Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Black Mirror Season 6.Season 6 of Charlie Brooker’s critically-acclaimed Netflix anthology show Black Mirror has finally landed on the streaming platform.
Sinister streaming, alternate history epics, and twisted true crime dominated the batch of new episodes, not to mention easter eggs and references to previous seasons.
The biggest surprise was the feature-length finale “Demon 79,” and Brooker’s innovative genre-switch marks a departure away from the show’s focus on tech-driven terror.
“Demon 79” seems extrapolated from an entirely different creative pool with its horror-leanings, subverted Faustian Bargaining, British history, and grisly comedic pairing of Killing Eve’s Anjana Vasan and I May Destroy You’s Paapa Essiedu.
It is a fun episode and hopefully indicative of more of the horror to come — which begs the question: Why is “Demon 79” presented by Red Mirror?…
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