The episode as a whole, which we placed second in our ranking of the six new episodes, takes Uber’s 5-star rating system to extremes, seeing people rate their fellow citizens on pretty much every social interaction.
Black Mirror takes a lot of shots at modern technology, or more specifically the way we use it/our appetite for it, but it’s never usually literal.
In new episode ‘Nosedive’ however, one gag was pretty obviously aimed at the iPhone.
The show tends to invent fake social networks, fake tech giants and fake gadgets, that bear similarities to existing ones but are never direct parodies.