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Black Mirror season 3
6 episodes · 2016
FLICKFEEL
85
from 125 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Lovers meet in a surreal paradise, a young man is tormented by strange texts, and a social app wields disturbing power in these high-tech tales.
how it went
Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.
FUN
47
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
59
how much it moved you
Read from 125 comments — 76 said when · across 6 episodes.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. In the first half it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. It tightens hardest in the first half.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
ep 1ep 6
➖ steady — holds one level all the way
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
Reddit24 read
“The reveal at the end made that seemingly innocent scene with that little girl in the beginning forgetting her toy a bit more disturbing.”
IForgotMyPants▲ 4,784about 85–100% inread it ↗
“My biggest laugh of this season was the rapper talking shit about the kid while the kid was backstage.”
daaaaaaBULLS▲ 2,748about 50–66% inread it ↗
“this probably has one of the least depressing endings by far to a Black Mirror episode. With BDH's character finally stripped of all the artificial bullshit and able to let her guard down and be herself. Hell it ends with her and that guy smiling.”
ImFromThe_Future▲ 2,492about 75–100% inread it ↗
“the first half nothing made much sense”
episodes
6 of 6 with a scoreEvery episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.
