Black Mirror: Nosedive

Black Mirror, "Nosedive." Season 3, #1 (21 October 2016). Joe Wright, director. Rashida Jones, Michael Schur, Charlie Brooker, script. As of November 2024, streaming on Netflix and prime video. Running time: 1:03. [1] UK: House of Tomorrow (production) / Netflix (distribution [a USA company]).[2]

From Plot on Wikipedia: "Society has embraced a technology wherein everyone shares their daily activities through eye implants and mobile devices where one rates their interactions with others on a scale from one to five stars, cumulatively affecting everyone's socioeconomic status."[3]

The Wikipedia article notes parallels to real-world China's Social Credit System and the real-world app Peeple (sic). In the development of the episode, one "version took inspiration from 1987 film Planes, Trains and Automobiles,[4] in which the character is on a journey—for 'Nosedive', this was initially a character travelling to an important work presentation."[5]

We will note the (so-far only) SF motif of implants[6] and extreme use of smartphones.[7] Cf. and contrast the optic nerve implants in The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe and works linked there.

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