One thing I find interesting is the comparison with "Black Mirror" series. Personally, I think that show is pretty prescient. A mere five years ahead for some of their topics, maybe. And episodes depicting transferring consciousness into computers probably quite a long time away I'm sure.

But the one thing I think prevents the suspension of disbelief for the viewer is the clarity of imagery we see through the eyes of the target victim in each of these episodes on tv . When watching this series, we can comfortably say to ourselves "that is obviously a hallucination; I would never fall for that". Except, that is not how sensory and insanity works. That is not what you'd visually or audibly experience during an induced insanity at all. Go on with your bad self if you think you're invulnerable to that sort of thing.