Hated In The Nation

"Hated in the Nation"
Black Mirror episode
Detective Parke (Kelly Macdonald, right) meets her new partner Blue (Faye Marsay).
Episode no.	Series 3 Episode 6
Directed by	James Hawes
Written by	Charlie Brooker
Featured music	Original Score by Martin Phipps
Original air date	21 October 2016 (2016-10-21)
Running time	89 minutes
Guest appearance(s)
Kelly Macdonald as DCI Karin Parke Faye Marsay as T/DC Blue Coulson Benedict Wong as Shaun Li Jonas Karlsson as Rasmus Sjoberg Joe Armstrong as DS Nick Shelton Elizabeth Berrington as Jo Powers Charles Babalola as Tusk Ben Miles as Chancellor Tom Pickering Esther Hall as Vanessa Dahl Holli Dempsey as Clara Meades Vinette Robinson as Liza Bahar Georgina Rich as Tess Wallander Duncan Pow as Garrett Scholes Cecilia Noble as Dame Patricia Lamarr Katherine Kingsley as Dana Costello James Larkin as Simon Powers Robin Pearce as Harry Barclay Adrian Lukis as Home Secretary Alex Willis Jane Bertish as Head of MI5 Anita Anand as News Anchor Thomas Dominique as Roadie Leonie Elliott as Fiona, Clara's Flatmate Reon Smith Marshall as Aaron Sheen Matheus Mirek as Delivery Man Jeremy Booth as Dog Walker Tom Ashley as Paramedic
Episode chronology
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List of Black Mirror episodes

"Hated in the Nation" is the sixth and final episode of the third season of British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. Written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and directed by James Hawes, it premiered on Netflix on 21 October 2016, along with the rest of series three. It is the longest episode in the series at 89 minutes.

The episode is a murder mystery, and follows Detective Karin Parke (Kelly Macdonald) and her new partner Blue Coulson (Faye Marsay) who, together with the help of National Crime Agency officer Shaun Li (Benedict Wong), try to solve the inexplicable deaths of people who were all the target of social media.

The episode was critically acclaimed.

Detective Chief Inspector Karin Parke (Kelly Macdonald) has been summoned to a hearing. She begins speaking about Jo Powers (Elizabeth Berrington), a journalist subjected to online death threats after publicly lambasting a disability activist's recent self-immolation. Powers returns home to the delivery of a cake reading "Fucking bitch", and sees death threats and hate messages directed at her on social media; she is later found dead, and her husband injured.

Parke investigates the death, with Trainee Detective Constable Blue Coulson (Faye Marsay) as her shadow, and Nick Shelton (Joe Armstrong) also working on the case. The death is assumed to be murder by her husband, but he claims that Powers cut her own throat with a wine bottle, injuring him as he tried to stop her. Parke and Coulson visit the sender of the cake, Liza Bahar (Vinette Robinson), who had crowdfunded the money for it, and posted a message online reading "#DeathTo Jo Powers".