syncing the dopamine…
S4E1
USS Callister
Black Mirror · 2017-12-29 · 76 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 13 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Capt. Robert Daly presides over his crew with wisdom and courage. But a new recruit will soon discover nothing on this spaceship is what it seems.
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
33
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
58
how much it moved you
Read from 13 comments — 7 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.
Reddit14 read
“That scene toward the end summarises it perfectly "I'm sorry...but you also threw my son out of an airlock so fuck you"”
EroticCake▲ 4,745about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I had to pause the episode it made me laugh so hard!”
spid3rfly▲ 4,600about 50–60% inread it ↗
“had me laughing out loud”
Classic_Wingers▲ 4,236about 50–75% inread it ↗
“it gave me such anxiety.”
▲ 3,957about 50–75% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Toby Haynes
- written
- William Bridges, Charlie Brooker
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Jesse Plemons as Robert Daly
Cristin Milioti as Nanette Cole
Jimmi Simpson as James Walton
Michaela Coel as Shania
Billy Magnussen as Karl Plowman / Valdak
Milanka Brooks as Elena Tulaska
Osy Ikhile as Nate Packer