black mirror tv programme

[Thomas Micklewright]

Anyone else just watch black mirror - about the princess kidnapping and the PM forced to have sex with a pig?

Your thoughts if those request were made for real? Surely the gov. Would not do that?

Tom

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Alas, I lost 45 minutes of my life this morning watching that drivel. It was too bad to turn off. If that was satire it was lost on me. Charlie Brooker - nuff said.

And of course, Thomas, in real life that would never happen ...

[Jeremy]

It was a bit crap. We also spent a minute on the "what if it was real" debate, before deciding it was just too ridiculous to warrant further discussion.

Although the next 2 episodes look a bit more interesting, with more of a sci-fi angle.

[Cassius]

I just felt sorry for the pig.

[maxxi]

The problem with Mr Brooker is that the more you think you are the only one who really gets it the more obvious and broadly sketched your satire becomes; a patronising kind of satire or 'pratire' if you will.

Truman-show-esque in its dismissal of the great unwashed (us) as ciphers and completely lacking in (intentional) humour - he should stick to ranting in print.

[*Bob*]

His track record in commenting on tv (various columns / blogs / and the most excellent Newswipe) is somewhat at odds with the quality of Zeppotron's actual TV output proper.

I expect he's beginning to discover that slagging off sh1t telly is considerably easier than making good telly.

[Ted Max]

With my extensive industry knowledge and TV insider status I can confidently state that his zombie Big Brother thing was OK.

[*Bob*]

.. and Lee Mack's All-Star Cast?

[Ted Max]

*Bob* wins.

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[*Bob*]

Believe me, Ted - I take no pleasure in seeing a show fail. Even the ones where someone else got the job.

None whatsoever.

[pablogrande]

My question is, if it took the kidnapping of a Princess to get the Prime Minister to shag a Pig, what did they threaten John Major with to get him to do it with Edwina Currie?

[nashoi]

I rather liked it although I think Maxxi makes some good points. It reminded me of a story Hunter S Thompson told in The Great Shark Hunt about how Lyndon Johnson first got elected to Congress.

'It was 1948 Lyndon was running about 10 points behind, with only nine days to go... He was sunk in despair. He was desperate... he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference at two or two-thirty ( just after lunch on a slow news day) and accuse his high-riding opponent (the pig farmer) of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children... His campaign manager was shocked. 'We can't say that, Lyndon,' he said. 'It's not true.' 'Of course it's not,' Johnson barked at him, 'but let's make the bastard deny it.'

I think the TV show would have been interesting had he not gone through with it and he'd just suffered from the association.