BLACK MIRROR Season 6: Joan Is Awful Ending Explained | Breakdown, Review & Easter Eggs

BLACK MIRROR Season 6: Joan Is Awful Ending Explained | Breakdown, Review & Easter Eggs. We review, recap and explain the new Netflix Black Mirror Season Episode 1 and talk about the hidden details, references and the true meaning of the ending.

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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and I'm so excited to talk about what happens in Season 6. The show has returned and for the next week we're gonna be going through every single episode to bring you full ending explained breakdowns. First up is Joan Is Awful which centres around a woman discovering that her entire life has been turned into a quote unquote netflix drama starring none other than Salma Hayek.

This showcases all of her faults, fantasies and it unearths every dirty little secret that she has. They also do a big twist come the end which I'll talk about as we get further into it.

Extremely fourth wall breaking it actually has a number of different Black Mirror and Netflix Easter eggs in it. For the first part of the video I wanna go through what they are and then from here we'll go into most of the plot and it's meaning.

Now the opening when the title itself is revealed in the same font as netflix and we learn that in this universe it's called Streamberry. We see the service being accessed at several points and there's lots of different titles on it.

You can catch Loch Henry: Truth Will Out: which a documentary on episode 2 from this season. There's also Sea of Tranquility: which was the show first brought up in “Nosedive” and later in this season during “Mazey Day.”

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[shaqr]

It hit hard at the scene when the lady was explaining how “Joan is Awful” would get better engagement than “Joan is Awesome” because of how drawn in people are to the negative aspects of people’s lives😶

[ML-myqq]

I love Michael Cera’s line “this is not called Selma Hayek gets everything explained to her but doesn’t understand it still” lol

[cmasterson]

They took the "I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude" to the max lmao 🤣

[anniesharp]

It seems that Joan is played as more and more awful as you get deeper into each fictive layer. This suggests real Joan is probably not awful at all. As the Michael Cera character implies, real Joan doesn't live in a fancy house, and we can assume, probably didn't have as good a job as the Annie Murphy Joan. We can assume that real Joan was much kinder to Sandy and less powerful in the firing scene...
It makes the whole thing much more disturbing because as Mona says, there's nothing special about her; they could've warped the life of anyone on their streaming service. Maybe real Joan didn't cheat on Krish at all, or even reply to Mac's messages. Stark warnings, indeed.

[ahmedmoyeed]

Meta as meta gets. Loved the episode. The quote that gets me is Salma Hayeks about 100 years of film history being converted to an app. It feels so watered down now

[spookyspice]

I actually didn’t see Joan as a bad person. I saw her as an incredibly flawed person with very little control in her life, which did lead her to make bad decisions. Joan Is Awful just focused on her worst traits and embellished the mistakes and bad choices that she made in order to make her appear worse than she actually was. Instead of a complex human being, she was portrayed as a black and white caricature of herself, which isn’t too different to how people in social media are viewed when they themselves make bad decisions. Because the public doesn’t care about the complexities of human nature and what leads people to make the choices that they do, they just like the drama.

[sahirbansal]

I also think Joan keeps getting more and more awful as they go down deeper into the fictus levels. Like it becomes more and more of an adaption

[codewithglen]

This episode is a perfect example of social media, but written as a juxtaposition. We all exagerate our lives into these online characters. We feel awful if something we post isn’t up to our standard or if someone isn’t responding to how we’d expect it. We look at ourselves from the online presence first and then reality. We watch our IG stories over and over... We travel to places just so we can show it in our "online character". We are all characters in our online profiles

[itsdannyhoney]

My favorite part of the whole episode was me waiting for the character of Kate Blanchett to appear and I expected we would get deeper and deeper into the multiverse (think Inception's dream within a dream) but then suddenly we are taken one step back and shown that the whole picture we have been shown was already a movie adaptation. That is the classic Black Mirror twist I look forward to in every episode.

[watdaforkman]

As someone who went into this as blind as possible, I just have to say that Salma Hayek and Annie Murphy were a duo I didn't know I needed. They were genuinely unexpected but they were comedy gold together, seriously some of the industry's finest comedians. Salma really came through with the laughs in this episode and Annie, while also being incredibly funny, she really stood out to me and showed the world how talented of an actress she really is. I hope this opens the door to more future opportunities for her.

[OneRedKraken]

This episode was absolutely amazing. It starts small with work and personal conflicts, and builds up to questioning reality itself. It did all that in 60 minutes. I was absolutely blown away. Usually episodes seem to center around a specific social issue. But this one touched on more than one and still pulled it off.

[johnathan]

I liked how Annie also had an ankle bracelet at the end as well as she was also charged with the crime of destroying the Quan-puta!

[sheidaji]

One of my fears is to caught in situations like this because we never actually read terms and conditions!!!

[bt]

What’s interesting it’s this was Netflix’s blatant self awareness about how awful they could be and how awful we would be for still watching and streaming it. It’s so introspective to the point of being blinded so you still miss the point.

[ranielladurand]

Just finished this episode I can’t believe they’ve done it again! Mind blowing and scary how it’s so close to reality . Can’t wait to watch the rest!

[jazzmart]

It would have made a lot more sense to destroy the phone immediately after learning that they listen in through the microphone...

[OnionInfinite]

I think the data harvesting aspect being ignored by the characters is the real point of this episode. It's not really a commentary about Streaming or AI or Simulation, it's about the fact that most of us care about our image first and foremost. They don't care that a corporation has a continuous stream of data about them (enough to create a simulated version!), they care about the presented version of themselves that others can see. The near real-time show on a steaming platform works as a good substitute for social media

[edoardoruini]

This felt like a return to form. Doesn't touch the heights of the first seasons but it feels like Charlie Booker finally has something to say again.
Looking forward to see the other episodes.
By the way best Michael Cera cameo since This Is The End

[losingaces]

this episode restored my faith in mainstream media. it gave the viewer power to fight against the self deprecating and debilitating affect of mass media made for engagement — rather than for purpose or a goal of having a good message. watching joan at the end come to terms with herself and actually achieve her goal of owning a coffee shop maded me smile so much, i literally got up to paint after spending months in an art block.

[frankenviews]

Kind of went back to that Black Mirror idea of computer simulations and artificial intelligence portrayed as human beings, like in "Hang The DJ". Definitely back to the high quality of season 1 and 2. Could be a commentary on celebrity, and how everyone knows the intimate details of one's personal life. And with social media, it's all being reported in real time. And, of course, the quantum computer is Chat GPT taken to it's ridiculous extreme logical conclusion.