Shut Up and Dance

Hackers with a webcam video force a teenager through a day of escalating crimes.

"Shut Up and Dance" is the third episode of Black Mirror's third series, written by Charlie Brooker and William Bridges. It premiered on Netflix on 21 October 2016 with the rest of series three.

Quick Facts

Series: Black Mirror
Writer: Charlie Brooker; William Bridges
Director: James Watkins
Photographer: Tim Maurice-Jones
Editor: Jon Harris
Length: 52 minutes
Released: 21 October 2016

Lore & Background

Kenny (Alex Lawther), a teenage boy, is blackmailed by anonymous hackers who hold a video of him masturbating and order him through a series of bizarre and criminal tasks. He is joined by a middle-aged man (Jerome Flynn) being blackmailed over an affair. The episode is one of the show's darkest and shares themes with the earlier "White Bear".

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