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Sometimes all an episode of Black Mirror needs is a great lead performance to anchor the ridiculousness surrounding it. “Bête Noire” isn’t a much better episode than “Common People,” and it goes off the rails in more over-the-top fashion. But it does benefit from Siena Kelly’s flawed yet stubbornly likable protagonist, Maria.
Maria is an ambitious young woman working in research and development at Ditta, a confectionary company. One Monday, while focus grouping her new miso jam twist on their…
