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Black Mirror – Season 3, Episode 3 Shut Up and Dance

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Black Mirror – Season 3, Episode 3

Shut Up and Dance

Aired Oct 21, 2016

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Drama

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When a teenager falls into an online trap, he is forced into an uneasy alliance.

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Terrifically tense and twisty, "Shut Up and Dance" is well-paced and incredibly unsettling, leaving viewers stunned and with a greater distaste for humanity than normally evoked from an average episode Black Mirror.

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Annabel Jones

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Jackie Strause

The Hollywood Reporter

11/20/2018

Lawther's performance stands out and the episode will leave viewers questioning humanity.

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Charles Bramesco

New York Magazine/Vulture

10/04/2018

There's some decent character work in the middle...but the rest is sheer unpleasantness in want of a greater statement.

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Tim Molloy

TheWrap

10/03/2018

No episode of "Black Mirror" will leave you feeling worse about humanity than this one. It's brilliantly plotted and paced, and the ultimate prank is on you. Oh, also? It could happen.

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Donnie Kwak

The Ringer

07/18/2023

“Shut Up and Dance” is one of the more chilling Black Mirror episodes because there is nothing futuristic or fantastical about it...

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Jacob Hall

Slashfilm

12/04/2018

It's not that "Shut Up and Dance" is a bad hour of entertainment - it's that it's a half-measure approach to a concept we've seen done a dozen times before and frequently executed with more menace and wit.

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Aubrey Page

Collider

10/03/2018

"Shut Up and Dance" certainly has its merits, but it's also perhaps the most succinct example of just how wrong Black Mirror can go.

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Synopsis

When a teenager falls into an online trap, he is forced into an uneasy alliance.

Director: James Watkins
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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