The creator of 'Black Mirror' swears he didn't know about David Cameron's pig rumors in advance
The biggest story in the UK at the moment are new, explosive allegations, contained in a new biography of British Prime Minister David Cameron, that the PM once put a “private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth as part of an initiation ritual for an exclusive dining club.
The scandal, which is already yielding hundreds of Twitter jokes and “#baeofpigs” memes, is also drawing a huge number of comparisons to “Black Mirror,” the dystopian British TV drama that featured, in its first episode, a shockingly similar story line featuring the British Prime Minister having sex with a pig.
The similarities between Black Mirror’s premiere episode and the David Cameron situation were so uncanny that Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker joked that he’d accidentally created a documentary:
Brooker dug up an old script from the pig episode, and tweeted the part that most closely parallels what’s happening today in the UK:
The parallels were so eerie that Brooker was accused of having had advance knowledge of the Cameron rumors. But he maintains it was all a crazy coincidence:
As for other episodes of “Black Mirror” that could come true, Brooker says he hopes it’s not “White Bear,” the series’ second episode, which contains a horrifying story about child murder, dystopian punishment, and mob justice. Here’s hoping.