“Black Mirror” Season 7’s Bête Noire Is Messing With Fans’ Heads Like Never Before

This article contains spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Bête Noire.”

Since it premiered on Channel 4 more than a decade ago, Black Mirror has become known as a TV show that really gets under viewers’ skin.

But with its new season, the dystopian drama is messing with viewers’ heads in a way like never before.

The second episode of the Netflix show’s seventh season is titled “Bête Noire”, and centres around a woman who feels she is being gaslit by a new colleague, who it later emerges is someone she bullied at school.

Slowly, the central character’s life begins to unravel as her new colleague continues to make her second-guess herself – by editing CCTV footage of them together, making tweaks to their email exchanges and even changing the name of a chicken shop she was once a patron of.

But as more fans have been sharing their feelings about the show on social media, it’s become apparent that Black Mirror is using this episode to have some fun at viewers’ expense too.