S7E1

Common People

Black Mirror · 2025-04-10 · 57 min

FLICKFEEL

from 36 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

When a teacher is left fighting for her life, her doting husband signs her up for a high-tech system that keeps her alive — but at a cost.

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 36 comments — 14 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 14 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

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.

Reddit24 read

“when she starts dropping the ads, I've not felt that enraged for a fictional character in years. Fucking despicable.”
TheMightyPhuckules▲ 1,851about 33–66% inread it ↗
“This episode was infuriating”
NecessaryUsername69▲ 1,396about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I did laugh out loud when the saleswoman bumped up her nonchalance”
NecessaryUsername69▲ 1,396about 50–70% inread it ↗
“You could literally see the life draining from Rashida Jones’s eyes as the episode went on”
peachyfloof▲ 1,263

who made it

directed: Ally Pankiw
written: Charlie Brooker, Bisha K. Ali

guest cast

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

Chris O'Dowd as Mike
Rashida Jones as Amanda
Tracee Ellis Ross as Gaynor
Nicholas Cirillo as Shane
Donald Sales as Kyle
MMilana Wan as Tisha
SSofia Hodsoni as Mickey

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