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S3E6
Hated in the Nation
Black Mirror · 2016-10-21 · 89 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 20 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
The death of a journalist at the center of a social media firestorm leads a veteran detective and her tech-savvy apprentice to a chilling discovery.
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
90
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
56
how much it moved you
Read from 20 comments — 9 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
“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 ↗
“I had to pause the show for a bit, I was laughing so hard.”
alchemist5▲ 1,555about 20–80% inread it ↗
“building dread”
neonraisin▲ 890about 33–66% inread it ↗
“I like how the ending cut away from *all of* the violence, both "that horrible week" and "Got him." It's *wanting to watch* people who've "earned a punishment", punished, that made the whole plan so successful.”
who made it
- directed
- James Hawes
- written
- Charlie Brooker
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Kelly Macdonald as Karin Parke
Faye Marsay as Blue Colson
Benedict Wong as Shaun Li
Jonas Karlsson as Rasmus Sjolberg
Joe Armstrong as Nick Shelton
Elizabeth Berrington as Jo Powers
Charles Babalola as Tusk