Black Mirror is gas spectators with alternative versions of their episode

Leave it to Black mirror Not only to break the fourth wall, but to delete it completely. Season 7 of the success series Netflix brought many twists and turns, but the second episode, “Bête Noire”, took a further step forward.

Not happy to joke with the meaning of the reality of his characters, it seems that the show is playing the same mental games with the public.

The story focuses on Maria, a food researcher whose life is addressed when her former excessive classmate Verity joins her team. Verity begins to make bizarre and safe statements, as there are no more allergies of walnuts and somehow become true.

He later revealed that he is using a device that allows her to jump into alternatives in which whatever she says is true. It turns out that the jump of reality is not happening only in the episode. It is happening to the episode.

The spectators began to notice a strange inconsistency in a scene in which Mary and Verity discuss the name of a fast food chain. Maria insists on the fact that they are “Barnies”, her boyfriend worked there and even has a hat from the place to prove it.

But when Google, the name suddenly presents itself as “Bernies”, as if the Verity technology had just rewritten reality. Then some fans realized that they were not all looking at the same version of the scene.

“So my friend and I were looking at the new Black mirror The “Bête Noire” episode and we noticed that there was a clear difference between our episodes, “said a fan on X.” Spectators are also becoming illuminated by the gas. “

Black mirror In reality he is releasing two different versions of the episode on Netflix, with the fast food chain initially that appears as “Barnie” or “Bernies”, depending on who is looking.

This type of Meta-Messing is very in line with Black Mirror’s Twisted Sense of fun. It looks like a smooth nod to Mandela effectthat disturbing phenomenon in which huge groups of people remember things differently, such as the spelling of Berestain’s bears.

People remember a reality, but tests show another. In “Bête Noire” it is an expedient that has jumped directly from the screen.

It is not the first time that the show plays with the format (see: Bandersnatch), but this last mental game is much more subtle. He doesn’t ask you to choose a path, let you ask you if you saw what you think you’ve seen.

And that’s what he does Black mirror A watch so deliciously cruel. Not only does he explore the horrors of technology, use technology to challenge the border between fiction and reality.