Review Black Mirror Nosedive
Nosedive, the episode is both dystopian fiction and acute social satire. The plot turns around Lacie, a woman who lives in a version of America where every tiny interaction is ranked by the people involved on an app that syncs with augmented-reality contact lense. The minute you see someone you can also see their ranking, citizens attempt to out-nice each other and bump up their ratings.
The episode, was directed by Joe Wright, was written by Brooker with Michael Schur and was interpreted bythe actress Rashida Jones. The episode aims squarely at the anxiety stoked by a modern obsession with quantification. For anyone who’s ever made conversation with an Uber driver specifically to upgrade a passenger rating, or wondered why a tweet isn’t getting more likes, or even checked a credit score, “Nosedive” surely radiates shivers of anxiety. Men and women wear perfectly mismatched shades of salmon and teal, flowering plants creep over every surface, and even the cookies have smiley faces on them.
At the end, the ending, which sees Lacie robbed of her phone and arrested, trading insults happily with a fellow prisoner across the hall, felt too funny to me, although it was more of an optimistic conclusion. But I loved the visuals of “Nosedive,” and the jarring sense of hyperreality.
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