S3E5

Men Against Fire

Black Mirror · 2016-10-21 · 60 min

FLICKFEEL

—

from 9 comments

COMMUNITY

—

nobody yet

YOURS

—

…

what happens

After his first battle with an elusive enemy, a soldier begins experiencing unfamiliar sensations and strange technical glitches.

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

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 9 comments — 4 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.
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.

Reddit9 read

“I love the implication at the end”
▲ 1,044about 85–100% inread it ↗
“The scene with the translator completely fried my brain. I guess since I'm danish, my brain went into full overtime and shut down when they spoke danish and english over each other, I couldn't understand anything at all and had to rewind the scene three times to get it. It was crazy, I've never tried that before, I was like I couldn't understand any of the languages.”
Riivus▲ 569about 33–66% inread it ↗
“The scene where they replayed his "heroic" actions to him was fucking brutal”
Kenny__Loggins▲ 348about 50–75% inread it ↗
“this episode fucked with my head and my reason”

who made it

directed: Jakob Verbruggen
written: Charlie Brooker

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Malachi Kirby as Stripe
Madeline Brewer as Raiman
Ariane Labed as Catarina
Sarah Snook as Medina
Michael Kelly as Arquette
Kola Bokinni as Lennard
Francis Magee as Parn Heidekker

rate this episode