically commit her time after death to San Junipero. We also learn that people alive can only visit for a limited time before having to come back to Earth.
My first thought was is this an option over Heaven? Like you can choose to live in a cloud-based reality that you know and have visited over taking the unknown route of life after death. Obviously, Yorkie had made her decision to commit to San Junipero, but we see later in the show that Kelly hasn’t quite been able to process the decision yet. This led to an emotional scene where Kelly shed light on her past and the conflicts she had. The end of the episode was weird when Kelly’s hard drive was being uploaded to the data bank. Makes you wonder if something like this is possible one day…