![]() ![]() Alphabet News Network: UKN, the fictional news channel which reports on stories throughout the series.and how human reaction to these things is twisted by new technology. Asshole Victim: Occasionally played straight, but deconstructed more often than not, particularly in "White Bear", "Shut Up and Dance", "Hated in the Nation", "White Christmas", and "USS Callister".Author Tract: The entire point of the series, when you get down to it, is making a point on the effects of technological advancement on our humanity.In 'The National Anthem' it is said to exist alongside the BBC, ITV and Sky in the Black Mirror universe. The assholes often do things that make them seem unsympathetic such as being rude overall to engaging in child murder or pornography, but the events they go through are so utterly horrific that any sense of schadenfreude is drained right out. Meanwhile, their tormentors, those that have designated them assholes, are very clearly little better than those they attack and humiliate, often using pretensions of vigilante justice to engage in being assholes themselves. ![]()
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