![]() ![]() He tells Nida that a passerby, Tim Simons (Joe Evans), molests his eight-year-old daughter. Nida refuses to accept this, even when Gaap shows her apartment in flames, but Gaap pursues her to a canal. Nida has three days to make three human sacrifices failure will lead to world destruction on May Day. Gaap takes the form of Bobby Farrell from Boney M. In her flat, the talisman speaks to Nida and she releases the demon Gaap ( Paapa Essiedu), on his first assignment. There she discovers a wooden talisman, pricking her finger and dripping blood over it. Vicky complains about the smell of Nida's lunch, so she eats biryani in the basement. Vandals paint the fascist National Front logo on her door. Nida hears the right-wing Conservative politician Michael Smart speaking against immigration. The customer Keith Holligan ( Nicholas Burns), who murdered his wife, makes sexual comments towards Nida as she imagines attacking him. While selling shoes, she fantasises about hurting her xenophobic coworker, Vicky ( Katherine Rose Morley). In 1979, Nida Huq ( Anjana Vasan) works at the department store Possetts in the English town Tipley. However, it was ranked poorly on critics' lists of Black Mirror instalments by quality. Reviews were positive, with Essiedu and Vasan's acting widely praised, alongside the episode's comedy. It is unclear whether Nida is imagining the episode's events until the happy ending, where she leaves Earth with Gaap as nuclear warfare breaks out. The episode draws from horror fiction, fashion and settings of the 1970s. The demon Gaap, initially designed as a punk, has a look influenced by Bobby Farrell of Boney M., whose music is used in the soundtrack. It was filmed in June 2022 in Harrow, London. Set in 1979, it shows anti-immigration politics of the Conservative Party and National Front. It was the first episode written in the sixth series, with which Brooker aimed to rethink the programme's scope. The episode is the first to be released under the label Red Mirror, the result of Brooker experimenting with supernatural horror and past settings. ![]() She releases a demon, Gaap ( Paapa Essiedu), who tells her she must commit three murders to prevent the end of the world. ![]() It stars Nida ( Anjana Vasan), a mild-mannered sales assistant. Alongside the rest of the sixth series, it premiered on Netflix on 15 June 2023. It was written by series creator Charlie Brooker and Bisha K. " Demon 79" is the fifth and final episode of the sixth series of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. ![]()
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