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, and the episode was based on a story by Charlie Brooker. 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

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Lacie Pound (Bryce Dallas Howard) is an above average citizen with a rating of 4.2 and stable job. Lacie lives currently with her brother, Ryan, who has very little interest in ratings. Looking for a new apartment, Lacie finds a luxury apartment, but needs a rating of 4.5 or above to qualify for the discounts she needs to afford such a place. Lacie sets out to attempt to raise her rating, but her continuous attempts to be warm and extroverted during social interactions are making very little progress towards her goal. Seeing that she is making little progress, Lacie seeks help from a rating specialist who suggests that she surrounds herself with people who have higher ratings, as making a positive impact on people with higher ratings will go a very long way.