This paranoia and desperation to prevent his secret from getting out eventually led to him blindly following every single command the blackmailers gave him, including robbing a bank and engaging in a death fight with another pedophile.ĭespite his many shortcomings, however, Kenny appeared to be genuinely kind-hearted and compassionate, as evidenced through his interaction with a little girl who misplaced her toy at the restaurant he worked at, although in hindsight his encounter can be taken in a completely different way owing to his attraction to children her age. On one particular day, however, Kenny stumbled headfirst into an online trap-he found himself contacted by mysterious cybercriminals who possessed a webcam video of him masturbating to his stash of child pornography and threatened to release it to the world if Kenny did not comply with their demands. Kenny’s concealed nature as a pedophile was without a doubt his darkest secret and one that could very well ruin his life and tarnish his reputation if revealed to the world accordingly, he went to great lengths in order to keep this aspect of his personality concealed, including implementing a lock on his bedroom door and keeping his sister away from his laptop. His interactions with children differed significantly from his personal relationships with colleagues, and he initially attempted to rationalize this amoral and illegal behavior to himself by claiming to have “only looked at pictures”. Beneath his generally unassuming facade, however, Kenny led a double life of sorts and was a pedophile who frequently acted on his urges. Kenny was a soft-spoken, timid, and generally withdrawn teenager he was often ridiculed and verbally abused by his work colleagues and was not known to have any friends at his place of work save for his manager, and did not understand many social cues including her visible interest in him. He was portrayed by Alex Lawther, who is known also for portraying James in The End of the F***ing World. The two set out on a disturbing and bizarre trek across suburbia, carrying out their tormentors’ demands in order to keep their darkest secrets from getting exposed. He is a 19-year-old who is blackmailed by an anonymous group of cybercriminals, forcing him into a shaky alliance with another blackmail victim.
Kenny is the villainous protagonist of “Shut Up and Dance”, episode 3 of the third season of Black Mirror. ~ Kenny, trying to rationalize his crimes to Hector prior to carrying out the bank robbery.
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