9 Most Emotional TV Moments Of 2016

5. Yorkie And Kelly Reunite - Black Mirror

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Season 3 of Black Mirror saw the show firing on all of its cylinders, a dark and twisted look five-minutes into the future.

The show painted a truly horrifying vision of the near-future, humanity intersecting with technological advances to catastrophic results. And yet, its best episode was one that veered away from that.

Yorkie and Kelly meet in the titular town of San Junipero, and soon begin a tryst that takes them through time. We watch as they fall in love, waiting for the rug-pull.

Sure enough, they're two elderly people not long for this world, and San Junipero is a place you can live forever, uploading your consciousness to a machine. And while Yorkie plans on a permanent stay, Kelly does not.

It's all set up for a heart-wrenching end, with Yorkie left all alone, wondering if she's made a huge mistake in eternal life. But then, in its last moments, San Junipero pulls Black Mirror's most surprising twist yet: it gives us a happy ending. The pair drive off into the sunset, and give us a beautiful conclusion to one of the year's best episodes of television.

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