'Black Mirror' has taken a part of London into the 1980s

Truly transformative.
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As if 2018 wasn't enough like a Black Mirror episode already.

People living in Croyden, a suburb of London, received letters informing them that Black Mirror was going to be filming in their area.

The set dressing appears to have taken Croydon back to the 1980s, complete with Wimpy Burger and an old-timey WHSmiths.

There also appears to be a title for the episode, "Bandersnatch."

"Bandersnatch" is a reference to a creature which appears in the Lewis Caroll poem "The Hunting of the Snark." Just how this beast will appear in dystopian-tech form remains to be seen.

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