Black Mirror
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Sometimes all an episode ofBlack Mirrorneeds is a great lead performance to anchor the ridiculousness surrounding it.
But it does benefit from Siena Kellys flawed yet stubbornly likable protagonist, Maria.
Maria is an ambitious young woman working in research and development at Ditta, a confectionary company.
Wednesday is when the episodes main idea starts coming into focus.
Apparently Nat took her own life a few days ago after weeks of extreme paranoia and instability.
Even the security camera shows Maria doing it, and eventually she gets fired.
The pendant has finger ID, unfortunately, as Verity explains after discovering Marias hiding place under the bed.
She demonstrates by changing Marias shirt color and spoken language on the spot.
All she wants now is for Maria to suffer like Nat did.
Luckily, Maria is scrappy.
I just hope Brooker finds something interesting to say soon.
Final Reflections
She can conduit?
Conduits not a verb.
Probably my favorite Mandela-effect instance is the sudden inability of anyone to understand what the phrase nut allergy means.
In a funny touch, Marias Google search only turns up not allegory as the closest suggestion.
