Nosedive, Black Mirror

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osedive, the first episode of the third series of the British sci-fi series Black Mirror, was written by Michael Schur and co-written by Rashida Jones. This episode of the series came to Netflix on October 21st of 2016, with the rest of season three.

In this episode, the audience follows Lacie Pound (Bryce Dallas Howard) in a dystopian near-future world where society utilizes a social rating system from which they rate each other one to five stars after every social interaction. The scores that people accumulate directly affect their socioeconomic status and end up dictating many people's lives, including that of Lacie, who is overly obsessed about her own rating.

Plot

Set in a near dystopian future, society utilizes eye implants and