In December 2014 , Stephen King noted his admiration of the series . The series ' Christmas special that year , " White Christmas " received critical acclaim . Ben Beaumont-Thomas of '' The Guardian '' praised the comic satire of the episode and noted that " sentimentality is offset with wicked wit , and Brooker 's brio and imagination paper over any gaps in logic . " '' The Daily Telegraph '' reviewer Mark Monahan gave the episode 4/5 stars , noting that the drama was " thrilling stuff : escapist entertainment with a very real-world sting in its tail " . Monahan equated the episode with the stronger of the previous '' Black Mirror '' episodes , stating that " it exaggerated present-day technology and obsessions to subtle but infernal effect , a nightmare-before-Christmas reminder that to revere our digital gizmos is to become their pathetic slave . " Journalists have reported that some of the concepts in '' Black Mirror '' have come true , in fashion , within the real world , and have called the series a Magic 8-Ball for the future . The first episode , " The National Anthem " , revolves around the British Prime Minister being blackmailed into having sex with a pig ; in September 2015 , four years after the episode aired , allegations were published that David Cameron , who at the time was British Prime Minister had placed a " private part " into the mouth of a dead pig as part of a university initiation rite . Brooker has called the event a " coincidence , albeit a quite bizarre one " , and was quite perturbed when he first heard the allegations : " I did genuinely for a moment wonder if reality was a simulation , whether it exists only to trick me " , he said in an interview . Several news reports compared Donald Trump 's 2016 presidential campaign to " The Waldo Moment " , a 2013 episode in the second series ; later , in September 2016 , Brooker also compared the Trump campaign to the episode and predicted Trump would win the 2016 election . The third series episode " Nosedive " presented a social rating-based system that several found mirrored by China 's proposed Social Credit System . Brooker has been surprised to see how some of these events had come to pass . " It was quite trippy , though . I 'm kind of getting used to it , because it seems like it 's quite often that there are things that are in the stories that come true . " Ten days after the release of series four episode " Crocodile " – which included a self-driving pizza delivery truck as a major plot device – Toyota and Pizza Hut announced the e-Palette , a driverless delivery vehicle , at the 2018 Consumer Electronic Show . The conceptual vehicle drew numerous comparisons with its fictional counterpart , and the official Twitter account for '' Black Mirror '' commented on the announcement , saying , " We know how this goes . " In November 2012 , '' Black Mirror '' won Best TV Movie/Miniseries at the International Emmy Awards . Bryce Dallas Howard received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her performance in the episode " Nosedive " . At the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards , '' Black Mirror '' received three nominations with two wins , including Outstanding Television Movie for " San Junipero " . " USS Callister " received three Emmy Awards and four Emmy nominations in 2018
69th Primetime Emmy Awards
69th Primetime Emmy Awards
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