15 Most Disturbing Black Mirror Moments

Is there even any reason to explain why this is so high up on the list?

When Black Mirror was still a young pup, and Channel Four aired its pilot episode, the show seemed less of a dystopian horror fable and more of a political satire taken to the extreme. In this episode, the main character was a fictitious UK Prime Minister. In order to save the life of an abducted royal, he had to publicly have sex with a pig on live TV.

As nobody yet knew the tone of Black Mirror, it seemed inconceivable that this event would actually transpire. But it did, and it was horrid for all concerned. But what was remarkably clever was the cross-realm like-minded reaction of viewers and fictitious public alike.

Everyone thought it would be funny, yet nobody laughed when it happened. The public, eager to see the event, ended up glaring in dumbfounded distress, and so grew an all-encompassing sense of shame which affected all characters concerned. No single human or animal deserved the experience, and as it was all done for the sake of an elaborate art project, a perturbing sense of emptiness shrouded the whole story.