Following a woman whose companions are mauled by a mysterious "dog" at a warehouse, "Metalhead" is a chase story set against the empty post-apocalyptic landscape of the Scottish moors.
Reviews
Wow! This episode left me on the edge of my seat the entire time!! I loved the post apocalyptic feel to it! Very nice, Black Mirror!
I love this episode, it's one of my favourites ever since Netflix started producing Black Mirror, but a lot of other people have said that. I'm just curious, has no one else noticed how this episode was based on Eraserhead by David Lynch? There are so many similarities, even in the title, how come that I did not see anyone talking about how similar they are?
This is an episode where the punchline really hits you hard. I dare you to watch this, hate it, see the very last 20 seconds and THEN hear the first five minutes with dialogue again. "This has no dialogue" "This explains nothing" Yeah, it might be TOO artsy to make the dialog from the start really be totally frightening only when you know the end because 35 minutes is over the attention span of some viewers. I really expected at the end a clumsy reveal about the source of the security robots but what you get instead really shows you HOW desperate things have become.And I keep this spoiler free although a real discussion could not be done without spoilers.
Whoever doesn't like it is an idiot that doesn't realize this very well could be real future. The way the dog is designed, the way everything is designed, the way things happened, seem so well thought out, it's as if you're watching a later documentary about the events, not a fictional representation done today.