SPOILER WARNING: The next article incorporates main spoilers for the Black Mirror Season 7 episode “Resort Reverie.” When you haven’t watched it but, please flip again and test it out together with your Netflix subscription earlier than continuing any additional.
Since its debut greater than a decade in the past, Black Mirror has given viewers among the darkest episodes of TV ever, just a few dozen unforgettable tales concerning the pitfalls of know-how, and stunning endings none of us will quickly neglect. And it seems to be like that pattern is continuous with the present’s seventh season, which simply premiered on the 2025 TV schedule. And whereas I haven’t had an opportunity to dive into all six of the brand new tales like “Frequent Individuals” or “USS Callister: Into Infinity” (that can change quickly sufficient), I did spend a while with “Resort Reverie,” a transfixing (and in depth) story about an actress recreating a basic black-and-white movie.
Let me let you know, I’ve watched my fair proportion of the greatest Black Mirror episodes over time, however “Resort Reverie” has what might be probably the most haunting and heartbreaking endings the present has ever created. And yeah, I’ve to speak about it…
So, What Occurs At The Finish Of Resort Reverie?
Those that have watched the episode know that it facilities on annoyed actress Brandy Friday (Issa Rae) as she is employed by an AI firm and a struggling movie studio to remake a basic black-and-white movie, Resort Reverie. After being positioned within the movie because the gender-swapped male lead, Brandy turns into trapped in this system (solely hours for these in the true world, however weeks for her). Throughout that point, she varieties an intense romantic relationship with the digital reconstruction of the film’s most important character, Clara Ryce-Lechere, who’s performed for the fictional actress, the late Dorothy Chambers’ (Emma Corrin).
After a sequence of missed cues and unsuitable traces, this system begins to disintegrate and deviate from the unique movie, with Clara being shot and killed on the finish as an alternative of surviving till the credit roll. Brandy is introduced out of this system earlier than she will get trapped in it without end and is given a particular cellphone by Redream consultant Kimmy (Awkwafine) to reconnect with Dorothy, or at the least a digital model of the late actress.
Brandy Getting To Reconnect With The AI Model Of Dorothy Was Romantic, However It is Like Speaking To A Digital Ghost
Whereas I’ll admit that Brandy attending to reconnect with Dorothy utilizing that wild rotary cellphone was romantic and supplied some closure (and possibly a touch at her future), I have to level out that that is totally haunting and heartbreaking. It’s like she is speaking to a digital ghost, however there’s additionally one thing extra tragic to all of it.
It’s identified early within the episode of the 2025 Netflix present that the true Dorothy had a tragic ending to her life after being chewed up and spit out by the Hollywood machine greater than a half-century earlier. This isn’t Brandy talking with Dorothy or falling in love together with her, however as an alternative a digital recreation of her, like some AI girlfriend whose sole function is to meet the emotional (and possibly bodily) wants of the person. And I believe possibly that’s the purpose…
And In A Manner, That is Extra Haunting And Heartbreaking Than Being Trapped In A Pc Program
I’m not saying being trapped in a digital recreation of a black-and-white film wouldn’t be a horrible destiny, however Brandy’s relationship with Dorothy transferring ahead appears much more haunting and heartbreaking. No less than in Resort Reverie, the actress was capable of see and contact the lady she liked; she now can solely discuss to her over the cellphone, and even then it’s one other digital ghost that has no reminiscence of their time collectively or their experiences.
However that is the bittersweet and haunting ending that makes “Resort Reverie” a lot enjoyable to consider. Brandy survived, however she got here again to a world that’s vastly totally different than the one wherein she lived only some hours earlier.
Now that the whole thing of Black Mirror Season 7 has been added to Netflix, all I can do is watch the remaining 5 episodes from the good anthology sequence and see in the event that they influence me on this method.