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mastermind Charlie Brooker has admitted he\'s "alarmed" at how some of the show\'s storylines have transferred into the real world.

The series was first broadcast in the winter of 2011 on Channel 4, offering techno-fused dystopian narratives in the vein of George Orwell and

. However, some of the earlier episodes\' events and ideas seem to have crept into our actual reality.

If fans think that\'s peculiar, just imagine how Brooker must feel having written them...

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, the show\'s creator revealed his inspiration behind it all.

"I think I\'m a natural worrier," he suggested. "That\'s what the show is, me just worrying and having worry fantasies. It\'s alarming how many have come true or there are real world parallels."

\'s season two episode \'The Waldo Moment\' segued into real life with its cartoonish political campaigner using the art of offending people in a bid to get elected. The parallels in American society right now are there for all to see.

\'s first ever episode \'The National Anthem\' also came into focus, which pits the British Prime Minister against a digital terrorist. The episode\'s disturbing plot then witnesses the PM having sex with a pig when faced with blackmail.

Brooker noted: "That was about the public thirst for humiliation and shame."

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In a shocking turn of events, Britain\'s PM at the time David Cameron was caught up in a media frenzy after wild allegations involving a pig hit the headlines in 2015.

episodes such as \'Nosedive\', \'The Entire History of You\' and \'Be Right Back\' all seem plausibly realistic in their technology and representations of society, but if you were hoping they\'d stay as science fiction, too late...

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seasons 1-4 are available to watch on Netflix. The upcoming season 5 is yet to get a confirmed release date.

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