With a finale that perfectly strikes the perfect tonal balance and shifts from the sci-fi genre, Black Mirror instills hope for future seasons.
“Demon 79” is perhaps the only episode this season to really strike the perfect tonal balance: funny, but not at the expense of story, and dramatic without taking itself too seriously. It’s ironic because this is perhaps the least,” which at least used paparazzi cameras as its technological focus, this one barely involves tech or the media at all. Like the previous episode, it’s more fantasy than science fiction — but unlike that one, the shift in genre somehow doesn’t feel out of place.
After Mr. Duncan asks Nida to eat her lunch in the basement, she discovers a small stone talisman, taking it home without realizing its significance. Soon after, though, the talisman starts speaking to her; apparently, when she cut herself, she anointed it with her blood, summoning a demon named Gaap of Misophaes. At first, Gaap appears as a terrifying horned creature, but then he switches to a more appealing human form, inspired by Nida’s fixation on Boney M. singer Bobby Farrell .
Kill two happens the next day when Nida and Gaap visit the local pub to scope out some candidates. She doesn’t typically drink, but she’ll need a couple of triple scotches to pull this one off. Luckily, she catches the eye of the perfect victim: Keith Holligan, who she already fantasizes about killing anyway. And while she’s still too shy to run straight at him with a hammer, she eventually manages to get the job done back at his place.
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