It was just beautiful to watch. All the pastel colors and then the message and just everything was so beautifully poetic and figuratively dark. Loved it!
shareIt's very poignant and disturbing because it's easy to imagine that happening in real life. We already have some version of it (like with Uber).
I loved it too - ideas like this are why I watch Black Mirror in the first place.
My daughter and I went to the Raleigh airport a few months ago, we were on our way to Chicago. Our waiting lounge was sparse but everyone waiting was starting at their cell phones! It was all so surreal I took a picture of it. I was part of "the problem". Didn't post to social media but it was like a kick in the stomach how much things have changed in the past 10 years.
Even on the flight, everyone was in their own little cyber world.
Just think. . .10-15 years ago, people would be staring at newspapers, pages in a book, or just into empty space instead.
shareNosedive looked nice, but it was the one episode that any bright 15 year old could write by just looking at how much people use their phones and rate stuff.
What I loved most about this one, is how many layers it worked on. It speaks to the prison we put ourselves in when we focus too much on our social media persona. It speaks about censorship. It has ideas about the way we treat those who have and those who don't (just replace the social media score with money or credit score). There's just so much there to unpack. That's what I've enjoyed about most episodes of Black Mirror. I end up watching them slower than any other show because I'm still thinking about an episode several days later.
shareSeemed a little preachy to me at first, but by the end I really liked it
shareIt was great
shareIt was pretty brilliant. It was less about social media as it was about social engineering. Trying to make a statement about people too caught up in social media would be like a Captain Obvious type commentary. The episode was more about political correctness being enforced on people, and what happens when you don't comply - or simply have bad luck. I thought the way everyone dressed in pastel colors indicated you would be given a negative ranking if you wore dark colors. Or earned some positive ranking points by downvoting people who wore dark colors. Then the one person who was dressed normal was the guy in the jail at the end - which confirmed my initial idea.
It wasn't about a lady too caught up in social media and rankings. It was all about the setting, which was based on some app which was engineering society to behave in a certain way.
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