Abstract
Black Mirror is a British television anthology series, created by Charlie Brooker, which shows the dark side of life and technology. Although each episode has a different cast, a different setting, and a different reality, they are all about the ineffable power of technology and social media in our own lives.The paper focuses on the first episode of the anthology series (The National Anthem), which was first aired on 2011. The episode is a political thriller in which UK Prime Minister faces a huge and shocking dilemma when Princess Susannah, a member of the Royal Family and a media celebrity, is kidnapped. For her safe return, the Prime Minister must have live sexual relations with a pig on national television.Investigating the paradoxical cooperation between multiple media platforms and their influence on public opinion, the paper describes contemporary technological, cultural, and social changes, with a particular attention to the relationship between citizens and politicians. Analyzing the humiliating performance of the Prime Minister as an extreme artistic creation, the paper shows how the logic of the reality show, typical of the pop politics, has contributed to exasperate the contemporary institutional crisis.
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