"Black Mirror", the dystopian sci-fi drama which aired in UK’s Channel 4, has recently caught the spotlight on Twitter. The series which hails from Charlie Brooker, received quite the attention after Daily Mail published a story on Monday morning about UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his supposed drug use and debauchery way back in college. The front page featured some allegations against Cameron released through an unauthorized biography authored by Lord Ashcroft.
According to the bio, Cameron allegedly put “a private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth during an initiation in college. The controversial news captured Twitter immediately and arrived with #Piggate. The Twittersphere did not miss a second and eventually referenced the hashtag to a 2013 episode of Black Mirror.
The series premiere of Black Mirror titled “National Anthem” addresses a fictional kidnapping angle. When a princess was taken by a mysterious source, he demands the United Kingdom Prime Minister to have sexual intercourse with a pig while being broadcasted on live TV, Zap2it wrote.
The compelling storyline which strongly mirrored the recent allegation against Cameron somehow proved that life does imitate art. Later, Brooker expressed his reaction on the coincidence of his fictional dementing tale and the #Piggate trend -- citing that he had no idea about the aforementioned alleged deeds of the Prime Minister. "The first question people were asking me was, "Did I know anything about it?" And the answer is no, absolutely not. I probably wouldn’t have bothered writing an episode of a fictional comedy-drama if I’d known. I’d have been running around screaming it into traffic. It’s a complete coincidence, albeit a quite bizarre one," the creator said in a report from The Guardian.
Black Mirror is a British mini-series created by Charlie Brooker which tackles the profound and negative effects of technology in the modern era. Its pilot episode mirrored a controversial allegation against UK Prime Minister David Cameron which triggered the trending #Piggate on Twitter.
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