Episode

Nosedive

A woman desperate to boost her social media score hits the jackpot when she's invited to a swanky wedding, but the trip doesn't go as planned.

Air date:

October 21, 2016

Writer:

Rashida Jones, Michael Schur, Charlie Brooker

Director:

Joe Wright

Air date:

Writer:

Director:

October 21, 2016

Rashida Jones, Michael Schur, Charlie Brooker

Joe Wright

Storyline

A woman who lives in a world where most people are completely overwhelmed by the madness of being popular and important in social reding earns an invitation from her best childhood friend to her marriage, but certain unexpected occasions will try to stop her from reaching In her destiny, had she been able to attend the wedding?

Trivia

‍Given the theme of this episode, co-stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Alice Eve each sought out their own Uber driver ratings as an experiment and Bryce got a 4.8 while Eve got a 4.4.
The teleplay was written by Rashida Jones and Mike Schur, both of whom previously worked together on Parks and Recreation and The Office.
Not a lot of Black Mirror episodes' original music was released as soundtrack albums. In this particular case, composer Max Richter did, in fact, release the album for digital download. It contains 7 tracks, all composed by Richter.
'Bryce Dallas Howard' is in every scene of this episode.
The plot device of ratings determining a person's life was covered more humorously in an episode Community: App Development and Condiments (2014) of Community (2009), as well as more seriously in episode The Orville: Majority Rule (2017) of The Orville (2017).
This is the first episode in the series without any characters with British accents.
In the first episode of Black Mirror, there was a track from an album by composer Max Richter. Richter composed the entire original soundtrack for this episode.
Bryce Dallas Howard and Cherry Jones worked together in The Village.
When Lacie is at the airline counter, her screen indicates that her flight is from BPA to PMA. PMA is presumably Port Mary, where the wedding is to be. In real airport terms, however, BPA is code for Bethpage NY and PMA is code for Pemba, Tanzania, an unlikely destination since it's said that it is a nine-hour drive.
This is the first episode produced for the new distributor, Netflix, prior to this the commissioning distributor was Channel Four Television Corporation (UK)
The language that was pre-set in the rental car is Czech.