i pray that this is picked up for another series, or another set of episodes. It really is the new Twilight Zone =) each story feels like a very contained satirical horror film. Brooker is just brilliant.
Personally I thought The National Anthem was one of the finest moments on television to come out in the last few years, daring and bold Charlie didn't hesitate to ram home his take on our modern society, and wasn't to far from the truth in my opinion.
Yeah, a whole ward of nurses staring at a video of Cameron fcuking a pig for a whole hour, like they've got nothing better to do or something. That was almost insulting. And it being played in pubs while the barmaid nonchalantly pulls pints. What was this meant to be, some kind of League of Gentlemen type comedy? I know X-Factor, Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity, et al, which the general public lap up like morons are all fucking awful shite, but to make the leap to pig-fucking is just ridiculous.
@LyricalWax Also it was a pisstake on Gordon Brown apologizing to Gillian Duffy after public opinion got out of control and left him with little choice but to swallow his pride and do so. Next weeks episode takes place in an alternate futuristic reality - these are all "Worst case scenarios" of the downside of technology not "This could actually happen!"
@LyricalWax I think you took it way to seriously- it was more a pisstake on the amount of humiliating and degrading stuff we already watch on a TV on a day to day bases and the obsession the masses have over sensationalism, which is all very true. Just take a look at "I'm a Celebrity" millions of people tune in to watch someone eat a camel penis. Exaggerated or not the message is still true.
@DarkAlignment Lol, just posted above that I know I'm a Celebrity and other 'reality TV' which the general public lap up is all awful crap, but to make the leap to pig-fucking is just ridiculous. Even as a satirical "worst-case" scenario, it just didn't hold any water.
And trust me when I say I'm a huge fan of Brooker, but this must the first thing of his, written or screened, that I've not liked, let alone hated.
Just the premise mind, can't fault the production, music, atmosphere or acting.
@LyricalWax I thought it held plenty of water. He wasn't accusing us all of watching someone fuck a pig- just societies mob-mentality in general when it comes to social-networking... The PM was forced into a situation that normally would have been swept under the rug, but because of Youtube that didnt happen. Then the news tried to underplay the story, but twitter or facebook wouldn't let it happen. The story wasn't about the pig-fucking at all, it just symbolised a humiliating act.
@LyricalWax Like Gordon Brown apologizing to Gillian Duffy. In terms of story telling, i think that was a fantastic idea. If you need something humiliating for the PM to do, why not push it all the way?
@DarkAlignment Oh man, I know people are entitled to opinions and all but I can't believe you're comparing this to the Duffy apology!! Woah, what a vicious mob mentality that was, the heartless bastards! And I'm sorry, but the only thing convincing him to do it was those stupid opinion polls. If anything, that's where it fell through, as if the PM, or ANYONE with a shred of decency would do such an act all because of polls and a stupid twitter feed?! I know this isn't The Wire but that's insane!
@LyricalWax Listen. Your taking this to seriously, and Charlie himself said its a parody of the Duffy apology, Black Mirror is drenched in symbolism, not reality. Next weeks episode is about people who spend there entire lives on exercise bikes for the chance to take part in an X-Factor styled contest. I hope that doesn't make your head explode or accuse charlie of saying people would actually do that in real life.
@LyricalWax That's your opinion I guess, but I thought it was a perfectly told story, and has already received praise among reviewers across the net, just because you don't get it, don't bash it. Personally I think you were just grossed out by the bestiality to really see anything else in it. And mob mentality IS very vicious, always. People were sneering and condemning Jade Goody even as she lay on her death bed, and in the darkest parts of the world people are still executed for witchcraft.
@LyricalWax And I don't think it was a stretch. If an unpopular PM was forced to do something horrific for the sake of a popular princess, I think alot NOT ALL, but alot of people would goad him on to do so. He may not actually do it, but people would still be rooting for it to happen, maybe not you, but alot of people. Because things like this has happened before, and when people voice there opinions within the masses they can be right pricks.
Watched halfway through first episode then stopped, someone tell me this, is the ending okay to watch or does the worst outcome happen? Don't wanna watch it if it's horrid
@ZombieSlayer1210 Don't watch, it was shit and annoying. Such a rubbish comment on society if that's what he was trying to do. It's a bit hard to predict and parody the reactions of 20-odd million people and the whole British media.
@DarkAlignment Well of course I wouldn't! Not because I'm better than anyone but because that's kind of a repulsive thing to watch in my opinion. But whatever floats your boat.
And to think he was trying to say we all would, or 99% of us or whatever, so much so that if Princess Kate was staggering about the Millennium Bridge for HALF AN HOUR after being abducted, no one would notice... well, I call bullshit on that.
And don't get me started on the (bloke's!) severed finger.
Loving the choice of music for the 2 ads I've seen. Hearing Portishead's The Rip on the tele last week really drew my attention away from the laptop (I never watch ads as a point of principle, but I inadvertently listen to them sometimes).
Channel 4. Shitting on BBC since 1982.
LewstarMK 2 months ago
Needs more pig.
TheKirk15 2 months ago
what song is in this advert, i've been trying to find it for ages!
shannongracesterling 2 months ago 2
@shannongracesterling machine gun by portishead (you need to skip near the end though)
ShiZno360 2 months ago
I think of this whenever I see David Cameron on TV now.
10KLaura 2 months ago
Brilliant Series.
m187m187 2 months ago
That was a very dark programme indeed!
22poopoo 2 months ago
Does anyone know what music is playing in the background? :S
mwoosey 2 months ago
@mwoosey Machine Gun by Portishead
Fantastic song. Now go watch the video.
salenth 2 months ago
@salenth Thanks for the track :) And I have watched the program. I've seen National Anthem twice and 15 Million Merits 5 times already :')
mwoosey 2 months ago
i pray that this is picked up for another series, or another set of episodes. It really is the new Twilight Zone =) each story feels like a very contained satirical horror film. Brooker is just brilliant.
LucasW180 2 months ago
where the fuck can i watch this??
PaperMoonMedia 2 months ago
@PaperMoonMedia You can watch it on 4od, the first two episodes of this series should be up there (National Anthem and 15 Million Merits).
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
@DarkAlignment go to channel4 . com it should be on there both episodes:)
BATTERFOX09 2 months ago
my stomach is still unsettled from watching it
bronzebrunettes 2 months ago
@bronzebrunettes same here
MrGRB96 2 months ago
Oink oink callow
arcane9fire 2 months ago 5
The best thing I've seen on tv since Game of Thrones!!
davros59 2 months ago
i'm sorry but charlie brooker has a very sick mind. who comes up with a story like this?
rachie441 2 months ago
@rachie441 Totally agree!
LadyHarrington2k 2 months ago
Personally I thought The National Anthem was one of the finest moments on television to come out in the last few years, daring and bold Charlie didn't hesitate to ram home his take on our modern society, and wasn't to far from the truth in my opinion.
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
Yeah, a whole ward of nurses staring at a video of Cameron fcuking a pig for a whole hour, like they've got nothing better to do or something. That was almost insulting. And it being played in pubs while the barmaid nonchalantly pulls pints. What was this meant to be, some kind of League of Gentlemen type comedy? I know X-Factor, Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity, et al, which the general public lap up like morons are all fucking awful shite, but to make the leap to pig-fucking is just ridiculous.
LyricalWax 2 months ago
@LyricalWax Also it was a pisstake on Gordon Brown apologizing to Gillian Duffy after public opinion got out of control and left him with little choice but to swallow his pride and do so. Next weeks episode takes place in an alternate futuristic reality - these are all "Worst case scenarios" of the downside of technology not "This could actually happen!"
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
why would you fuck a pig? the royal family is pointless
estewart98 2 months ago in playlist More videos from channel4
@estewart98 i agree to an aextent that no human (if tey are moraly good) is pointless but its about shame but it has a great twist at the end.
xbox360guywithnoobs 2 months ago
Machine Gun - Portishead
Thewlis 2 months ago
Song name? Or song origin?
MsBickle76 2 months ago
Song name?
MsBickle76 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
That was so shit, even as an attempt at satire. And I'm one of Charlie's biggest fans. Really hoping the others are at least a million times better.
LyricalWax 2 months ago
@LyricalWax I think you took it way to seriously- it was more a pisstake on the amount of humiliating and degrading stuff we already watch on a TV on a day to day bases and the obsession the masses have over sensationalism, which is all very true. Just take a look at "I'm a Celebrity" millions of people tune in to watch someone eat a camel penis. Exaggerated or not the message is still true.
DarkAlignment 2 months ago 2
@DarkAlignment Lol, just posted above that I know I'm a Celebrity and other 'reality TV' which the general public lap up is all awful crap, but to make the leap to pig-fucking is just ridiculous. Even as a satirical "worst-case" scenario, it just didn't hold any water.
And trust me when I say I'm a huge fan of Brooker, but this must the first thing of his, written or screened, that I've not liked, let alone hated.
Just the premise mind, can't fault the production, music, atmosphere or acting.
LyricalWax 2 months ago
@LyricalWax I thought it held plenty of water. He wasn't accusing us all of watching someone fuck a pig- just societies mob-mentality in general when it comes to social-networking... The PM was forced into a situation that normally would have been swept under the rug, but because of Youtube that didnt happen. Then the news tried to underplay the story, but twitter or facebook wouldn't let it happen. The story wasn't about the pig-fucking at all, it just symbolised a humiliating act.
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
@LyricalWax Like Gordon Brown apologizing to Gillian Duffy. In terms of story telling, i think that was a fantastic idea. If you need something humiliating for the PM to do, why not push it all the way?
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
@DarkAlignment Oh man, I know people are entitled to opinions and all but I can't believe you're comparing this to the Duffy apology!! Woah, what a vicious mob mentality that was, the heartless bastards! And I'm sorry, but the only thing convincing him to do it was those stupid opinion polls. If anything, that's where it fell through, as if the PM, or ANYONE with a shred of decency would do such an act all because of polls and a stupid twitter feed?! I know this isn't The Wire but that's insane!
LyricalWax 2 months ago
@LyricalWax Listen. Your taking this to seriously, and Charlie himself said its a parody of the Duffy apology, Black Mirror is drenched in symbolism, not reality. Next weeks episode is about people who spend there entire lives on exercise bikes for the chance to take part in an X-Factor styled contest. I hope that doesn't make your head explode or accuse charlie of saying people would actually do that in real life.
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
@DarkAlignment That's kind of my point, realism aside, even using an extreme bizarre situation as a comment on society, it was utterly flawed.
LyricalWax 2 months ago
@LyricalWax That's your opinion I guess, but I thought it was a perfectly told story, and has already received praise among reviewers across the net, just because you don't get it, don't bash it. Personally I think you were just grossed out by the bestiality to really see anything else in it. And mob mentality IS very vicious, always. People were sneering and condemning Jade Goody even as she lay on her death bed, and in the darkest parts of the world people are still executed for witchcraft.
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
@LyricalWax And I don't think it was a stretch. If an unpopular PM was forced to do something horrific for the sake of a popular princess, I think alot NOT ALL, but alot of people would goad him on to do so. He may not actually do it, but people would still be rooting for it to happen, maybe not you, but alot of people. Because things like this has happened before, and when people voice there opinions within the masses they can be right pricks.
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
PMs gonna get pig AIDS LOL
SKTCSirDigby 2 months ago 7
Watched halfway through first episode then stopped, someone tell me this, is the ending okay to watch or does the worst outcome happen? Don't wanna watch it if it's horrid
ZombieSlayer1210 2 months ago
@ZombieSlayer1210 No it's good! It's not scary or anything
HaaiiiThere 2 months ago
@ZombieSlayer1210 Don't watch, it was shit and annoying. Such a rubbish comment on society if that's what he was trying to do. It's a bit hard to predict and parody the reactions of 20-odd million people and the whole British media.
LyricalWax 2 months ago
@LyricalWax yeah I bet if the PM had sex with a pig on national television you totally wouldnt watch it, your better then that.
DarkAlignment 2 months ago
@DarkAlignment Well of course I wouldn't! Not because I'm better than anyone but because that's kind of a repulsive thing to watch in my opinion. But whatever floats your boat.
And to think he was trying to say we all would, or 99% of us or whatever, so much so that if Princess Kate was staggering about the Millennium Bridge for HALF AN HOUR after being abducted, no one would notice... well, I call bullshit on that.
And don't get me started on the (bloke's!) severed finger.
LyricalWax 2 months ago
@ZombieSlayer1210 Stop being such a fucking baby and watch it.
UKHoboso 2 months ago
@ZombieSlayer1210 You don't see anything bad at all.
AvatarTwasCheesy 2 months ago
@ZombieSlayer1210 you dont acctualy see him shagging the pig if thats what you mean
estewart98 2 months ago
The Black Mirror version of youtube is much wittier than the real one.
camydoger 2 months ago
What's got 6 legs and makes you laugh? Michael Callow fucking a pig!
MrZantkiller 2 months ago 4
thought this was really interesting and absolutely awful at the same time.
jui42 2 months ago
I AM SO EXCITED
mollyleahallman96 2 months ago
That series is going to take WAY too long to get anywhere.
Gearsdisraeli 3 months ago
I'm going to collapse its wave functions in this subset
luttman23 3 months ago
Oh what? I was going to completely ignore this...but now that its Charlie Brooker's Im the biggest fan ever! (I understand that I am in fact, a cun)
Gazmus 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Calling it now - ends in tragedy.
smpowis 3 months ago
Im in this!!
dramakingdt1 3 months ago
I am pregnant or SUTIN
rankthis 3 months ago
Really looking forward to this one!
SuziSuz 3 months ago
kvte
marsharent 3 months ago
Cute.
SoylentCyan 3 months ago
whats the music?
JoshuaHubbardmedia 3 months ago
@JoshuaHubbardmedia Machine gun by portishead
NowhereKing 3 months ago
@JoshuaHubbardmedia Portishead - Machine Gun
littleirishmonster 2 months ago
Looks cute.
stork101 3 months ago 16
@stork101 he has to fuck a pig on live TV on every channel...
MrPlumblord 1 month ago
@MrPlumblord Yes, I know.
stork101 1 month ago
Charlie Brooker = God.
Luke874 3 months ago
Loving the choice of music for the 2 ads I've seen. Hearing Portishead's The Rip on the tele last week really drew my attention away from the laptop (I never watch ads as a point of principle, but I inadvertently listen to them sometimes).
101RadioheadCovers 3 months ago
Interesting premise, good cast.. Looking forward to this! :)
helkatuk 3 months ago
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this looks so good
AmaneSuganami 3 months ago
OoooooOOOOOOoo!
RachelMadeThis 3 months ago
Cute
szczepansky 3 months ago
My body is ready...
ascvilla 3 months ago
Looks haunting and brilliant.
Btw, who the fuck put their reaction as "Cute"?
TheRandyChimp 3 months ago 6
Looking forward to another Charlie Brooker series.
MrMachka 3 months ago 41
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TooLuckyy 3 months ago