Black Mirror?

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Originally Posted by Fish

Watched the very first episode, National Anthem, and thought it was the stupidest thing I'd seen in a long while. The entire premise was just so ridiculous and unbelievable, I didn't want to continue with the rest of the episodes. Painfully stupid and disgusting.

Synopsis, if you haven't seen it and don't care about spoilers:

Spoiler!

So the princess of England is kidnapped. The kidnapper gives his demands, which is only that the Prime Minister of England had to **** a pig on live TV and it had to be broadcast on every station, and he had to "Finish". And for some reason, every single person in the country is like "Sorry, dude you have to go through with it and **** that pig on worldwide TV because it's the princess." Nobody but the Prime Minister seems to give a moments pause that they shouldn't give in to terrorist demands or anything. Nope, just pig ****ing. No choice, just get on with it.

I saw NewChief put this series on his watch list so I too watched this episode. My reaction was the EXACT same as yours.
I mean WTF?
Maybe I’ll watch a different ep to see if this one was an outlier.