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Black Mirror
Shut Up and Dance
Directed by
James Watkins
TV-MA
S3 • E3
Oct 20, 2016
53m
8.4
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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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Cast of Shut Up and Dance
Alex Lawther
Kenny
Jerome Flynn
Hector
Susannah Doyle
Blackmailed Woman
Frankie Wilson
Tom
Jimmy Roye-Dunne
Red
Hannah Steele
Melissa
Sarah Beck Mather
Restaurant Mother
Beatrice Robertson-Jones
Restaurant Daughter
Maya Gerber
Lindsay
Camilla Power
Sandra
Ivanno Jeremiah
Moped Man
Mariam Haque
Petrol Station Attendant
Natasha Little
Karen
Nicola Sloane
Bank Clerk
Paul Bazely
The Man in the Woods
Leanne Best
Penny
James Watkins
Director
William Bridges
Writer
Charlie Brooker
Writer
Lucy Dyke
Producer
Shut Up and Dance Ratings & Reviews
Punisher
April 21, 2025
Unfortunately, reality
Slashfilm
Jacob Hall
It's not that "Shut Up and Dance" is a bad hour of entertainment - it's that it's a half-measure approach to a concept we've seen done a dozen times before and frequently executed with more menace and wit.
Hollywood Reporter
Jackie Strause
Lawther's performance stands out and the episode will leave viewers questioning humanity.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Charles Bramesco
There's some decent character work in the middle...but the rest is sheer unpleasantness in want of a greater statement.
Collider
Aubrey Page
"Shut Up and Dance" certainly has its merits, but it's also perhaps the most succinct example of just how wrong Black Mirror can go.
TheWrap
Tim Molloy
No episode of "Black Mirror" will leave you feeling worse about humanity than this one. It's brilliantly plotted and paced, and the ultimate prank is on you. Oh, also? It could happen.
The Young Folks
Gary Shannon
There's an outrageousness to Shut Up and Dance that makes it both easier and more difficult to enjoy. It's the most suspense-driven and conventional of the third season.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Charles Mudede
This one is just rubbish.
The Verge
Josh Dzieza
The twist makes sense as a plot mechanism -- but the revelation, coupled with a dated trollface meme, turns the episode extremely bleak, even for Black Mirror.
Paste Magazine
Roxanne Sancto
Shut Up and Dance grippingly demonstrates how dangerous our tendency to use the Internet as an extension of ourselves has become, and how easily it can be used to manipulate us -- in the most despicable ways.
El Pais (Spain)
Eneko Ruiz Jimenez
An overwhelming story of psychological terror, a spooky road trip that could never have a good ending. [Full Review in Spanish]
The Mary Sue
Charline Jao
Often, it feels almost too sadistic, but this heavy-handedness doesn't feel out of place. While not my favorite episode, it succeeds in being deeply unsettling
Uproxx
Alan Sepinwall
Despite good work from Jerome Flynn and Alex Lawther as our terrified chief blackmail victims, this one never really worked for me. A big part of the problem was the need to have a twist ending.
Collider
Adam Chitwood
Shut Up and Dance, while not a bad episode, is a frustratingly tense one.
The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert
The episode felt like too much of an endurance test, with no clear message or moment of redemption to take away from it.
Nerdist
Matthew Hart
Shut Up and Dance, which has almost zero actual dancing, taps into a fear that's probably crossed everybody's mind at some point now that we're in the internet age: cyber blackmail.
Vox
Caroline Framke
It's a predictable trajectory, and if it weren't for a set of rock-solid performances, there wouldn't be much else to make this chapter stand out.
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Robbie Collin
[It's a] soul-scorching, relentlessly riveting new episode .
Digital Spy
Alex Mullane
As an already-murky story gets darker, and there's nobody left to root for, the closing sequence... is fantastic... It's just a shame that, by that point, it's so difficult to care.
Entertainment Weekly
Madeline Raynor
Black Mirror tackles the consequences of getting hacked, although it wouldn't be Black Mirror if those consequences weren't the most extreme ones imaginable.
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