![]() It was meant to show how much the public cares about the media. The public now has more information and more power to change other people's minds. This episode shows how public opinion has become more important in the age of social media. In this episode, we learn a lot of important things about our time, like how politics is run by the press, the public, and social media, and can never be kept under wraps. Although, in a shocking twist unknown to the Prime Minister, it is revealed that the princess had actually been released well before the event, making the Prime Minister's actions meaningless. The National Anthem tells the story of the humiliation of the British Prime Minister, who is forced to have sex with a pig on live television in order to save the kidnapped princess. In Black Mirror, the very first episode is also one of the most disturbing. It shows us the power of the internet, technology, and how easy it is to get caught for your mistakes. The horrific and disturbing events that happen in the most ordinary and contemporary setting is what makes this episode so disturbing, along with the empathy the audience develops for someone who turns out to be a pedophile, offering the audience a glimpse of events that are very possible in real life. The shocking twist in this episode is that, it wouldn't have mattered whether Kenny would have obeyed the hackers or not, he would have been caught, only now for multiple crimes instead. When Kenny thinks that he is finally free, his mother phones him and yells at him for "looking at kids." Kenny's internet habits, which remained a mystery for most of the episode, have been leaked by the hackers, and he is arrested on charges of child pornography. While throughout the episode, it is hard to not feel any sympathy towards Kenny, the audience are unaware of the disturbing, underlying reason for his desperate compliance with the blackmail. Exploring themes of techno-paranoia, Kenny shoots and kills an unidentified man in the middle of the forest on the orders of his blackmailers. They threaten him into a series of stacked blackmails, including a bank robbery with another man ensnared in blackmail, or they will leak his secret. ![]() Kenny's laptop camera was used by an unknown hacker to record him pleasuring himself. It just goes to show, the truth will always come out. ![]() Just when the audience think her secrets will be locked away forever, the guinea pig's memories are extracted through a Recaller and all of Mia's murders are exposed. Not only did she kill an innocent child, but while she thinks she got away with murder, Shazia's pet guinea pig saw everything. The plot twist in this episode is truly unexpected and shocking what Mia didn't know was that Shazia's child was born blind and wouldn't have been a witness. Related: The Best British Television of the 2010s Mia becomes completely exposedm and so murders Shazia, her husband, and even their toddler to make sure no witnesses are left, in the hope that her secret will finally be safe, ultimately digging herself a deep, dark rabbit hole. When Mia kills Rob to keep her past crimes a secret, she is unfortunate enough to witness an accident from a window, drawing attention from private investigator Shazia, who uses Recallers to extract memories from people. Fifteen years after Mia (Andrea Riseborough, from the UK thriller Here Before) helps her friend Rob cover up a hit-and-run death, Rob wants to come clean about the murder.
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