Black Mirror: Season 5: Smithereens: Ending Explained Breakdown & Spoiler Review
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Black Mirror: Season 5: Smithereens: Ending Explained Breakdown & Spoiler Review by Deffinition
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Smithereens: Story Recap
Smithereens is the only British Episode of the season and from the off it’s pretty nihilistic.
We join Andrew Scott who plays a man named Chris a taxi driver that finds himself, orchestrating an attempt to take down social media once and for all. Chris has kidnapped an intern of a social company named Smithereen and he is threatening to kill the man if he isn’t connected to the company’s CEO, Billy Bower.
Throughout the 70 minute ride, we learn of Chris’ past and what drove him to do the things that he did and it’s clear that this episode is a comment on how in being connected to everyone digitally we have become disconnected physically.
The lost art of conversation is present throughout and Chris just wants to return to a simpler time when things weren’t all about likes, comments and shares.
No matter what kind of relationship Chris tries to build he’s blocked by a screen. Whether it’s a grieving mother or simply a woman that he is picking up from a meeting at Smithereen, everyone seems transfixed by a screen, desperately searching for a connection that they could have with Chris if they simply paid attention to him.
Black Mirror: Smithereen: Ending Explained
Well whilst this could have been a somewhat happy ending with Chris dying, this is Black Mirror and the nonchalant attitude of the public towards the barely reported on Jaden makes me believe that it was him that ended up in the firing line.
Had it been Chris, people would no doubt have pulled out their phones and began spraying their thoughts all over social media, however, as they don’t it’s likely Jaden that died and this is also enforced by the fact that Billy returns to meditating.
The character had no connection with Jaden, only Chris and thus the characters death is just a statistic to him.
Overall this is probably my favourite episode of Season 5 with it both blaming individuals for continuing their addictions as well as the corporations that prey upon this.

Chris acknowledges he caused the car accident but also blames the corporation for causing his addiction and this metaphorically can be aligned with Alcohol, Drugs and more as things that we know are dangerous but are thrust upon as as something that we need in our lives to enjoy ourselves.

In the end the outcome of the situation doesn’t really matter, just in the same way that it doesn’t really matter to the public. Our lives, similar to Chris and Jaden’s have become reduced to notifications that we see to get a hit of Dopamine and turn off until we get the next one.
That is the true meaning of the episode and ultimately Billy closing his eyes once more in the final shot represents our blindness to just how disposable that we have become because of it. He and his company are shutting themselves off to the damage that they are doing and are continuing to prey on the populace.
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Smithereens: Story Recap
Smithereens is the only British Episode of the season and from the off it’s pretty nihilistic.
We join Andrew Scott who plays a man named Chris a taxi driver that finds himself, orchestrating an attempt to take down social media once and for all. Chris has kidnapped an intern of a social company named Smithereen and he is threatening to kill the man if he isn’t connected to the company’s CEO, Billy Bower.
Throughout the 70 minute ride, we learn of Chris’ past and what drove him to do the things that he did and it’s clear that this episode is a comment on how in being connected to everyone digitally we have become disconnected physically.
The lost art of conversation is present throughout and Chris just wants to return to a simpler time when things weren’t all about likes, comments and shares.
No matter what kind of relationship Chris tries to build he’s blocked by a screen. Whether it’s a grieving mother or simply a woman that he is picking up from a meeting at Smithereen, everyone seems transfixed by a screen, desperately searching for a connection that they could have with Chris if they simply paid attention to him.
Black Mirror: Smithereen: Ending Explained
Well whilst this could have been a somewhat happy ending with Chris dying, this is Black Mirror and the nonchalant attitude of the public towards the barely reported on Jaden makes me believe that it was him that ended up in the firing line.
Had it been Chris, people would no doubt have pulled out their phones and began spraying their thoughts all over social media, however, as they don’t it’s likely Jaden that died and this is also enforced by the fact that Billy returns to meditating.
The character had no connection with Jaden, only Chris and thus the characters death is just a statistic to him.
Overall this is probably my favourite episode of Season 5 with it both blaming individuals for continuing their addictions as well as the corporations that prey upon this.

Chris acknowledges he caused the car accident but also blames the corporation for causing his addiction and this metaphorically can be aligned with Alcohol, Drugs and more as things that we know are dangerous but are thrust upon as as something that we need in our lives to enjoy ourselves.

In the end the outcome of the situation doesn’t really matter, just in the same way that it doesn’t really matter to the public. Our lives, similar to Chris and Jaden’s have become reduced to notifications that we see to get a hit of Dopamine and turn off until we get the next one.
That is the true meaning of the episode and ultimately Billy closing his eyes once more in the final shot represents our blindness to just how disposable that we have become because of it. He and his company are shutting themselves off to the damage that they are doing and are continuing to prey on the populace.
MUSIC CREDIT - BEATOWSKI
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✘ SC ⇒ SoundCloud: beatowski
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