13) Striking Vipers
This episode explores themes about friendship, sexuality, and identity through an oddball VR game where two friends experience this connection and become romantic towards each other. When two men discover, through their VR game, the complexity of their feelings for each other, both are forced to deal with the precariousness of the boundary between reality and desire. Striking Vipers is a delicate portrayal of fluidity within relationships, making viewers consider intimacy and connectedness at a time when virtual experiences are as proximal to reality as true ones.
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Edited by Abhimanyu Sharma