Nosedive, Black Mirror

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n the episode “Nosedive,” written by Michael Schur and co-written by Rashida Jones, the audience follows Lacie Pound (Bryce Dallas Howard) in a world where everyone utilizes a social rating system from which they rate one another one to five stars after every social interaction. But here’s the catch: the scores that people accumulate directly affect their socioeconomic status and ultimately dictate their lives.