the national anthem '' is the first episode of black mirror.
the national anthem '' is the first episode of black mirror.
what's the first episode of black mirror?
`` the national anthem ''
journalists have reported that some of the concepts in "black mirror" have come true, in fashion, within the real world, and have called the series a magic 8-ball for the future. the first episode, "the national anthem", revolves around the british prime minister being blackmailed into having sex with a pig; in september 2015, four years after the episode aired, allegations were published that david cameron, who at the time was british prime minister had placed a "private part" into the mouth of a dead pig as part of a university initiation rite. brooker has called the event a "coincidence, albeit a quite bizarre one", and was quite perturbed when he first heard the allegations: "i did genuinely for a moment wonder if reality was a simulation, whether it exists only to trick me", he said in an interview. several news reports compared donald trump's 2016 presidential campaign to "the waldo moment", a 2013 episode in the second series; later, in september 2016, brooker also compared the trump campaign to the episode and predicted trump would win the 2016 election. the third series episode "nosedive" presented a social rating-based system that several found mirrored by china's proposed social credit system. brooker has been surprised to see how some of these events had come to pass. "it was quite trippy, though. i'm kind of getting used to it, because it seems like it's quite often that there are things that are in the stories that come true." ten days after the release of series four episode "crocodile" – which included a self-driving pizza delivery truck as a major plot device – toyota and pizza hut announced the e-palette, a driverless delivery vehicle, at the 2018 consumer electronic show. the conceptual vehicle drew numerous comparisons with its fictional counterpart, and the official twitter account for "black mirror" commented on the announcement, saying, "we know how this goes."
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it is considered to have "one of the most shocking twists on "black mirror"", as jenelle riley of "variety" puts it, some time before the third series started. writing before the third series, margaret lyons of "the new york times" said it is "the most outright disturbing" episode of "black mirror". right after it aired, cocks deemed it "the single darkest episode of "black mirror" so far" and considered its twist to be "nothing short of genius". sims stated that it "is, by a significant margin, the most disturbing episode "black mirror" has produced". although he praised the twist as "a smart one, brilliantly concealed and smartly revealed", he criticised it because "once the point is made, it is made over and over again." lambie praised its "fearsome pace" and highlighted "its subtle approach", with sparse dialogue, that gives "the events and performances greater impact". he concluded: "its horror-infused drama leaves us unsure whom we can trust or what will happen next, and its last act is truly gut-wrenching". monahan wrote that the twist was unpredictable and the episode "was an exciting and efficient piece of narrative rug-pulling".
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