Katie: “you might feel a slight twinge as it initializes* Cooper: *dies*

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

lol

@mysouptoocold1656

10 ай бұрын

*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…

@ajbanky7870

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure she had dementia though so she probably wouldn’t even know.

@devantesinclair9109

Жыл бұрын

That’s what’s makes it more unsettling about it

@harambe420ontheinterwebs

Жыл бұрын

How would she find out? The company will never admit to it

@bzq122

Жыл бұрын

she'll never know

@Askhad96

Жыл бұрын

@@bzq122 How do you know? Maybe she has already known

The way he cries for his mother is fucking haunting.

@TruthNeverFade

Жыл бұрын

Same! That almost made me bawl instantly

@lnlyby_yt

Жыл бұрын

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.

@EnigmaGameMaster

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@J_WheelerDoll30

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@Burialofagod

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Sharpstoned

Жыл бұрын

Kurt Russell's son.

@newguy3588

Жыл бұрын

@@Sharpstoned That's fuggin dope

@BlyGuy

Жыл бұрын

I didn't think he was a good actor until seeing this. Playtest really cemented him as a talent imo.

@cavescratchings

Жыл бұрын

@@Sharpstoned THATS WHY HE LOOKED FAMILIAR THANK YOU OMG

@NanNan-bz7qh

Жыл бұрын

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.

@ButtersCCookie

Жыл бұрын

Great insight. You rock.

@willisverynice

Жыл бұрын

Sounds pretty sus to me

@user-tz2zz5ij1s

Жыл бұрын

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.

@mrgainz7252

Жыл бұрын

Somehow it's humans that have to deal with the consequences of human inventions 🤔

@kroneexe

11 ай бұрын

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. :(

@Healthevoid

10 ай бұрын

Heart breaking 💔

I'll always believe that the "nightmare" was just his life flashing before his eyes

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

That is so scary, I love it

@DTowns1Finest

Жыл бұрын

@@BryceEdwardBrown why thank you

@MsDarra

10 ай бұрын

This is exactly what it was

@HigherDarkness

5 күн бұрын

This occured to me the 3rd time watching it

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.

@karolclark791

Жыл бұрын

I did find it strange how he doesn't under the word "fun" then proceeds to have a full conversation in English

@kuaram8217

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

@asuka-ryo

10 ай бұрын

I watched it on Netflix Japan, wouldn't have noticed that if I didn't read this comment

@kamillakovago2488

4 ай бұрын

they didnt dubbed the mum in the hungarian version neither

this episode is so underrated. beautifully acted and truly haunting episode.

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.

@TertiaryQuota

8 ай бұрын

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.

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 😏)

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.

@06DarKKlowN06

Жыл бұрын

WakeY WakeY

@audie-cashstack-uk4881

Жыл бұрын

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

@jeeezkxyyy6250

Жыл бұрын

Fact thats what i was thinking

@JNB0723

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@goodjoejoe

10 ай бұрын

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 put me through a spin, it was so saddening how he died. Its such a scary yet psycho experience

3:40 good job on that “real time” edit! It’s somehow even creepier to see how it actually played out like that.

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

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 part where he calls out for his mom before dying is what gets me... just too fking brutal m8

10/10 Sly Cooper reference

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

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!

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.

@elliottpak

10 ай бұрын

Sonja even said your second point to Cooper early in the episode.

The most disturbing shot in this episode is Sonia shoving that filthy knife into the butter.

@Healthevoid

10 ай бұрын

Lol right ! So unnecessary

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.

@bryanvonstase6755

Жыл бұрын

Btw they had an average size of an adult house-cat, so they were pretty big on my opinion.

@kryptonkx-personaluse-3826

6 ай бұрын

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).

@thatguywhoasked2823

5 ай бұрын

​@@kryptonkx-personaluse-3826ur just a kid who didn't like the ep and got offended 😂

I love how he reads with script with such excitement u know he loves what he’s talking about

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.

@8bitbrawler11

11 ай бұрын

I unfortunately know exactly what you're talking about :(

@TLEawareness

11 ай бұрын

@@8bitbrawler11 we are warriors! Never give up never surrender!

@stefaniskaya1283

10 ай бұрын

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 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 really made me appreciate the episode more. Now I gotta rewatch it

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

I'm honestly so glad to hear that!

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.

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!

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

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

Your black mirror breakdowns are my absolute favourite!😁

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Comments like these make me want to keep making them!

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.

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

@gnosisi

5 ай бұрын

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.

@someweirdguy5721

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

Greatest episode in the series. Terrifying and emotionally resonant

Great explanation! I'm also very impressed with all the "Easter Eggs" you detected.

your analysis is insaneely good. I wish I actually payed attention to the little details so I wouldve noticed the foreshadowing

The assistant switched off his phone, he died because he switched on his phone to send pictures to Sonya (breaking his NDA). 🤷🏽

damn. that's a whole lot of details from a 40mins film. great job!

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I had no idea I could talk this long about one episode

Loved this analysis so much…. You observed way too many details, loved it honestly!

There are anal-retentive obsessives and then there is you. I cannot remember an analysis video on KZread 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.

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

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.

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.

His scenes with the mother were haunting

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Literal nightmare fuel

Loving these Black Mirror videos! I loved that show so much.

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear, more on the way!

@eveheart2876

11 ай бұрын

Another part is coming this Thursday

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.

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

@gishigoshi

10 ай бұрын

Oh oops he mentioned it lol

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

This break down is brilliant!

amazing video as always king 👑 and my favorite bm episode

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Solid favorite, thank you @partor3566!

This is my favorite episode. So freaking sad.

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

The ending is just heartbreaking

@tawogparody9298

Жыл бұрын

@@BryceEdwardBrown i know right 😢

This was one of the best episodes of Black Mirror!!!

@Anyway120

4 ай бұрын

+1

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

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.

Crazy that all that he experienced in the episode all happened in less than 1 second.

@woolsheepthree

10 ай бұрын

Yep they be pulling Chimera Ant Arc trick here

@ismaelalvarez8661

Ай бұрын

What? It was 4 seconds. .04 is 4 seconds. Yall need to go back to school 🤣🤣🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

loveeee these videos, so interesting!!!!

This episode made me pick up the phone every time my mom calls. Busy or not.

This episode is so sad :( his poor mother

This analysis is absolutely incredible! THANK YOY!

@BryceEdwardBrown

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad to hear that!

I KNEW there was a reason her saying “would you kindly” hit me differently

Every single time i felt safe for Cooper everything falls apart

@BryceEdwardBrown

10 ай бұрын

Right, it's brilliant!

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.

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

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

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.

@alceusrydan6237

10 ай бұрын

It’s only because of the turned on phone he died. We will never know what actually would’ve happened.

@jj-mj5bc

8 күн бұрын

no you got fooled that was just his imagination not real her

You’re really missing Black Mirror:( I hope they comeback!!! I LOVE the Easter Eggs!

@Johnny-hn9ts

7 ай бұрын

A new season has recently came out!

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.

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.

I loved this so much. I watched it 3 times.

YOUR MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGH! i'm hooked! can't wait to watch all the vids. thank u!

You'd think they just take peoples phones away to make sure..

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Right?!

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.

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

I love the fact that this can be some years in the future, yet there's still no portal 3

My takeaway was more personal as I've been avoiding my mom's calls for years. I'm definitely not answering now.

My mom just died from complications of Alzheimer’s. It’s going to be a long time before I can watch, “Playtest” again 😔

That lady needs to carry a checklist around to make sure she's reminding people to turn off their phones beforehand.

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Right?! lol

@niceguysfinishlast

Жыл бұрын

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

@Mary-pt8jm

10 ай бұрын

@@niceguysfinishlast she shouldn’t have brought the phone into the room in the first place

Funny how Sonja referred to Cooper’s scar as a “battle scar”, then Cooper is stabbed in the same place by red Sonja later.

How did he pronounce the word "mom" couple times in less than 0.04 seconds?

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.

Wyatt Russell is effortlessly likeable. Hard to get away with when both parents are famous.

@TayWoode

4 ай бұрын

I was watching it thinking he looks like Kurt Russell, I thought Goldie Hawn only had two kids, Kate and Oliver Hudson 😂

Please make a video explaining Bandersnatch 🙏

I showed this to two of my friends a couple days ago and man are they traumatized now

The national anthem is really dark no cap but personally this episode made me broke down crying

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.

This episode hasn’t left me since the first time I watched it. Could never watch it again. So thanks for this lmao

So good to hear some BLACK MIRROR again from you. Thanks !! 🫡🫡

This episode on shrooms was mind blowing r.i.p cooper

THIS EPISODE OF BLACK MIRROR DISTURBED ME THE MOST! ESPECIALLY THE END SCENE WHEN HIS HORROR IS MANIFEST BEFORE HIS MOTHER! ABSOLUTELY DONE ME CANNISTER IN! STUCK WITH ME FOR DAYS! PROPER HEAD F¥€£!😂

Hope for a new Black mirror season

i love black mirror and i love bioschock, 30 seconds into the video and i'm already sold

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.

this episode was INSANE.

Wow. Your very aware. I’m clapping my hands and feet for you right now. A+ “Sly Cooper”. I used to play that game. That’s such a good name comparison because the actual name of this cast members name in this Episode’s name is “Cooper”.

Out of all the BM episodes, I had to pause for a bit and catch my breath on Playtest. I found out very early that I get waaaaaay too paranoid during my expirements and that psychedelics were not my tea cup, nor will they ever be. This episode felt like I was right there with Cooper on a never-ending trip.

This was the scariest episode yet! This thing is fucking terrifying! This episode just gave me more reasons to not play horror games.

The fact that it all took 0,04 seconds makes it even scarier..

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. 😋

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

21:30 "4" or "Shi" in Japanese represents death "Shi". Of Chinese origin. It's also "Shi" in Shiyawase...or happiness.

please never stop making black mirror videos i love them too much.

@BryceEdwardBrown

Жыл бұрын

Can't stop, won't stop! and thanks for watching them!