Spoiler alert for Black Mirror season 7
Black Mirror launched two completely different variations of the second episode of its newest season—and the rationale will blow your thoughts. The episode, titled Bête Noire, explores gaslighting and the human notion of actuality and fact. Netflix discovered a meta option to convey this theme to viewers!
The episode follows Maria (Siena Kelly), a meals researcher who turns into satisfied that her actuality is being altered by somebody she knew from college. Verity is the girl who reenters Maria’s life, allegedly to govern her sense of actuality.
For example, Maria will get into an argument with a colleague over the identify of a fried hen franchise the place her boyfriend labored. She’s sure it’s known as Bernies, as she owns a baseball cap from the franchise.
Nevertheless, others insist the model known as Barnies, making Maria query herself. Not solely is she confirmed mistaken, however even the identify on the baseball cap adjustments to Barnies. Later, it’s revealed that Verity designed a expertise that permits her to move herself and Maria to alternate universes the place actuality is barely altered.
A parallel universe—or an the wrong way up, if you’ll. Netflix took this theme actually and launched two variations of the episode. Whereas some viewers noticed Bernies as the unique spelling, others noticed Barnies.
The distinction was seen after a consumer tweeted on X that he and his pals had downloaded two completely different variations of the episode. “We seen that there was a stark distinction between our episodes… even the viewers are getting gaslit at 16:40!” the consumer wrote.
Black Mirror is a Netflix collection that includes “stand-alone dramas — sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that discover techno-paranoia,” in line with its synopsis. The present’s distinctive idea has garnered a cult following.
Black Mirror season 7 is now streaming on Netflix.