The titles of the six episodes that make up series 3 were announced in July 2016, along with the release date. The trailer for series three of Black Mirror As Black Mirror is an anthology series, each episode is standalone. "Men Against Fire" is the fifth episode of the third series all six episodes in this series were released on Netflix simultaneously on 21 October 2016. Due to its move to Netflix, the show had a larger budget than in previous series. In March 2016, Netflix outbid Channel 4 for the rights to distributing the third series, with a bid of $40 million. Whilst series one and two of Black Mirror were shown on Channel 4 in the UK, in September 2015 Netflix commissioned the series for 12 episodes (split into two series of six episodes). The house is then shown to be a dilapidated empty home. He has tears streaming down his face as he smiles. In the final scene, Stripe, now a decorated officer, approaches the house from his erotic dreams. Arquette forces Stripe to rewatch the sensory feed of his farmhouse raid, where he now sees himself gruesomely killing people. Stripe has the choice to allow his MASS and memory to be reset, or to be imprisoned. Arquette reveals that MASS alters soldiers' senses so they can kill without hesitation or remorse, and that Stripe consented to this when he enlisted before having his memory wiped. Stripe awakens in a cell, where Arquette apologises for his MASS glitch, caused by the LED device. Hunter arrives and kills Catarina and her son Alec, then knocks Stripe unconscious. While laypeople see the group as they are, they treat them as inferior due to propaganda. They are victims of a genocide justified by the military as genetic cleansing. They reach a cave in the woods where the woman, named Catarina, explains that the MASS implant alters soldiers' senses to show people of her ethnic group as inhuman "roaches". Stripe gets up and escapes with the mother and son. Stripe intervenes and wrestles Hunter, knocking her unconscious as she shoots him in the stomach. Stripe finds another woman ( Ariane Labed) with her child, and Hunter prepares to shoot them. Stripe encounters a woman and urges her to flee, but Hunter shoots her dead. After a roach-sniper suddenly kills Medina, the other two soldiers enter the building as the sniper shoots at them. The next day, Medina, Stripe and Hunter arrive at an abandoned housing complex. After further malfunctions the following day, Stripe has his MASS tested and consults a psychologist, Arquette ( Michael Kelly), but neither visit reveals any problems. Stripe is rewarded with an erotic dream following his kills, but his MASS glitches during it. Medina arrests the owner and the squad burns down the farmhouse. Stripe discovers a nest of roaches, one of whom points an LED device at Stripe unfazed, he shoots one roach dead and stabs another to death. Stripe and Hunter's squad searches a farmhouse while squad leader Medina ( Sarah Snook) interrogates the owner, a devout Christian ( Francis Magee). Each soldier has a neural implant called MASS that provides data via augmented reality. "Stripe" Koinange ( Malachi Kirby) and "Hunter" Raiman ( Madeline Brewer) are squadmates in a military that hunts roaches-pale, snarling, humanoid monsters with sharp teeth. "Men Against Fire" was ranked poorly against other Black Mirror episodes by reviewers. Critical commentary frequently notes parallels to Nazi Germany. Other critics found the plot twist predictable and remarked that the storyline relied too heavily on cliches. Positive reviews praised Kirby and Kelly's acting as well as the relevance of the episode in a time of rising xenophobia in Europe and America. The episode received mixed critical reception. Marshall and On Killing by Dave Grossman. Its storyline shifted over time, influenced by Brooker reading Men Against Fire by S.L.A. The episode was first conceived under the name "Inbound" in 2010. In a fateful confrontation with the psychologist Arquette ( Michael Kelly), Stripe learns that the MASS alters his perception of reality. After a malfunctioning of his MASS, a neural implant, he discovers that these "roaches" are ordinary human beings. The episode follows Stripe ( Malachi Kirby), a soldier who hunts humanoid mutants known as roaches. Written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and directed by Jakob Verbruggen, it premiered on Netflix on 21 October 2016, together with the rest of series three. " Men Against Fire" is the fifth and penultimate episode of the third series of British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. The episode is set in a war in an unspecified location, perhaps in Eastern Europe. Malachi Kirby as Stripe, whose acting was well-received.
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