Black Mirror | 15 Million Merits | Channel 4

The second episode is a satire on entertainment shows and our insatiable thirst for distraction set in a sarcastic version of a future reality.

In this world, everyone is confined to a life of strange physical drudgery.

The only way to escape this life is to enter the 'Hot Shot' talent show and pray you can impress the judges.

Sunday | 9:30pm | Channel 4

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  Comedy

[moonsugar1]

Best thing on TV I've seen this year. I love Brooker's comedy work but this is the best drama he's done, over dead set and last weeks Black Mirror. I think alot of people would have missed what he was really getting at, but Bing was certainly talking for me when he gave that Fuck you speech. Its made all the more relevant by the fact that the winners of this years X-factor look like 4 pornstars from a lesbian gangbang.

Thank you Charlie, for putting something real on my Black Mirror.

[CaptainKaddywhak]

Saying this was like Fight Club is like saying that apples are like oranges. They both have anti-consumerist messages, but so do a lot of things. Hell, so did Wall-E. They are not really anything alike. Also, the 'contradictoy' ending was purposeful. We comodify everything today. And to get people to buy you have to keep upping the shock value, until you get a guy holding a piece of glass to his throat as a gimmick. Also, no one knows how to escape this capitalist life we lead anymore.

[Devin Zhang]

have you got the answer? I am looking for it too

[lysly]

Who sings the cover version of song "I have a dream"

at the beginning of the episode 15 million merits? please

[lysly]

I also want to know who sings this music!!!

[leon freeman]

yo, any available info?

[fitprotunes]

Is it wrong of me to want to watch the Wraith Babes video with Abi?

[Boleraam]

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