Charlie Brooker questions the root of evil in an EW interview about what the thrilling episode really means.
Then, she mistakenly gives Verity an incorrect list of ingredients for a recipe.
She also misses an important workplace meeting that wasn’t on her calendar.
Siena Kelly as Maria and Rosy McEwen as Verity in ‘Black Mirror’ season 7 episode ‘Bête Noire.'.Credit:Netflix
At the center of it all is Verity, who plays things off innocently enough.
Maria can’t be blamed, she insists, as she’s dangerously allergic to nuts.
But, security footage shows Maria downing the liquid, and she attacks Verity.
Ben Ashenden and Siena Kelly in ‘Black Mirror’ season 7 episode ‘Bête Noire’.Parisa Tag/Netflix
But, as Brooker feels it’s important to ask, “How evil would you say Maria is?
She did something thoughtless more than malicious.”
“She doesnt really know.
Verity says shes done everything and been everything, and all that stuff is still there.
Shes a tormented villain.
Maria is guilty of doing something thoughtless.”
He also connects it to real-world anxieties over societal and political powers making true reality harder to distinguish.
Black Mirrorseason 7 is now streaming on Netflix.
Rosy McEwen in ‘Black Mirror’ season 7 episode ‘Bête Noire’.Netflix
Rosy McEwen and Siena Kelly in ‘Black Mirror’ season 7 episode ‘Bête Noire’.Netflix
