S4E2

Arkangel

Black Mirror · 2017-12-29 · 52 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 13 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Worried about her daughter's safety, single mom Marie signs up for a cutting-edge device that monitors the girl's whereabouts -- and much more.

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 13 comments — 6 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

“Kinda creeped me the fuck out when she turned on the vision and saw herself from the doorway o_o”
LiquidSwords89▲ 5,237about 50–60% inread it ↗
“Oh my god, she just watched her kid have sex. That's so fucked”
im_mr_roboto▲ 3,326about 75–100% inread it ↗
“once she watches Sarah having sex, just throw the fucking monitor away. She has clearly outgrown it.”
surya2141▲ 2,719about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Watching her beat her mother with the tablet was the most satisfying”
JLPM▲ 2,031

who made it

directed: Jodie Foster
written: Charlie Brooker

guest cast

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

Rosemarie DeWitt as Marie
Brenna Harding as Sara
Owen Teague as Trick
Sarah Abbott as Sara age 9
Matt Baram as Dr. Usborne
Dempsey Bryk as Cal
Aniya Hodge as Sara age 3

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