History Recap / BlackMirrorMetalhead

* TooDumbToLive: True to the genre the episode pays homage to, the protagonists tend to make spectacularly dumb decisions on a regular basis. To name but the two worst examples: 1) Bella knows the Dog can track radio transmissions, yet instead of keeping it short and precise, she goes on a veritable speech like she just won the Oscar. 2) The very reason the trio even went to the warehouse in the first place - to get a teddy bear for some kid that won't live to see the next week anyway. Doesn't get much dumber than that in a world overrun by murderous robo-dogs you can't defend against.

* DownerEnding: Bella successfully destroys the Dog, but has been implanted with trackers that are attracting more (and can't be removed without extreme injury) so she kills herself afterward. Her allies Tony and Clarke are dead and the failure of anyone to answer her last transmission suggests that whatever hideout she came from has been wiped out too. The ending montage implies that the Dogs have already overrun the rest of the country, and maybe the entire world. Even worse is that all three of them died trying to get a ''teddy bear''. For a child who's already ill and dying.

In a post-apocalyptic DeliberatelyMonochrome world devoid of life, a woman is pursued by a robotic guard dog hellbent on killing her.

** Bella is able to blind the Dog, but pressing the start button on the car turns on the car radio as well, drawing the Dog to her location. Fortunately she uses this as a lure.

* SoMuchForStealth
** Bella is able to lead the Dog off by placing the tracker inside a bottle and throwing it into the river, but gives her position away with her radio transmission.
** The Dog takes a kitchen knife and tests the attachment by [[WeaponTwirling spinning it]], letting Bella know a Dog is inside the house with her.
** Bella is able to blind the Dog, but pressing the start button on the car turns on the car radio as well, drawing the Dog to her location.

* ShootEverythingThatMoves: Apparently the Dogs have [[ScorchedEarth no target discrimination between humans and animals]]--at the start of the episode the characters pass a pig farm and discuss how the Dogs would have killed them off as well. Again we've no indication as to whether this is down to poor programming or an intent to kill livestock to starve out anyone who manages to avoid the Dogs.

* DownerEnding: Bella successfully destroys the Dog, but has been implanted with trackers that are attracting more (and can't be removed without extreme injury) so she kills herself afterward. Her allies Tony and Clarke are dead and the failure of anyone to answer her last transmission suggests that whatever hideout she came from has been wiped out too. The ending montage implies that the Dogs have already overrun the rest of the country, and maybe the entire world. Even worse is that all three of them died trying to get a ''teddy bear''.

[[Recap/BlackMirrorUSSCallister USS Callister]] | [[Recap/BlackMirrorArkAngel ArkAngel]] | [[Recap/BlackMirrorCrocodile Crocodile]] | [[Recap/BlackMirrorHangTheDJ Hang the DJ]] | '''Metalhead''' | [[Recap/BlackMirrorBlackMuseum Black Museum]]-]]]]]

* FinalSolution: As an alternative theory to GoneHorriblyWrong is that the dogs' mission is to completely depopulate an enemy country.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: While the episode itself gives no backstory on the "Dogs", one can easily imagine from TheReveal that they're nothing but robotic security whose programming got messed up somehow ([[ShownTheirWork like many contemporary drones tend to do at one point or another]]), or were given guidelines too draconian by TooDumbToLive human masters.

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Starring Maxine Peake.

-->'''Tony:''' Are you sure it's going to be in there?
-->'''Bella:''' Of course I'm not sure.

Starring [[Series/{{Silk}} Maxine]] [[Series/TheVillage Peake]].

* HopeSpot: Two in quick succession:

** Earlier Bella is able to drain the Dog's power while it has her trapped up a tree overnight, but once the sun comes up it's able to recharge using solar power.

* DownerEnding: Bella successfully destroys the Dog, but has been implanted with trackers that are attracting more (and can't be removed without extreme injury) so she kills herself afterward. Her allies Tony and Clarke are dead, and the failure of anyone to answer her last transmission suggests that whatever hideout she came from has been wiped out too. The ending montage implies that the Dogs have already overrun the rest of the country, and maybe the entire world.

** A much more exotic version happens when Clarke is killed by the dog in a hacked self-driving van, and then it ''[[ParanoiaFuel hacks into the car and starts chasing her]]''.

* DownerEnding: Bella successfully destroys the Dog, but has been implanted with trackers that are attracting more (and can't be removed without extreme injury) so she kills herself afterward. Her allies Tony and Clarke are dead, and the failure for anyone to answer her last transmission implies that the place she came from has been wiped out too. The ending montage implies that the Dogs have already overrun the rest of the country, and maybe the entire world.

* DownerEnding: Bella successfully destroys the Dog, but has been implanted with trackers that are attracting more (and can't be removed without extreme injury) so she kills herself afterward and her allies Tony and Clarke are dead. The ending montage implies that the Dogs have already overrun the rest of the world.

* DrivenToSuicide: Bella kills herself after the Dog implants trackers on her, with the camera panning out just before she does the deed.