Nosedive Discussion Questions
1) How does the rating system at the heart of the episode work to organize society?
2) What values, behaviors, and beliefs does the system promote?
3) What values, beliefs, and behaviors does the system actively or passively punish or discourage? What are the consequences for those who behave outside the norm?
4) How is the rating system a form of currency in this society? Do they also use "real money"? How are the two related?
5) What parallels do you see between this system and current forms of social media in our world? What about other forms of surveillance or social control in our society?
6) How does the pastel aesthetic complement the themes of the episode?
7) What utopian elements does the society possess? What dystopian elements?
8) The episode seems to encourage a kind of freedom or escape from the system as a solution to it. Is freedom or escape really possible in this society? What would be the consequences of a life lived bucking the system?
2) What values, behaviors, and beliefs does the system promote?
3) What values, beliefs, and behaviors does the system actively or passively punish or discourage? What are the consequences for those who behave outside the norm?
4) How is the rating system a form of currency in this society? Do they also use "real money"? How are the two related?
5) What parallels do you see between this system and current forms of social media in our world? What about other forms of surveillance or social control in our society?
6) How does the pastel aesthetic complement the themes of the episode?
7) What utopian elements does the society possess? What dystopian elements?
8) The episode seems to encourage a kind of freedom or escape from the system as a solution to it. Is freedom or escape really possible in this society? What would be the consequences of a life lived bucking the system?
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