<P> In December 2014, Stephen King noted his admiration of the series . The show's 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 ." </P> <P> The third series received positive reviews from critics and has a Metacritic rating of 82 out of 100, based on 23 reviews . </P> <P> Journalists have reported that some of the concepts in Black Mirror have come true, in fashion, within the real world, and have called the show 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 the 2016 Donald Trump political campaign to "The Waldo Moment", a 2013 episode in the second series; later, in September 2016, episode writer Charlie 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 ." </P> <P> In November 2012, Black Mirror won Best TV Movie / Miniseries at the International Emmy Awards . International Emmys are for TV series "produced and initially aired outside the US ." After both series aired in the United States, The A.V. Club placed it on its Best of 2013 list (along with Borgen, The Fall, Moone Boy and Please Like Me). 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 . </P>

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