syncing the dopamine…
S3E2
Playtest
Black Mirror · 2016-10-21 · 57 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 17 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
An American traveler short on cash signs up to test a revolutionary new gaming system, only to discover the thrills are a little too real.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
18
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
63
how much it moved you
Read from 17 comments — 15 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
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
openingending
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.
Reddit21 read
“at the start he was your standard cargo pants chill American dude”
Amarahh▲ 2,040about 0–33% inread it ↗
“as the 'game' progressed he becomes a terrified traumatised wreck of a man”
Amarahh▲ 2,040about 33–100% inread it ↗
“how depressing the ending is”
SunflowerSamurai_▲ 1,706about 75–100% inread it ↗
“He died horribly, and screaming out for his mother”
SunflowerSamurai_▲ 1,706about 75–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Dan Trachtenberg
- written
- Charlie Brooker
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Wyatt Russell as Cooper Redfield
Hannah John-Kamen as Sonja
Wunmi Mosaku as Katie
Ken Yamamura as Shou Saito
Elizabeth Moynihan as Cooper's Mum
Jamie Paul as Rick Peters- JJessica Neil as Scared Girl on Plane
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