If you’ve ever been a Netflix member for any period of time, there’s probably a good chance you’ve seen an episode or two of Black Mirror.
The sci-fi anthology series, often likened to a modern Twilight Zone, is one of the most popular on Netflix and is currently entering its seventh season.
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But did you know it originally wasn’t supposed to be on Netflix at all?
The original two-season run of Black Mirror in the UK was only on Channel 4, and no American networks wanted to touch the series for a licensing deal. (If you’ve seen the first episode, which features a terrorist kidnapping a royal princess and threatening to execute her unless the country’s Prime Minister has sex with a pig on a livestream, it’s not exactly hard to see why.)
But then, Netflix bought the U.S. streaming rights just before the
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