S3E2
Playtest
Black Mirror · 2016-10-21 · 57 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 17 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
An American traveler short on cash signs up to test a revolutionary new gaming system, only to discover the thrills are a little too real.
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
18
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
63
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 17 comments — 15 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
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.
“at the start he was your standard cargo pants chill American dude”
Amarahh▲ 2,040about 0–33% inread it ↗
“as the 'game' progressed he becomes a terrified traumatised wreck of a man”
Amarahh▲ 2,040about 33–100% inread it ↗
“how depressing the ending is”
SunflowerSamurai_▲ 1,706about 75–100% inread it ↗
“He died horribly, and screaming out for his mother”
SunflowerSamurai_▲ 1,706about 75–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Dan Trachtenberg
- written
- Charlie Brooker
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Wyatt Russell as Cooper Redfield
Hannah John-Kamen as Sonja
Wunmi Mosaku as Katie
Ken Yamamura as Shou Saito
Elizabeth Moynihan as Cooper's Mum
Jamie Paul as Rick Peters- JJessica Neil as Scared Girl on Plane
- JJade Francine as Pub Local (uncredited)