This won’t go down as the most quotable episode by any stretch, but “Metalhead” will prey on viewers’ nerve endings until their proper breaking point.
Starring The Theory of Everything’s Maxine Peake, The Missing’s Jake Davies and Hope Springs’ Clint Dyer, this Black Mirror episode doesn’t need bells or whistles to deliver the terror.
Truth be told, “Metalhead” likely wouldn’t lose any of its raw power if it maintained a more realistic color palate, but its black-and-white aesthetic speaks to the stripped-down essence of not only its story, but of Black Mirror’s core focus on “man vs. machine.”