Warning: Spoilers ahead!
Black Mirror viewers are accustomed to Charlie Brooker’s unexpected turns, but the horror aspect added to Mazey Day surprised us.
After a four-year delay, Netflix released the third episode of the sixth season, Joan Is Awful, Loch Henry, Beyond The Sea, and Demon 79.
The episode, which stars Clara Rugaard and Zazie Beetz, follows a “troubled celebrity pursued by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the aftermath of a horrible hit-and-run event.”
While the feature-length film makes observations on celebrity culture and privacy, the unexpected climax offers a surprise as Mazey Day’s tragic secret is revealed – and it has nothing to do with her crimes.
Mazey (Clara) seeks aid from her high-flying pals to enrol into a treatment clinic, where she wants to escape being photographed while simultaneously dealing with her guilt and addiction.
While there, Bo (Zazie), from whose point of view the majority of the episode is told, faces a moral quandary between continuing to invade celebrities’ privacy and ignoring the treatment of stars by invasive paparazzi, after one incident in which a starlet is labelled a ‘whore’ after a leaked sex-tape.
Bo eventually decides to stay in the profession, earning large sums from her coverage and looking for clues as to where Mazey could be.
Following her suggestions to a small-town café, where her tyres are slashed by Mazey’s driver, Bo goes on to investigate the possibility that the troubled celebrity may be booked into an incredibly exclusive rehab nearby.
Before following the smell, Bo summons her pap pal Hector, who accidentally gives away the location to two other invasive photographers who were following them.
As they approach the ultra-secure recovery center’s gates, the four dig their way in under the gates, expecting to find Mazey cold-turkey.
What they discover is considerably worse.
What happens at the end of Mazey Day?
The paparazzi, aware that their acts are very unlawful, search find Mazey’s room, where Bo discovers she has been shackled to the bed.
She runs in, hoping to aid and set her free, only to discover Mazey smeared in swear words, plainly agitated, and, in an odd turn of events, goats wandering the room.
Despite Mazey’s objections, the other photographers continue to blind her with their flashes, hoping to make millions from the plainly vulnerable scenario.
It’s clear however, that Mazey doesn’t actually want help being set free, crying: ‘Get the f**k away, you don’t understand!’
She then orders them to ‘run away,’ as her body transforms into… a werewolf.
Mazey’s body contorts and twists in horrible sequences, flashbacking to the hit-and-run episode, as claws snap out of her knuckles, her spine fractures, and she growls at the cameras.
Bo and Hector exit the treatment institution, hearing the paparazzi screaming as they go, and seek sanctuary in the cafe.
When they realise they’ve freed Mazey, they alert the other diners, including a police officer, but it’s too late.
The werewolf attacks the restaurant, devouring patrons and kills Hector.
Bo shoots her down before the werewolf changes back into Mazey and begs Bo to shoot her again.
She leaves the pistol beside Mazey’s head, unable or unable to complete the crime herself, and, with one final photo, records the persecuted star killing herself while lying in a pool of blood.
Clara told Metro.co.uk that the conclusion was “extremely hard hitting” and “rough.”
She went on to say that filming the werewolf sequence, for which she collaborated with a movement coordinator, was “physically as well as intellectually demanding.”
‘Mazey is a very sad individual, she feels completely alone. In a world full of people that worship her, it’s hard to be in that headspace, I guess.
Black Mirror is available to watch on Netflix.
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