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* WeightWoe: Lacie had an eating disorder while growing up and took a bite out of her cookie for a social media post without eating it at the beginning of the episode. Bryce Dallas Howard even gained 30lbs for the role to look like somebody concerned with her self-image.
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In a smiley, status-obsessed dystopian future where people rate each other on a Facebook [[XMeetsY meets]] [=TripAdvisor=] hybrid social media platform, an insecure office worker sees an opportunity for social advancement when an old school-friend, [[TheBeautifulElite one of the top-rated elite]], gets back in touch and invites her to her upcoming wedding.
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* HoYay: When Paul finishes his speech at the wedding, he immediately goes over to his best man and gives him a very intimate-looking frat-boy chest bump, with their eyes locked to each others'. Not once in this sequence does he look at his gorgeous wife Naomi, and the look on her face says it all. This heavily implies that the union is purely a MarriageOfConvenience for the sake of higher ratings and the two don't actually love each other.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Overlaps with BrightIsNotGood. The only person who wears black in the episode is the TallDarkAndHandsome prisoner in the cell opposite Lacie's. [[OnlySaneMan Susan]] also wears dark gray. Given everyone else in the show is absorbed into the horrifically shallow and status-obsessed society and wears bright pastel colours, dark colours might be a thematic shorthand for truth and reality. To add to the theme, Lacie has black mascara running down her face during her wedding breakdown, representing her realisation about her societ.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In a world where everyone is ranked from one to five, obtaining an average of ''less'' than one should be impossible. That said, the trope is averted as Lacie was temporarily docked a full point at the airport, it's unclear as to how Double Damage is calculated, and she was at the wedding less than twenty-four hours after her point was deducted (the time she was told it would last).
** On top of that, the lowest a person can rank another person is one out of five, and it's shown that each time someone is ranked that it correlates to a thousandth of a point increase for each star. This means that no one should ever ''lose'' points, but merely gain them at a slower rate, unless a one equals a negative five.
** On top of that, the lowest a person can rank another person is one out of five, and it's shown that each time someone is ranked that it correlates to a thousandth of a point increase for each star. This means that no one should ever ''lose'' points, but merely gain them at a slower rate, unless a one equals a negative five.
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** JerkassHasAPoint: She also points out, correctly, that Lacie only took up the offer to raise her own rating.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]; in this universe, everyone ''pretends'' to be nice to the waiter lest they risk a downvote.
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** Lacie is nice to the agent at the airport at first to keep from being rated down and so the agent makes an exception for her, but yells and curses at the agent when it's clear that the agent can't, or won't, give her that credit. Those behind her in line [[FromBadToWorse immediately give her a poor rating as soon as she gets frustrated.]]
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played with. Lacie's brother, who she rooms with, can come off as uncouth and a slacker, but he genuinely seems to miss the Lacie who wasn't obsessed with ratings.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lacie stands in front of the mirror, [[StepfordSmiler patiently practising trying to laugh in a nonchalant fashion]].
* FailedDramaticExit: Lacie leaves her brother behind in the flat with a snarky comment, but then has to return to fetch Mr Rags.
* FeedbackRule: Downplayed. There is a slight feedback when Lacie grabs the mic at the wedding.
* FlyingUnderTheGaydar:Naomi's husband and his best man. Their relationship seems a tiny bit closer than just HeterosexualLifePartners and Naomi herself reacts with disdain to it.
* FailedDramaticExit: Lacie leaves her brother behind in the flat with a snarky comment, but then has to return to fetch Mr Rags.
* FeedbackRule: Downplayed. There is a slight feedback when Lacie grabs the mic at the wedding.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lacie stands in front of the mirror, [[StepfordSmiler patiently practising trying to laugh in a nonchalant fashion]].
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* FailedDramaticExit: Lacie leaves her brother behind in the flat with a snarky comment, but then has to return to fetchMr Mister Rags.
* FeedbackRule: Downplayed. There is a slight feedback when Lacie grabs themic microphone at the wedding.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Naomi states outright that [[spoiler:the only reason she wanted Lacie to be her maid-of-honor was for purely unsentimental reasons: a 4.8 giving such an opportunity to a "mere" 4.2 would be seen by everyone as Naomi being supremely kind and generous to her less-fortunate friend, netting her a glut of fives. Naturally, Lacie is dumped as soon as her rating drops too low.]]
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An insecure office worker living in a smiley, status-obsessed nightmare finds a way to join an old friend as one of society's elites.
!!Tropes related to ''Nosedive'':
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Social media ratings appear to rule people's lives in everything from housing to jobs here. Electrical cars are the norm, with charging stations instead of gas pumps (this hurts Lacie as her rental car is an older model that won't work without an adapter).
-->'''Creator/CharlieBrooker''': Everyone is terrified of being marked down because the consequences of that are unpleasant. So, it's basically the world we live in.
* AlphaBitch: ''Naomi.''
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played with. Lacie's brother, who she rooms with, can come off as uncouth and a slacker, but he genuinely seems to miss the Lacie who wasn't obsessed with ratings.
* TheBeautifulElite: Those rated 4.5 or higher. Naomi's wedding is full of them.
* BittersweetEnding:[[spoiler: Lacie has lost all of her social standing and is ultimately arrested after a nothing-to-lose wedding visit, but this winds up being an extreme personal liberation for her. She's happy to be out of the system and has real interactions with fellow prisoners. Additionally, she wanted in the Lifestyle Community to find someone, and the prisoner she interacts with looks like the man used in the hologram and advertising.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Doesn't really fly very well in this world.
-->'''Susan''': It turned out a lot of my "friends" didn't care for honesty. Treated me like I had taken a shit at their breakfast table. But Jesus Christ it felt good, sheddin' those fuckers. It was like takin' off tight shoes.
* CallBack: Lacie meets up with fans of a sci-fi show called ''Sea of Tranquility'', which was also mentioned in "The National Anthem."
* ClusterFBomb:[[spoiler: Lacie and the other prisoner are ''gleeful'' to be able to swear freely at last.]]
* ContinuityNod: At the office, a post by Michael Callow, the Prime Minister from "The National Anthem", can be [[FreezeFrameBonus seen]] as a top trending post in Lacie's computer.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Everything seems made of light pastels and happy smiles, but it's a pretty horrible world to live in where everyone constantly judges your every move.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The rating system seems to breed these. People get downvoted for the tiniest of slights, which then has serious real-world consequences. One of Lacie's colleagues did nothing more than [[FelonyMisdemeanor break up with his partner]], but most of their mutual [[WithFriendsLikeThese friends]] turn on him and downvote him so badly he can't get into his own office building, and presumably loses his job.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The ending of this episode is basically a comment-section flame war.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lacie stands in front of the mirror, [[StepfordSmiler patiently practising trying to laugh in a nonchalant fashion]].
* FailedDramaticExit: Lacie leaves her brother behind in the flat with a snarky comment, but then has to return to fetch Mr Rags.
* FeedbackRule: Downplayed. There is a slight feedback when Lacie grabs the mic at the wedding.
* FlyingUnderTheGaydar:[[spoiler: Naomi's husband and his best man. Their relationship seems a tiny bit closer than just HeterosexualLifePartners and Naomi herself reacts with disdain to it.]]
* FromBadToWorse: The whole premise of the episode.
* GlassyPrison: Lacie ends up in a glassy jail cell.
* HappinessIsMandatory: ... because if your bad mood makes other people sad, you'll be ranked badly.
* HumiliationConga: For Lacie.
* InVinoVeritas: The truck driver gives a thermos full of whiskey to Lacie as an "escape hatch". [[DrowningMySorrows She downs it with pleasure]] and is thus dangerously/hilariously sincere upon her arrival at the wedding.
* {{Jerkass}}: Naomi states outright that [[spoiler:the only reason she wanted Lacie to be her maid-of-honor was for purely unsentimental reasons: a 4.8 giving such an opportunity to a "mere" 4.2 would be seen by everyone as Naomi being supremely kind and generous to her less-fortunate friend, netting her a glut of fives. Naturally, Lacie is dumped as soon as her rating drops too low.]]
** JerkassHasAPoint: She also points out, correctly, that Lacie only took up the offer to raise her own rating.
* KafkaKomedy: Lacie's journey to the wedding has some elements of this.
* LaughingMad: Lacie, during the wedding speech.
* MsFanservice: In-universe, Naomi clearly plays up her looks at every opportunity to maintain her social status. Every time she's on a video chat, she just happens to be in revealing swimwear or doing yoga.
* NiceToTheWaiter: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]; in this universe, everyone ''pretends'' to be nice to the waiter lest they risk a downvote.
** Lacie is nice to the agent at the airport at first so that she won't be rated down and so that the agent makes an exception for her, but yells and curses at the agent when it's clear that the agent can't, or won't, do anything for her. Those behind her in line [[FromBadToWorse immediately give her a poor rating as soon as she gets frustrated.]]
* OnlySaneMan
** After the truck driver lost her late husband to being denied medical care over someone with a ''slightly'' higher rank, she became one of the few characters who don't give a damn about ratings if it means giving up her honesty and principles.
** Lacie's brother, while a slacker, cares very little about the ratings and is satisfied with his lot in life, seeing deliberately aiming for ratings to be empty.
* PercussiveTherapy: When she can't find an adapter Lacie takes out her anger on the cars' bumper.
* PrideBeforeAFall: Lacie touts her mid-four status for some time before taking a nosedive.
* PrincessInRags: Almost literal, as the only thing still in good shape in/about Lacie once she gets to the wedding is the dress.
* ProperLady: All the highly-ranked women are ladylike, dainty, and hyper-feminine. It's even commented on that Naomi wouldn't dare to have her bridesmaids' dresses in any color other than pink. The low-ranked truck driver, on the other hand, dresses far differently.
* RoadTripPlot: Once Lacie is unable to fly to Naomi's wedding, she's forced to drive, and then hitchhike.
* SocialClimber: Lacie. {{Justified|Trope}}, as those with higher rankings get better housing, jobs, and immediate preference in everything from airline seats to medical care.
* SoundEffectBleep: Ches' exasperated "FUCK!" at falling to a 2.4 is barely obscured by a glass door slamming in his face.
* StepfordSmiler: Lacie pretends to live a perfect life so others will rate her higher. [[spoiler:One of the only times she seems genuinely happy is the last scene, where she can freely curse and insult others with no fear of repercussions.]] This is true of most of the people we see (see StepfordSuburbia, below).
* StepfordSuburbia: The world in which Lacie lives is scarily perfect, though it becomes clear fairly quickly that everything is just a façade with almost everyone trying to keep up with the same smiley, ratings-obsessed spell. Public outrages are seen as felonies, people buy coffee just to photograph it, and you must disregard certain acts -- such as being kind to service workers and colleagues -- to keep those precious stars intact. There's even a ratings expert that Lacie visits who is similar to a psychiatrist or a counselor in the real world. [[CrapsaccharineWorld It's easy to see why she ends up snapping halfway through the episode.]]
* SuperBreedingProgram: The "lifestyle community" for the top-rated people. Lacie's brother lampshades it as a "eugenics program".
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Name-checked in-universe by Lacie's brother on the CrapsaccharineWorld she wants to inhabit.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: For all the fawning smiles and glowing five-star reviews, Lacie spits out the biscuit and the coffee is undrinkable. Much hay is also made of homemade tapenade, whose sole effect on her seems to be to ruin her dress.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Part of the truck driver's backstory, whose husband was denied potentially lifesaving medical care because his rank wasn't high enough. She's understandably bitter but refreshingly frank about it.
-->'''Lacie''': I'm so sorry.
-->'''Susan''': You don't know me, so you're not ''really'' sorry... you're just... mainly awkward 'cos I've sprung some cancer talk at ya.
* TrickDialogue: When we first see Lacie deliver her speech, the camera cuts away after some time to reveal that she was only rehearsing it in front of her brother.
* UnkemptBeauty: Lacie gets positively filthy en route to the wedding and loses her pre-prepared look, but she also looks much livelier than before.
* UrbanSegregation: Your score pretty much determines the area you can live in.
* VitriolicBestBuds: [[spoiler:Lacie and the [[HateAtFirstSight unnamed prisoner]] positively sprint into this trope in the final reel with some gleefully baroque insults.]]
* WritersCannotDoMath: In a world where everyone is ranked from one to five, obtaining an average of ''less'' than one should be impossible. That said, the trope is averted as Lacie was temporarily docked a full point at the airport, it's unclear as to how Double Damage is calculated, and she was at the wedding less than twenty-four hours after her point was deducted (the time she was told it would last).
** On top of that, the lowest a person can rank another person is one out of five, and it's shown that each time someone is ranked that it correlates to a thousandth of a point increase for each star. This means that no one should ever ''lose'' points, but merely gain them at a slower rate, unless a one equals a negative five.
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An insecure office worker living in a smiley, status-obsessed nightmare finds a way to join an old friend as one of society's elites.
!!Tropes related to ''Nosedive'':
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Social media ratings appear to rule people's lives in everything from housing to jobs here. Electrical cars are the norm, with charging stations instead of gas pumps (this hurts Lacie as her rental car is an older model that won't work without an adapter).
-->'''Creator/CharlieBrooker''': Everyone is terrified of being marked down because the consequences of that are unpleasant. So, it's basically the world we live in.
* AlphaBitch: ''Naomi.''
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played with. Lacie's brother, who she rooms with, can come off as uncouth and a slacker, but he genuinely seems to miss the Lacie who wasn't obsessed with ratings.
* TheBeautifulElite: Those rated 4.5 or higher. Naomi's wedding is full of them.
* BittersweetEnding:[[spoiler: Lacie has lost all of her social standing and is ultimately arrested after a nothing-to-lose wedding visit, but this winds up being an extreme personal liberation for her. She's happy to be out of the system and has real interactions with fellow prisoners. Additionally, she wanted in the Lifestyle Community to find someone, and the prisoner she interacts with looks like the man used in the hologram and advertising.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Doesn't really fly very well in this world.
-->'''Susan''': It turned out a lot of my "friends" didn't care for honesty. Treated me like I had taken a shit at their breakfast table. But Jesus Christ it felt good, sheddin' those fuckers. It was like takin' off tight shoes.
* CallBack: Lacie meets up with fans of a sci-fi show called ''Sea of Tranquility'', which was also mentioned in "The National Anthem."
* ClusterFBomb:[[spoiler: Lacie and the other prisoner are ''gleeful'' to be able to swear freely at last.]]
* ContinuityNod: At the office, a post by Michael Callow, the Prime Minister from "The National Anthem", can be [[FreezeFrameBonus seen]] as a top trending post in Lacie's computer.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Everything seems made of light pastels and happy smiles, but it's a pretty horrible world to live in where everyone constantly judges your every move.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The rating system seems to breed these. People get downvoted for the tiniest of slights, which then has serious real-world consequences. One of Lacie's colleagues did nothing more than [[FelonyMisdemeanor break up with his partner]], but most of their mutual [[WithFriendsLikeThese friends]] turn on him and downvote him so badly he can't get into his own office building, and presumably loses his job.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The ending of this episode is basically a comment-section flame war.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lacie stands in front of the mirror, [[StepfordSmiler patiently practising trying to laugh in a nonchalant fashion]].
* FailedDramaticExit: Lacie leaves her brother behind in the flat with a snarky comment, but then has to return to fetch Mr Rags.
* FeedbackRule: Downplayed. There is a slight feedback when Lacie grabs the mic at the wedding.
* FlyingUnderTheGaydar:[[spoiler: Naomi's husband and his best man. Their relationship seems a tiny bit closer than just HeterosexualLifePartners and Naomi herself reacts with disdain to it.]]
* FromBadToWorse: The whole premise of the episode.
* GlassyPrison: Lacie ends up in a glassy jail cell.
* HappinessIsMandatory: ... because if your bad mood makes other people sad, you'll be ranked badly.
* HumiliationConga: For Lacie.
* InVinoVeritas: The truck driver gives a thermos full of whiskey to Lacie as an "escape hatch". [[DrowningMySorrows She downs it with pleasure]] and is thus dangerously/hilariously sincere upon her arrival at the wedding.
* {{Jerkass}}: Naomi states outright that [[spoiler:the only reason she wanted Lacie to be her maid-of-honor was for purely unsentimental reasons: a 4.8 giving such an opportunity to a "mere" 4.2 would be seen by everyone as Naomi being supremely kind and generous to her less-fortunate friend, netting her a glut of fives. Naturally, Lacie is dumped as soon as her rating drops too low.]]
** JerkassHasAPoint: She also points out, correctly, that Lacie only took up the offer to raise her own rating.
* KafkaKomedy: Lacie's journey to the wedding has some elements of this.
* LaughingMad: Lacie, during the wedding speech.
* MsFanservice: In-universe, Naomi clearly plays up her looks at every opportunity to maintain her social status. Every time she's on a video chat, she just happens to be in revealing swimwear or doing yoga.
* NiceToTheWaiter: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]; in this universe, everyone ''pretends'' to be nice to the waiter lest they risk a downvote.
** Lacie is nice to the agent at the airport at first so that she won't be rated down and so that the agent makes an exception for her, but yells and curses at the agent when it's clear that the agent can't, or won't, do anything for her. Those behind her in line [[FromBadToWorse immediately give her a poor rating as soon as she gets frustrated.]]
* OnlySaneMan
** After the truck driver lost her late husband to being denied medical care over someone with a ''slightly'' higher rank, she became one of the few characters who don't give a damn about ratings if it means giving up her honesty and principles.
** Lacie's brother, while a slacker, cares very little about the ratings and is satisfied with his lot in life, seeing deliberately aiming for ratings to be empty.
* PercussiveTherapy: When she can't find an adapter Lacie takes out her anger on the cars' bumper.
* PrideBeforeAFall: Lacie touts her mid-four status for some time before taking a nosedive.
* PrincessInRags: Almost literal, as the only thing still in good shape in/about Lacie once she gets to the wedding is the dress.
* ProperLady: All the highly-ranked women are ladylike, dainty, and hyper-feminine. It's even commented on that Naomi wouldn't dare to have her bridesmaids' dresses in any color other than pink. The low-ranked truck driver, on the other hand, dresses far differently.
* RoadTripPlot: Once Lacie is unable to fly to Naomi's wedding, she's forced to drive, and then hitchhike.
* SocialClimber: Lacie. {{Justified|Trope}}, as those with higher rankings get better housing, jobs, and immediate preference in everything from airline seats to medical care.
* SoundEffectBleep: Ches' exasperated "FUCK!" at falling to a 2.4 is barely obscured by a glass door slamming in his face.
* StepfordSmiler: Lacie pretends to live a perfect life so others will rate her higher. [[spoiler:One of the only times she seems genuinely happy is the last scene, where she can freely curse and insult others with no fear of repercussions.]] This is true of most of the people we see (see StepfordSuburbia, below).
* StepfordSuburbia: The world in which Lacie lives is scarily perfect, though it becomes clear fairly quickly that everything is just a façade with almost everyone trying to keep up with the same smiley, ratings-obsessed spell. Public outrages are seen as felonies, people buy coffee just to photograph it, and you must disregard certain acts -- such as being kind to service workers and colleagues -- to keep those precious stars intact. There's even a ratings expert that Lacie visits who is similar to a psychiatrist or a counselor in the real world. [[CrapsaccharineWorld It's easy to see why she ends up snapping halfway through the episode.]]
* SuperBreedingProgram: The "lifestyle community" for the top-rated people. Lacie's brother lampshades it as a "eugenics program".
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Name-checked in-universe by Lacie's brother on the CrapsaccharineWorld she wants to inhabit.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: For all the fawning smiles and glowing five-star reviews, Lacie spits out the biscuit and the coffee is undrinkable. Much hay is also made of homemade tapenade, whose sole effect on her seems to be to ruin her dress.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Part of the truck driver's backstory, whose husband was denied potentially lifesaving medical care because his rank wasn't high enough. She's understandably bitter but refreshingly frank about it.
-->'''Lacie''': I'm so sorry.
-->'''Susan''': You don't know me, so you're not ''really'' sorry... you're just... mainly awkward 'cos I've sprung some cancer talk at ya.
* TrickDialogue: When we first see Lacie deliver her speech, the camera cuts away after some time to reveal that she was only rehearsing it in front of her brother.
* UnkemptBeauty: Lacie gets positively filthy en route to the wedding and loses her pre-prepared look, but she also looks much livelier than before.
* UrbanSegregation: Your score pretty much determines the area you can live in.
* VitriolicBestBuds: [[spoiler:Lacie and the [[HateAtFirstSight unnamed prisoner]] positively sprint into this trope in the final reel with some gleefully baroque insults.]]
* WritersCannotDoMath: In a world where everyone is ranked from one to five, obtaining an average of ''less'' than one should be impossible. That said, the trope is averted as Lacie was temporarily docked a full point at the airport, it's unclear as to how Double Damage is calculated, and she was at the wedding less than twenty-four hours after her point was deducted (the time she was told it would last).
** On top of that, the lowest a person can rank another person is one out of five, and it's shown that each time someone is ranked that it correlates to a thousandth of a point increase for each star. This means that no one should ever ''lose'' points, but merely gain them at a slower rate, unless a one equals a negative five.
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