S4E5

Metalhead

Black Mirror · 2017-12-29 · 41 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 13 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

At an abandoned warehouse, scavengers searching for supplies encounter a ruthless foe and flee for their lives through a bleak wasteland.

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 — 13 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.

Reddit16 read

“This really had you tense/anxious the entire time.”
BigFatJeux▲ 2,375about 0–100% inread it ↗
“This had maybe the darkest ending too. She thinks she killed the thing and it drops 15 more trackers in her....fuck.”
BigFatJeux▲ 2,375about 75–100% inread it ↗
“That last shot is heartbreaking.”
am142▲ 2,286about 90–100% inread it ↗
“First 5 minutes honestly had me thinking this was a better episode of the walking dead than the walking dead.”
ronan_the_accuser▲ 1,670about 0–5% in

who made it

directed: David Slade
written: Charlie Brooker

guest cast

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

Maxine Peake as Bella
Jake Davies as Clarke
Clint Dyer as Anthony

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