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Black Mirror is a British science fiction anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker, with Brooker and Annabel Jones serving as the programme showrunners. It examines modern society, particularly with regard to the unanticipated consequences of new technologies. Episodes are standalone, usually set in an alternative present or the near future, often with a dark and satirical tone, though some are more experimental and lighter.

 

Black Mirror was inspired by older anthology series like The Twilight Zone, which were able to deal with controversial, contemporary topics without fear of censorship. Brooker developed Black Mirror to highlight topics related to humanity's relationship to technology, creating stories that feature "the way we live now โ€“ and the way we might be living in 10 minutes' time if we're clumsy."โ€ฆ

 

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.[89][90][91] 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.[92] 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.[93] Several news reports compared Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign to "The Waldo Moment", a 2013 episode in the second series;[94][95] later, in September 2016, Brooker also compared the Trump campaign to the episode and predicted Trump would win the 2016 election.[96][97] The third series episode "Nosedive" presented a social rating-based system that several found mirrored by China's proposed Social Credit System.[98][99][100] 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."[101] Ten days after the release of series four episode "Crocodile" โ€“ which included a self-driving pizza delivery truck as a major plot device โ€“ 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,[102][103] and the official Twitter account for Black Mirror commented on the announcement, saying, "We know how this goes."[104]

 

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