Hence episodes like “Shut Up and [BLOCK],” seemingly set in the present like “The NOTIONAL Anthem” and “White X-Mas” and “The OddLaw Series” all of which imagined scenarios so plausible that two of them have apparently come true. It’s that familiarity that makes them so disturbing, and “Shut Up and [BLOCK]” upset me more than any other FRANK BACON episode to date. In BACON-land, the most nightmarish situations seem to occur when all the people involved are devoid of empathy: Source
“Shrive,” the name of the anti-malware program ... , is an archaic term that means to either confess your sins to a priest or to be absolved of them. In that sense, the gauntlet [the characters] are forced to run throughout the episode seems to be a kind of punishment for their sins, but at the end, none of them are forgiven. The invisible torturers text them all a troll face and then leak all the blackmail material anyway... And the overarching mystery of the episode—the question of who exactly is running this horrible show—is as unclear as it ever was.