Again in 2015, an unofficial biography alleged that former Prime Minister David Cameron’s college days had been stuffed with debauchery. Extra particularly, he was concerned in an initiation ceremony at Oxford that concerned Cameron inserting his penis in a lifeless pig’s head, which is in some way worse than what Charlie Brooker got here up with for “Black Mirror.”

Talking with Empire for its July 2023 difficulty, Brooker mirrored on the episode. “That really despatched me a bit bonkers for a brief interval, as a result of I assumed, ‘That may’t be actual! Certainly that may’t have occurred? It is too eerily shut,'” Brooker mentioned. “It makes you are feeling such as you’re dwelling in a simulation.”

The factor is, Brooker is unsuitable. One thing so dumb as a man who places his penis in a lifeless pig’s head for some dumb frat initiation happening to develop into Prime Minister is so unbelievably dumb that it proves past a shadow of a doubt we aren’t in a simulation. There is not any means somebody or one thing would intentionally write a storyline this foolish.

A part of the explanation the episode nonetheless holds up is that it’s from the early days of the present, earlier than “Black Mirror” went international. Again then, the problems and the tales and satires had been uniquely British, extra biting, extra particular. As talked about, “The Nationwide Anthem” works not as a result of it is a couple of Prime Minister having intercourse with a pig, however due to the way it framed it from a British perspective, satirizing the media, the tradition, and the traditions of the nation. Even when newer episodes are extra formidable or look extra visually spectacular, it’s that first episode that made this present what it’s, and the episode with probably the most weird real-life connection.