Nosedive

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Nosedive is a Black Mirror episode that satirically explores a near-future society obsessed with social media ratings and the consequences of living for online approval.

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instanceOf television episode
castMember Alice Eve NERFINISHED
Bryce Dallas Howard NERFINISHED
Cherry Jones NERFINISHED
James Norton NERFINISHED
Mackenzie Crook NERFINISHED
Sope Dirisu NERFINISHED
centralTheme conformity
online approval
reputation economy
social media ratings
social status
surveillance capitalism
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
createdBy Charlie Brooker NERFINISHED
criticalReception generally positive reviews
director Joe Wright NERFINISHED
endTheme loss of pretense and liberation from ratings
episodeNumberInSeason 1
episodeRuntime approximately 63 minutes
genre dystopian fiction
satire
science fiction
hasColorPalette pastel aesthetic
inUniverseConsequence social and economic opportunities tied to personal rating
inUniverseTechnology ubiquitous rating app
mainCharacter Lacie Pound NERFINISHED
notableFor critique of social media obsession
depiction of rating-based society
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork Netflix NERFINISHED
partOfSeries Black Mirror NERFINISHED
platform Netflix
plotSummary In a society where people rate each other from one to five stars for every interaction, a woman obsessed with improving her rating suffers a series of mishaps that cause her score to plummet.
portrayedBy Bryce Dallas Howard NERFINISHED
productionCompany House of Tomorrow NERFINISHED
releaseDate 2016-10-21
satirizes class stratification based on ratings
performative behavior
rating systems
social media culture
seasonNumber 3
setting near-future society
writer Charlie Brooker NERFINISHED
Michael Schur NERFINISHED
Rashida Jones NERFINISHED

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Susan appearsInEpisode Nosedive