Black Mirror Analysis - Bête Noire
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Berto, Black Mirror, Episode 2, Season 7, Bet Noir. |
| 0:05.4 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:06.1 | What do you say? |
| 0:06.7 | You bet. |
| 0:07.6 | This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirkcon. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Umberto Cassignette. |
| 0:14.4 | I wake up people who fall in asleep in poppy fields. |
| 0:17.3 | So this episode is called Bet Noir, and I looked up what that means, and it means literally Black Beast, but in common American or English usage, it's a person or thing that one particularly dislikes. |
| 0:33.3 | So it's fitting to call it that in this episode. |
| 0:38.3 | So this star is Sienna Kelly and Rosie McEwen, and it's written by the showrunner Charlie Brooker. |
| 0:44.3 | So I'm going to just go rattle through the plot as I saw it. |
| 0:48.7 | So Maria is a rising executive at a confectionary company. |
| 0:57.9 | And Maria is doing great and everyone likes her. |
| 0:59.4 | She likes her life. |
| 1:02.3 | She likes her partner, her boyfriend. |
| 1:07.0 | And then Verity, this new girl, this new woman is hired. |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah, she seems fine. And she's a former schoolmate of Maria's. |
| 1:11.6 | And Maria is like, oh, Verity, she's like an unstable person. |
| 1:16.2 | No, she liked her from the beginning. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah. |
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