Black Mirror: The National Anthem (2011)
Season 1, Episode 1
9/10
Incredibly bold and prescient
22 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
With all the allegations (uncorroborated) around Piggate (just Google it), this series opener was incredibly prescient big time. Charlie Brooker is one talented guy, and his creation of Black Mirror really tapped into our social media/mobile phone/internet/Facebook obsession. This was before Pokemon Go by the way.

This episode is disturbing in many ways, and you can sort of imagine pranksters pulling off such a stunt to humiliate those in power. Wow! Anyway, you are kept guessing until the end and you wonder will the British Prime Minister cave into the demands of the kidnapper? The end is skilfully filmed, and maybe there are DVD outtakes on this.
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