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Black Mirror – Season 3, Episode 1 Nosedive

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Black Mirror – Season 3, Episode 1

Nosedive

Aired Oct 21, 2016

Sci-Fi

Drama

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An insecure office worker living in a smiley, status-obsessed, nightmare finds a way to join an old friend as one of society's elites.

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Behind her pink and perky façade, Lacie becomes obsessed with social media status in "Nosedive," an episode that demonstrates the dangers of society's need for approval but does so with a perfect dose of humor.

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Cherry Jones

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Jacob Stolworthy

Independent (UK)

01/09/2019

4/5

This outing is a unique treat -- and one that's a joy to unpack on a visual level.

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Tim Molloy

TheWrap

10/03/2018

A perfect sendup of our obsession with social media approval.

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Alan Sepinwall

Uproxx

08/18/2018

The set-up just keeps repeating the same points over and over, when the real dramatic and comedic meat is in seeing her life fall apart as her plummeting score becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Zach Kram

The Ringer

07/18/2023

This was a “what if phones, but too much?!” episode—plus, Community already did more in 21 minutes than this episode did in over an hour.

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Gina Carbone

CinemaBlend

06/10/2019

"Nosedive" shows that you don't need dramatic twists to have a great episode of Black Mirror.

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Jacob Hall

Slashfilm

12/04/2018

Quite possibly the most stylized episode of the entire series thus far, "Nosedive" benefits from its stellar production values and director Joe Wright's eye painting on a larger canvas.

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Synopsis

An insecure office worker living in a smiley, status-obsessed, nightmare finds a way to join an old friend as one of society's elites.

Director: Joe Wright
Creator: Charlie Brooker
Executive Producer: Annabel Jones, Charlie Brooker
Screenwriter: Charlie Brooker
Network: Netflix
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date: Oct 21, 2016

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