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Can some please explain the ending of "Hang the DJ"


Or possibly the whole episode?
They weren't real, correct? But the last scene at the club was really them? If so, what did we see during the whole show. How do you explain all the relationships.

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I second that. Because of this ambiguous ending I didn't like this episode that much. It's a really good question.

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The ending killed it for me, too.

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Really? The ending made the episode for me! That was when everything about that seemingly weird episode fell into place. It was very touching.

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Ok, I'm going to attempt to explain this as I understood it.

The two people (the ones we see at the very end in the club) are matched together using one of those dating apps. They are real.

Anything before the very end was a computer program running different variations of their potential relationship in order to make a good match. In 998 out of a 1000 run-throughs of their relationship the "app people" chose to run away and brake from the System, meaning they'd be pretty much perfect for eachother.

It was all so that the comuter can calculate if Amy and Frank would be a good match in real life basically. Them at the club was the first time they'd actually meet, after the app has matched them together based on those 1000 simulations.

I know I used match a whole lot, but I hope this clears things up at least a little :)

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Thanks for that explanation, it sounds totally plausible to me. You understood the ending much better than I did.

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Yeah, I'll go with your answer. I've got nothing better. Thanks for the plausible response.

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This is all correct. You can rewatch the end and catch everything. The important part is that in th simulations they fought the system and rebelled TO STAY TOGETHER against the odds, proving they had a great shot at a relation ship.

Keep in mind those simulations could have all happened in one minute or a second depending on the computer power. And the coach probably worked nothing like the simulated ones.

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Yes, I have a better understanding now. Thanks :)

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