However, these guys shouldn’t feel too smug about their powers of deduction – particularly as Brooker himself revealed that this was what the title referred to way back in 2014.

Speaking to Channel 4, the showrunner said: “What I took it to mean was when a screen is off – when a screen is off it looks like a black mirror.

“Because any TV, any LCD, any iPhone, any iPad – something like that – if you just stare at it, it looks like a black mirror, and there’s something cold and horrifying about that, and it was such a fitting title for the show.”

Brooker added: “I mean, I don’t know what else we would’ve called it – Spooky Technology Time?! It would’ve been rubbish.

“I quite like the fact that people are watching it on their TV or on their laptop, or their smartphone or whatever, and then as the end credits start running and the screen cuts to black, they see themselves reflected.”

Yet another reason to go home, log into Netflix and binge-watch every single Black Mirror episode tonight, eh?

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Black Mirror fans just learned why the show is *really* called Black Mirror

Black Mirror fans just learned why the show is really called Black Mirror