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Black Mirror
Metalhead
Directed by
David Slade
TV-MA
S4 • E5
Dec 29, 2017
41m
6.6
6.3
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At an abandoned warehouse, scavengers searching for supplies encounter a ruthless foe and flee for their lives through a bleak wasteland.
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Cast of Metalhead
Maxine Peake
Bella
Jake Davies
Clarke
Clint Dyer
Anthony
David Slade
Director
Charlie Brooker
Writer
Louise Sutton
Producer
Ian Hogan
Co-Producer
Catrin Meredydd
Production Design
Aaron Morton
Director Of Photography
Tony Kearns
Editor
Black Mirror - S4 • E5 Ratings & Reviews
Ms En Scene
Jazmine Joyner
What's so wild about the story is that all this is over a teddy bear she's trying to retrieve. Something so simple, but in a world like "Metalhead," a teddy bear can become a rare bit of hope.
SFX Magazine
Leon Hurley
The sparse dialogue only creates more space for the fear, desperation and, ultimately, the story to expand into.
TV Line
TV Line Staff
We never learn enough about the woman to care very much whether she survives or not.
Esquire Magazine
Corey Atad
The style makes for a dreary, terrifying, suspenseful episode that's at once extremely simple, and pretty damn effective.
Collider
Aubrey Page
At 40 minutes long, it's likely the show's shortest episode yet, but it drags anyway, somehow unhelped by its manic pacing and thumping score.
Hollywood Reporter
Jackie Strause
...its simplicity makes it too much of a contained story when compared to the rest of the season four offerings.
TheWrap
Tim Molloy
This bleak and stripped down survival story is an all-out stunner.
El Pais (Spain)
Eneko Ruiz Jimenez
We believe that this is the worst episode of the series. [Full Review in Spanish]
IGN Movies
David Griffin
The episode is beautifully filmed in black and white and the palpable tension is expertly layered throughout.
Uproxx
Alan Sepinwall
As a one-off, it's a tough but very effective watch.
Refinery29
Elena Nicolaou
"Metalhead" is Black Mirror meets thriller meets black-and-white arthouse cinema, and it's downright riveting.
Slate
Willa Paskin
A gripping, claustrophobic battle between woman and machine...
Metro (UK)
Adam Starkey
Metalhead casts the net wider with apocalyptic indie movie grit...Metalhead is an interesting experiment and welcome palette cleanser, but proves an unremarkable episode.
Globe and Mail
Russell Smith
The whole episode is in a sense a paean to the American military-industrial complex.
Entertainment Weekly
Dana Schwartz
The episode never becomes more than the sum of its parts. But, with excellent acting and pacing and beautiful shots, those parts are pretty good.
Independent (UK)
Jacob Stolworthy
'Metalhead' is the shortest Black Mirror episode to date but feels like the longest - which is the highest compliment you can pay it: a relentless heart-racing 38-minute stalk and slash.
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Ed Cumming
Interesting as all this is, however, it's not enough to sustain Metalhead over its 40-minute running time...this feels more like an elongated short.
The Atlantic
David Sims
The visuals were what carried me through the quieter moments, with Slade making sure every glimpse of the empty moors in high-contrast black-and-white photography jumps out at the viewer.
AV Club
Zack Handlen
It's pretty much the opposite of hopeful, but the directness of the premise is terrifically appealing. This is basic narrative with clear and immediate stakes, and a threat that's just interesting enough to keep us invested.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Charles Bramesco
Most episodes of Black Mirror posit themselves as cautionary tales, and yet Metalhead is one of the few in which all of the alarmism feels merited.
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