Black Mirror (The National Anthem)

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” –O’Brien, from George Orwell’s “1984”

The closest thing I have to a grievance towards “The National Anthem” is that, with its semblance to farce along the lines of “The Thick of It” and “Veep”, it doesn’t do a good job of establishing “Black Mirror” as an SF anthology series. Otherwise, this is prime political drama, focusing its lens on all of us as we (choose to) gawk at the theater on display. We, fortunately, don’t have cameras on us, most of the time.

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