10 TV Episodes That Wanted To Piss You Off

Black Mirror has prided itself on pushing the audience's buttons over the years, but the satirical sci-fi series has never delivered a more violently bewildering twist ending than in the season three episode "Shut Up and Dance."

The episode follows teenager Kenny (Alex Lawther), who is blackmailed into committing a series of actions by a hacker who has captured video of him masturbating through his laptop.

Teamed with another blackmailed man, Hector (Jerome Flynn), Kenny carries out a bank robbery, at which point audiences might begin to consider whether robbing a bank is really worth preventing the spread of such a video.

It's revealed at the end of the episode that Kenny was actually pleasuring himself to child pornography, and though Kenny ultimately does everything the hacker asks, the video is released anyway and the episode ends with the police approaching him.

Though some praised the episode's boldness in tearing down the stereotype that all paedophiles are gross old men, others expressed volcanic rage at the plot twist, feeling that it was deployed for mere shock value and undermined the episode's focus on the dangers of technology.

Simply, this was a bold swing of a twist, and writer-creator Charlie Brooker acutely knew it would piss a large portion of the audience off. That it started a conversation and generated discourse, though, is the most important thing.