As a series, Black Mirror attempts to show audiences the current/future dangers of technology. In the episode Shut up and Dance, the main purpose is to show the importance of information privacy and security. The directors set the episode in a modern technological setting, where everything depicted is realistic and plausible in the current time period. The directors use this realistic setting to show viewers that what happens to the characters in the episode could also happen to them. The realism allows the audience to better understand how the dangers of cybercrime faced by the characters can also affect them. The directors use events in the episode as a warning to the audience, if they do not follow information security practices then their information is at risk. If their information falls into the wrong hands, then their entire livelihoods are also at risk, similarly to the characters in the episode. To conclude, the directors of Shut up and Dance provide a frighteningly plausible series of events stemming from bad information security practices as a way to warn the audience of the dangers of cybercrime.