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- The Ending of Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 2 "Playtest" (2016) Explained.
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Katie: “you might feel a slight twinge as it initializes*
Cooper: *dies*
lol
*phone ring*
*dead*
Imagine the guilt his mom must feel once she finds out her well-meaning attempt to get in contact with her distant son is what ended up killing him…
I’m pretty sure she had dementia though so she probably wouldn’t even know.
That’s what’s makes it more unsettling about it
How would she find out? The company will never admit to it
she'll never know
@@bzq122 How do you know? Maybe she has already known
The way he cries for his mother is fucking haunting.
Same! That almost made me bawl instantly
That last bit of the episode was almost traumatic, engraved in my mind for some time. Like it brought out something primitive or fundamental in me, like a child. Great episode.
@@lnlyby_yt Same, White Christmas and White Bear did that too. Shut up and dance as well. I think Black Mirror is the most messed up show ever made.
@@EnigmaGameMaster that’s what makes it intriguing & relatable. Most of the episodes are literally happening to us or some other people in the world. The obsession of social media, status far as our job(classism) being pressured into doing things against your own will, infidelity, dating in this crazy world world, injustice, helicopter parenting etc
His brain is malfunctioning and somehow is able to know that his “Mom” is calling the phone. He’s not “crying for her”
Cooper was played so well by that actor. He pulled off the hipster derp really well THEN seals it with horror AND THEN the ending. Dude's pretty good.
Kurt Russell's son.
@@Sharpstoned That's fuggin dope
I didn't think he was a good actor until seeing this. Playtest really cemented him as a talent imo.
@@Sharpstoned THATS WHY HE LOOKED FAMILIAR THANK YOU OMG
i really believed the character he's playing. Its like watching a real person with real personality. Impressive.
Playtest is one of those Black Mirror episodes that is too unsettling to watch until the end. Technology has its dark side, after all, and somehow it’s us humans who have to pay the consequences as a result of abusing them.
Great insight. You rock.
Sounds pretty sus to me
Of course humans pay the consequences of the negative sides of technology. Technology exists to make things easier for humans. We have not invented anything that we didn’t think would benefit us in either a direct or non direct way. There is always a negative, whether it is increased laziness, increased social withdrawal and escapism toward more and more stimulating games and vr, to false senses of self intelligence when the intelligence is based on instant access to information.
Somehow it's humans that have to deal with the consequences of human inventions 🤔
destroy it all. We don't need technology.
With Cooper dead, his mom is now alone... Missing her son. And she'll never know he died. :(
Heart breaking 💔
I'll always believe that the "nightmare" was just his life flashing before his eyes
That is so scary, I love it
@@BryceEdwardBrown why thank you
This is exactly what it was
This occured to me the 3rd time watching it
Well, so all there was to his life was one bully, spiders, the girl he met in UK and his mom? Where was his father? His friends? His former lovers? Teachers? Etc.?
Good theory, but the content he visualized is too brief to be a life summary.
Here’s another fun Easter egg for the Japanese dialogue: if you watch the episode in the Japanese voices, all of Saito and Katie’s lines are dubbed over on purpose, even the spoken Japanese parts EXCEPT at the very end, after Cooper’s mom calls. When Katie and Saito discuss what happened, they actually use the original actors’ dialogue (sans the “Mom” line from Katie). My guess is to also show that this was the actual reality, not the one nor the perceived voices inside Cooper’s subconscious.
Also a strange oversight or a purposeful mistake is Katie mispronouncing Saito’s name initially when introducing Cooper to him in the English dialogue voices.
I did find it strange how he doesn't under the word "fun" then proceeds to have a full conversation in English
@@karolclark791I believed that he had just learnt enough English to be able to have that specific conversation only. Like memorizing what he had to say. So he didn't know the basic word "fun" because it wasn't meant to be a part of the conversation.
I watched it on Netflix Japan, wouldn't have noticed that if I didn't read this comment
they didnt dubbed the mum in the hungarian version neither
40 mins in 0.04s. This is was a total awesome horror thriller suspense short movie!!!! This was better than many movies. This is the ultimate twilight zone vibe.
Awesome breakdown!! I definitely think that the signature page that was “missing” from the release, was done in purpose. And the document that Katie came back with was completely different and Cooper literally signed his life away.
nahhhh because if the company was keen on keeping Saito's latest game a secret, Katie wouldnt have even kept Connor's phone in the same room with him. Katie is portrayed as rlly intuitive imo and it felt so out of character when she came back with the papers and didnt even question the fact that his phone turned back on when his mum called. Maybe they didnt thoroughly test to see if phone signals could tamper with the cookie or whatever but idk i think youre really right.
several years ago when a friend asked if I would get an implant in my brain once they were out on the market, I said yea it sounds cool and I'm not afraid of it. This episode has changed my mind.
WakeY WakeY
Riiiiiigghhhhht mark of the beast dude catch up woke tard bet you had a good few covid shots to FRIGHTENING YOU CAN VOTE AND RASE CHILDREN
Fact thats what i was thinking
@@jeeezkxyyy6250 Well, I would imagine by the time they hit the market they would be incredibly well tested- especially for things as this episode addresses.
He was a beta tester. Once they're a few years out on the market, they'd be as dangerous as any technology we already have today.
this episode is so underrated. beautifully acted and truly haunting episode.
This episode is so scary to me, probably their freakiest one yet and it's hard for me to watch all the way through. I've probably seen it 7 times in all, meanwhile I could watch any BM episode over and over again and I have haha. White Christmas with Jon Hamm is my absolute favorite, he was MADE for that role (literally, the episode director had Jon in mind to play it 😏)
3:40 good job on that “real time” edit! It’s somehow even creepier to see how it actually played out like that.
Thank you! It felt weird seeing it in real time for the first time, agreed that it's really creepy and unsettling... Gotta love Black Mirror!
The most disturbing shot in this episode is Sonia shoving that filthy knife into the butter.
Lol right ! So unnecessary
The part where he calls out for his mom before dying is what gets me... just too fking brutal m8
Tbh when I clicked this video I figured it was just going to be some rehash of the episode's basic premise, but I was real impressed how deep and psychological everything actually was. Definitely interested in hearing more from you!
This episode put me through a spin, it was so saddening how he died. Its such a scary yet psycho experience
First he shouldn't have never turned his phone on in the first place; all he had to do is call his mother, then she wouldn't have to call him! That was the simple lesson from this story.
Sonja even said your second point to Cooper early in the episode.
I love how he reads with script with such excitement u know he loves what he’s talking about
The top props i can give to the jumpscares in this episode was the spider with human--like features. That made me sh1t inside. I even had a nightmare like that (after this episode), where a machine produced human/spider like creatures. They even had the big black dark eyes without pupils or iris. (6 or 8 eyes) THEY EVEN HAD HAIR ON THEIR LEGS!
But something told me that they were harmless and more afraid of me then i was of them.
Btw they had an average size of an adult house-cat, so they were pretty big on my opinion.
You’re the reason we don’t have good horror movies anymore.. The guy really getting ptsd from a spider made in blender 🤦♂️ If you’re that weak, stay on cartoons. It’s funny how some people find these episodes disturbing when in fact they’re barely watchable (recycling the old formulas on a more boring timeline).
@@kryptonkx-personaluse-3826ur just a kid who didn't like the ep and got offended 😂
10/10 Sly Cooper reference
Thank you.
I wasn't a fan of this episode when I saw it, but it's interesting you mentioning all the parallels between things he saw in the real world and things he dreamt later, similar to Mulholland Drive.
My main problem with the episode is that none of the things he experienced, nor his death, meant anything. It's literally just an "it was all a dream" ending. And his death was apparently a complete accident. If they had known that phone signals could kill somebody connected to the machine, they would have been super strict about it from the beginning, searching or scanning him for any similar devices, letting him know about the risks and making him leave his phone outside the room, preferably in a box which completely blocks phone signals.
There's nothing to be learnt from his death. He didn't die because of his poor relationship with his mum, he didn't die because of his thrillseeking lifestyle, he died because he tried an experimental technology before they'd ironed out all the bugs.
Did anyone notice that when he first entered the gaming company and while he was walking around what he jokingly referred to as “Hogwarts” there was a guy (or girl) working on a character model. That exact same model was his childhood bully “Josh Peters” this makes me wonder when did those 0.05 seconds start?? This is the one episode that still has me thinking
This episode hits kinda close to home. I have temporal lobe epilepsy with seizure auras and this episode pretty much gets the aura down to a T. It takes seconds for the actual seizure to kick in and I black out but the fear and horror seems to last an eternity until I finally black out. I get the feeling I’m some place I shouldn’t be and there is someone or something that doesn’t want me there. I get Jamais vu (opposite of de ja vu) so my most common and well known environment can become completely foreign and unrecognizable. Fun thing too is they want to implant something into my vagus nerve to try and help control them. It was crazy though when she mentioned the brain firing off all at once because that’s what happens to the neurons in your brain during the seizure. Also usually the neurons fire about 80 times a second but during a seizure they can fire up to 500 times a second. The episode was really really crazy. Then at the end it shows him pretty much having a seizure.
I unfortunately know exactly what you're talking about :(
@@thenewspike231 we are warriors! Never give up never surrender!
My mother had the same type of seizures and described her auras in a pretty similar way. She got the same kind of implant. Unfortunately it did not help her seizures. They got more and more frequent.. but they were able to locate the exact little spot in her brain that was causing the seizures and removed it. Not a seizure in over ten years. I do hope the implant works for you! I hope that your epilepsy can be managed and that you are seizure free soon.
I had a seizure one time(at least thats what the doctors told my parents) and im not sure if this is how it’s supposed to be like but when i went through it, i was in the hospital bed staring at the door one min, then the next second, i see my dad in at the end of my bed telling me that the doctors said i had a seizure. There was no blacking out for me. Is that normal?
His scenes with the mother were haunting
Literal nightmare fuel
This really made me appreciate the episode more. Now I gotta rewatch it
I'm honestly so glad to hear that!
I never even realized his name name is Cooper Redfield which is similar to Chris redfield from resident evil which is a video game about being in a spooky mansion
Oh oops he mentioned it lol
An AMAZING analysis. I watched the show way back and completely forgot about how it rolled out, but before watching this I gave the episode another go and its absolutely mind blowing. this episode just made the whole experience better because I uncovered a lot of things I didn't notice.
The assistant switched off his phone, he died because he switched on his phone to send pictures to Sonya (breaking his NDA). 🤷🏽
Crazy that all that he experienced in the episode all happened in less than 1 second.
Yep they be pulling Chimera Ant Arc trick here
What? It was 4 seconds.
.04 is 4 seconds. Yall need to go back to school 🤣🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️
Greatest episode in the series. Terrifying and emotionally resonant
Your black mirror breakdowns are my absolute favourite!😁
Comments like these make me want to keep making them!
You'd think they just take peoples phones away to make sure..
Right?!
Love this video! Really enjoyed the analysis! I find lots of “analysis” videos are really just re summarizing, so I appreciate the thought in your videos!
Thank you @ziggyo0o393, that means a lot! I really do try to provide the most insight “analysis” I possibly can, I don't get why other creators just summarize stuff
This is the only episode that I believe has a genuinely good ending. Him dying is part of the game. That was his biggest fear being realized: dying alone, in a foreign country, without his mom knowing where he went or if he will ever return to her.
your analysis is insaneely good. I wish I actually payed attention to the little details so I wouldve noticed the foreshadowing
Great explanation! I'm also very impressed with all the "Easter Eggs" you detected.
Id go as far as to say its deeper inset trauma mixed with the load stimuli from the game tha specially hit all his fears at once whilst it happens in less than a second the brain processes it at light speed and he perceived it stretched to well the whole episode
This is my favorite episode. So freaking sad.
The ending is just heartbreaking
@@BryceEdwardBrown i know right 😢
Great video but I wanted to point out that Andrew Ryan didn’t program the protagonist of Bioshock to respond to the phrase “Would you kindly,” it was Frank Fontaine. He was using that phrase on the protagonist to get him to kill Andrew Ryan, and Andrew Ryan revealed it to the protagonist.
damn. that's a whole lot of details from a 40mins film. great job!
Thank you! I had no idea I could talk this long about one episode
21:30
It's the same in Japanese too.
The kanji for death and 4 share the same reading: "shi". From what i've seen "yon" is a more common way of saying the number 4 as it avoids the "death" reading
The whole bit about midnight club having the record for jump scares is that it’s a brief scene that’s astory within a story making use of jump scares and then everyone else rags on her for relying on jump scares.
Every single time i felt safe for Cooper everything falls apart
Right, it's brilliant!
There are anal-retentive obsessives and then there is you. I cannot remember an analysis video on UA-cam that I've enjoyed this much. Thoroughly detailed, brilliant observations of the film language and humorous enough but not distractingly so.
Really well done, sir.
Amazing detailed review! The only detail I'd like to add, referring to Resident Evil series is that the house from Harlech Shadow looks almost like The Spencer Mansion from Resident Evil 1.
He was set up by that girl. After he gets with her she drains his acct while he sleeps. When he finds himself broke he goes back to her and she directs him to Saito. He then dies within 4 seconds of starting the test. Really strange how the assistant to a high tech gaming company can forget a page to the consent forms.
It’s only because of the turned on phone he died. We will never know what actually would’ve happened.
no you got fooled that was just his imagination not real her
This episode is so sad :( his poor mother
I actually appreciate that this video explained it in a mere 4 minutes, albeit with a better longer explanation afterwards. Thanks for not keeping us waiting.
Loving these Black Mirror videos! I loved that show so much.
Glad to hear, more on the way!
Another part is coming this Thursday
This analysis is absolutely incredible! THANK YOY!
Thank you, I'm glad to hear that!
Loved this analysis so much…. You observed way too many details, loved it honestly!
How did he pronounce the word "mom" couple times in less than 0.04 seconds?
Funny how Sonja referred to Cooper’s scar as a “battle scar”, then Cooper is stabbed in the same place by red Sonja later.
I KNEW there was a reason her saying “would you kindly” hit me differently
This break down is brilliant!
It wasn't Ryan using "Would you kindly"
It was atlas aka Frank fontaine. Yeah Ryan did use it at the literal end of the game, but it's misleading to say he was controlling Jack the whole time
amazing video as always king 👑 and my favorite bm episode
Solid favorite, thank you @partor3566!
Just to add about the significance of the number 4. There's 4 more bars left on his headset until the upload was complete. Damn
Playtest absolutely reminds me of the last acid trip I took It was an absolute hellish experience where I couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't by the end of it and was left in a mental state where I thought that I had slipped into the wrong timeline and the only way to get back to my original timeline was to kill myself in the false timeline, Play test really hit home with me
omg are you literally me? I just finished watching it and I'm having a mild panick attack rn. That one trip I had felt like this EXACTLY. Couldn't distinguish reality from what's inside my head, and everytime I thought I break out of it I was still there, the endless spiraling, fractal-like mind prison. The insecurity lasted for days even after the trip. sheesh. Even now a little.. I think I'm traumatized for good.
@@gnosisi it's okay at least there is someone else who gets it, it'll probably be with you forever. Luckily I already had that happen with salvia so after I sobered up I knew how to cope with it, but yeah it was like waking up into a different nightmare over and over and over.
That lady needs to carry a checklist around to make sure she's reminding people to turn off their phones beforehand.
Right?! lol
she did didn't she ?? it's been a while but i think she did and then he turned it back on so that he could take a pic of what the company was doing and forgot to turn it back off
@@niceguysfinishlast she shouldn’t have brought the phone into the room in the first place
This episode made me pick up the phone every time my mom calls. Busy or not.
This was one of the best episodes of Black Mirror!!!
+1
I remember that I never had a dream where I "woke up" and it ended up still being a dream until after I had learned of the concept itself in life. I remember as a kid learning about the concept of "lucid dreaming" and my inclination when I finally realized I was in a dream was to make myself "wake up", I guess because I was drawn to the idea of willing myself from one reality to another(???). That was the best I could come up with at the time, and so I "woke up" and found myself sitting in an attic, with a light, some Shel Silverstein shizzz, and then totally forgot I was dreaming. Since then I've seen everything mainstream media has to offer about dreams and whatnot, and only since then have my dreams-within-dreams gotten crazier. I kinda doubt that people had dreams within dreams as much 30-40+ years ago. It's a concept that didn't really exist in the Zeitgeist, the hive mind, the collective consciousness, and so it's sort of a modern phenomenon. Maybe I'm wrong. After all, I didn't exist 40+ years ago.
Don't pay attention to the headlines about The Midnight Club's Guinness World Record for jump scares. If you hate jump scares but like Ari Aster, and San Junipero, you would probably dig the show as well as all of Mike Flanagan's other stuff! The whole point of the massive amount of jump scares is a meta joke about how crappy jump scares are as a tactic in horror movies. All of his Netflix shows (haven't seen all of Flanagan's movies yet) are deeply touching metaphors that usually make me cry more than be scared.
loveeee these videos, so interesting!!!!
Wyatt Russell is effortlessly likeable. Hard to get away with when both parents are famous.
I was watching it thinking he looks like Kurt Russell, I thought Goldie Hawn only had two kids, Kate and Oliver Hudson 😂
Been holding off watching this because the ep scared me so much. I'm not prone to being scared by movies, but Play Test fucking haunts me
I love the fact that this can be some years in the future, yet there's still no portal 3
My mom just died from complications of Alzheimer’s. It’s going to be a long time before I can watch, “Playtest” again 😔
You’re really missing Black Mirror:( I hope they comeback!!! I LOVE the Easter Eggs!
A new season has recently came out!
Well, I’m pretty new to black mirror. I first watch season six now I’m on season three the first episode of season six kinda ended happy but every episode I’ve watched now ends in dramatic and terrible ways and I’m like damn.
16:07 the lions on the wallpaper are ''dutch lions'' or ''leeuwen van oranje''. the background is even in the colour orange.
curious if someone can figure out if this is related to an easter egg or something.
I like the magazine’s reference to the game papers please with a review for “papers please 3”. Definitely a fitting game to reference in this universe.
Adding the noise speakers make when a cell phone goes off nearby was clever.
please never stop making black mirror videos i love them too much.
Can't stop, won't stop! and thanks for watching them!
YOUR MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGH! i'm hooked! can't wait to watch all the vids. thank u!
This episode on shrooms was mind blowing r.i.p cooper
Why do nobody mention that it’s weird for a young woman to live alone in a big apartment with high ceiling in freaking London. The place is huge and modern. To me that’s a clue that she’s getting big money from the gaming Company
My takeaway was more personal as I've been avoiding my mom's calls for years. I'm definitely not answering now.
In episode Men Against Fire the main character Stripe Koinange finds a Raven in the house and released him, which can symbolize his liberation from MASS neural implant influence....
Had a bunch of edibles while watching this and it was not a pleasant experience.
Ok i watched the first analyse and i was shocked how good it was but that one is even better and idk how you topped the first one
I just rewatched this episode earlier today while under the influence of the special cookie ingredient. And even weirder I watched the previous Playtest explained video just last night. Getting a bit Black Mirror up in here.
this episode was INSANE.
Bruh, it was Fontaine/Atlas who used the "Would you kindly phrase" to manipulate Jack, not Andrew Ryan. He only says it once or twice while revealing the twist.
I showed this to two of my friends a couple days ago and man are they traumatized now
I went into this episode expecting it to be the typical “evil company that secretly lures in people to experiment on them against their will” kind of story, so the conflict just being the result of a genuine mistake with nothing nefarious going on (at least that we know for sure) was actually kind of refreshing
I loved this so much. I watched it 3 times.
i love black mirror and i love bioschock, 30 seconds into the video and i'm already sold
Hope for a new Black mirror season
That symbol is also in the black mirror game. Bandersnach. Its the symbol for split paths.
Papers please 3 is also a reference to the entire concept of black mirror
It's a game that's on the surface is a rules sim having to check specific parameters for specific people enter
But in reality it's a game that plays with morality and individuality and to show the greys of morality similar to black mirror
This was the scariest episode yet! This thing is fucking terrifying! This episode just gave me more reasons to not play horror games.
Please make a video explaining Bandersnatch 🙏
This episode hasn’t left me since the first time I watched it. Could never watch it again. So thanks for this lmao
With the matter-of-fact and almost prepared way they took away his body, we can conclude this isn’t the first time someone died. You’d think the company would take stricter safety measures like really double checking all phones are off or even asking participants to leave their stuff in a locker or something. Doesn’t make sense for them to be so sloppy when death is a serious risk. Either this was for plot convenience or the company is seriously just straight-up evil? Or do you guys think this *was* the test and they just wanted to see if he’d secretly turn on his phone, hence the ‘forgotten’ page of the contract. Still doesn’t make sense they’d leave him at risk of dying after that though. Bit nonsensical but I guess we wouldn’t have an episode if it was a normal company. 😋
Poor man didn't deserve that.
Should have turned his phone off
True, but maybe should have not tried to sneak the photo lol After all the Edge magazine cover told him to fear Shou Saito
This episode had the biggest impact on me as a vivid dreamer my whole life still to this day i like to keep reality and fantasy far apart, so i dont get confused ive had those waking up in a dream, dreams and with enough layers and confusion you genuinely dont know whats real and the following day youre overcome by dread and paranoia at least in my experience i never wouldve signed up for what cooper did cuz like i said i like to keep reality and fantasy separate but it was harrowing to see everythting slowly get worse for him and then the twist is that it was all in his head off topic but it reminded me of a paranoid thought i have sometimes that being that im dying and my life right now is just my life flashing before my eyes either way at the end ill be dead all the same but its a weird thought or maybe that im dreaming and one day ill wake up to a life i dont recognise with a face i dont know anyway crazy episode super freaky😅