Upon further investigation, I realized that it never claimed to be Black Mirror. The episode is actually labeled as “Red Mirror,” something we’ve never seen from the series until Demon 79.

Set in the late 1970s, the only gadget or gizmo on display here – in rather un-Black Mirror fashion – is the TV Nida binge watches every night, which prompts Gaap, the demon, to model himself ...

The final episode this season takes us back in time all the way to the late 1970s, where we're given a "Red Mirror" episode about a woman named Nida (Anjana Vasan) who is visited by a demon Gaap ...

Black Mirror Season 6, Episode 5 Demon 79 is advertised as a Red Mirror production, which is reportedly Charlie Booker's label for content that belongs in the Black Mirror universe but doesn't ...

There's a chilling moment in the final scenes of Black Mirror 's 'Demon 79' where it looks like Paapa Essiedu's charismatic disco-demon Gaap was just the figment of lonely shop assistant Nida's ...

The Red Mirror moniker first appeared in the trailer for the season, which hyped “Demon 79” with a similar intertitle, “Red Mirror Presents.” It sounds like a fake production company, but ...

So far, season 6, episode 5, "Demon 79", is the only Black Mirror episode to be released under the Red Mirror label. Season 7 may seem like a return to fundamentals, especially at first.

If “Demon 79” is a harbinger of future “Red Mirror” content, viewers have much to look forward to.

Black Mirror 'Demon 79' spoilers follow. There's a chilling moment in the final scenes of Black Mirror's 'Demon 79' where it looks like Paapa Essiedu's charismatic disco-demon Gaap was just the ...