Question reality
This is another regular theme across Black Mirror’s run. Season two’s “White Bear” gave us a murderer given nightly memory wipes so she can re-live the same terrifying day, never realizing everything is staged as part of her punishment. In “White Christmas,” the special that ran after season two, we meet another murderer unknowingly placed in an artificial environment as a means to pry a confession out of him. Season four’s “Hang the DJ” layers the concept over a sweet story about matchmaking apps. And in yet another example, season three’s “Man Against Fire” gave us a soldier (Malachi Kirby) who thinks he’s battling mutant monsters dubbed “roaches”—until the military-issued implant that’s controlling his perception is damaged, and he realizes he’s been part of a campaign of ethnic genocide.
