Remember Peeple? Last year, the ill-fated “Yelp for people” app was announced, designed to let people rate everyone they know in three areas: dating, professional, and personal life. The Internet quickly scorched the app’s concept, viewing it as an obvious breeding ground for bullying of the highest order. Many also compared it to an episode of Black Mirror—the hit series about the perils of technology—come to life, with some jokingly calling the app a faux creation, nothing more than viral marketing for the show.

Well, the app is still real, but now it seems like there is a Black Mirror episode about it. Speaking to Rolling Stone, show-runner Charlie Brooker shared details about the upcoming third season, including one episode starring Bryce Dallas Howard that seems eerily Peeple-esque. It revolves around a woman living in a world where “every interaction gets a zero-to-five star rating—and your overall rating determines your social status.” Brooker’s had the idea for a few years about a future where “everyone’s reputation is quantified in some way,” but he was having trouble putting it together. Then, he was inspired by a famous app: Uber.

“I realized, ‘Oh, there are ratings for drivers and customers? Hmm, what does this remind me of?’” he says. He later tapped Rashida Jones and Parks and Recreation creator Mike Schur to help flesh out the plot (the show’s not usually a barrel of laughs, but this one sounds promising).

Howard, meanwhile, has had a super strange journey with the series. The actress tells Rolling Stone she used to have terrible nightmares about “dystopian futures” for years, and binge-watching Black Mirror while alone on location in New Zealand only made things worse. She freaked out and reached out to her therapist, saying she felt like she was going into a “nosedive.”

“That was my exact wording,” she recalls. “And then, maybe a year later, [director] Joe Wright sends me an outline of a script, and I see the name of the show written on top, and then the title of the episode: ‘Nosedive.’”

And then she never had the nightmares again (so she says).

One other fascinating tidbit from the Stone interview is that upcoming episode “Shut Up and Dance” is “possibly the bleakest thing we’ve done,” Brooker claims. How is that even possible?

This is a show that has featured bestiality and murder, and consistently forces its viewers to ponder the unbearable darkness of being. Black Mirror’s defining characteristic essentially is bleakness! What evil hath you wrought this time around, Brooker?