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Black Mirror S3E03 "Shut Up and Dance" discussion thread

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Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 3 - Shut Up and Dance

After a virus infects his laptop, a teen faces a daunting choice: carry out orders delivered by text message, or risk having intimate secrets exposed.

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  1. cfabbro
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    Ugh... This episode made me so damn uncomfortable that I actually felt nauseous at the end. It took me days to recover enough emotionally to actually watch the next episode of Black Mirror and...

    Ugh... This episode made me so damn uncomfortable that I actually felt nauseous at the end. It took me days to recover enough emotionally to actually watch the next episode of Black Mirror and because of that there is no way in hell I am watching it again to do a "proper" review either. It also makes it incredibly hard to score since I hated every moment of the episode, will never watch it again and warn every single person I recommend Black Mirror to about it but it wasn't a bad episode... it was just evil. I am honestly stuck vacillating between scoring it a 0/5 and 5/5. 0/5 because I fucking hate how it made me feel but 5/5 because it actually did manage to make me feel something so strongly and left that much of an impression on me.

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  2. cain
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    This was a good "fucked up" black mirror episode, most of the episode you think 'what's the big deal, is he really going to do [insert action] just to avoid some video of him jerking off leaking?"...

    This was a good "fucked up" black mirror episode, most of the episode you think 'what's the big deal, is he really going to do [insert action] just to avoid some video of him jerking off leaking?" was pretty crazy that the hacker dude made them all 'dance' for him and every single one of them wound of exposed anyway, or dead.

    It's been a while since I watched but the scene in the forest where the fight to the death is about to begin and the other guy says "How old were they?" or something like that it just gutted me. So THAT'S why he didn't want to get exposed. Then the phone call from his mom before the police show up man that episode was rough. All episode kind of cheering for this kid and it just gets ripped out from under you when you find out what he did.

    A great, but average Black Mirror episode IMO I'm giving it a 3.5/5

    Also discovered the show "The End of the F***ing World" by looking up the actor and enjoyed that as well

    6 votes