She practices her laugh in the mirror for example, and takes a bite from her cookie for a picture, but then spits it out. She builds a fake, perfect-looking, wall around her own identity. When she is invited to her 4.8-rated ‘best friend’s’ wedding, she sees the perfect opportunity to get that rating.
Protagonist Lacy Pound (Bryce Dallas Howard) has a respectable score of 4.2 in the beginning of the episode, but to get a discount on the price of an apartment she desperately wants, she needs a 4.5. A high rating enables you to rent a nice apartment, book a flight or get invited to certain events. You get rated by others on a five-star scale and your score determines your value in society. Everyone walks around with a score glowing in front of them. Society is based on ratings and validation. Nosedive tells a story set in a pastel-coloured future, where social media have taken over everyone’s lives. Social media control a big part of our everyday lives. We post pictures on Facebook or Instagram and keep refreshing the page until we see the approval we are looking for. We wait until the likes and hearts are flowing in. In the first episode of the third season of Black Mirror, this search for validation controls society completely.īlack Mirror is a dark and satirical series, often set in a dystopian future in which humanity is dominated by the bad ‘side effects’ of digital media.
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