So, those comparisons are pretty understandable, leading the Black Mirror Twitter account to acknowledge the flurry of jokes with their own response: “This isn’t an episode. This isn’t marketing.
“At the time, I thought that was one episode that I didn’t really nail, didn’t get the stakes right.
TV coverage of the election has seen both The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert offer sobering visions of what a Trump presidency will hold.
No surprise, then, that when it became increasingly clear that Donald Trump would secure the presidency; many started channeling their disbelief into making the very same joke.