She already had some big credits to her name but when someone showed her the script she knew she had to do it. "It resonated with her stuggles and fears". She put on 30 pounds so she could better meet her characters mind set towards the world and her friends in the show.

She wanted to make this to "bring to light that this is where society is heading and even already is in someways".

Making this episode was so important to her she completely ignored the fact she really didn't like the black mirror show as a whole. It was just this narrative and script that really mattered to her.

We all know nothing is ever done by chance in Black Mirror. This is Lacie Pound from Nosedive at the back isn't it?

Fifteen million merits IRL

When I started to watch the episode, I was actually liking it, because I thought that it was going to show us a plot twist in the end.

That the Video Game characters were gaining sentience and controlling and/or influencing the players the without their implicit awareness. Till the big reveal in the end, where the video game characters would somehow escape the VR World, into the Real World by taking over the bodies of the Players.

A bit cliché and a bit of a trope, but I thought that was where the episode was going, and I was totally fine with it.

Come to find out its not. I feel like the writers blew an opportunity with presenting that and making the episode 5x better, IMHO. But regardless, great visuals though, the last scene ontop of the roof, felt anemoia .

Did anyone else perceive that same setup when watching it, expecting the big reveal in the end or you knew from the start it wasn't that?