Black Mirror - Every Episode Ranked From Worst To Best
9. Nosedive
This Joe Wright-directed (Atonement, Hanna) episode cannily casts Bryce Dallas Howard as a woman living in a world where every interaction, no matter how minor, can be rated by others, impacting a person's overall social ranking number, which can in turn affect the socio-economic opportunities made available to them.
It gets zero points for subtlety, but Nosedive is nevertheless a highly entertaining social media satire, noting how so many use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on to project an inaccurate image of themselves, the validation of which directly accounts for their self-worth.
Sure, the episode presents a heightened reflection of reality, but it's easy to see some version of this coming to fruition years from now: don't be surprised if a retrospective article deems it "depressingly prescient" a decade from now.
Howard, Cherry Jones and Alice Eve are fantastic throughout, and the climactic wedding confrontation is a thing of hilarious, sad, f***ed up beauty.