(Major spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t watched “Black Mirror” Season 3’s “San Junipero” and Season 4’s “Hang the DJ.”)
If you ask anyone what their favorite episode of “Black Mirror” is, you have about a 90 percent chance that the answer will be “San Junipero.” OK, that statistic isn’t real, but it might as well be with how much critical-acclaim and fan-love the Season 3 installment received. And Season 4’s “Hang the DJ” might be the next episode to tug at your heartstrings, thanks to another “happy ending.”
But don’t for a second think co-showrunners Annabel Jones and Charlie Brooker were trying to pull a “San Junipero” this season — partially because the “San Junipero” you know and love hadn’t become the cultural obsession it is now (or received the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie) until after the pair were already deep in the throes of Season 4.