Prior to his audition, Bing hides the shard of glass in his pants and stands patiently in the waiting room every day without expression, until he is called in due to the judges wanting an 'ethnic' contestant. He hides them both under his bed, and spends the next several months aggressively earning Merits on his bike, as well as being extremely frugal with what he purchases, even occasionally resorting to theft, in order to re-earn 15,000,000 more Merits and buy another Hot Shots ticket for himself. Bing eyes one of the larger pieces, and the empty Cuppliance container Abi drank earlier, and gets an idea. Bing tries to use the water closet, but since he cannot leave his cell until the ad finishes, he finally loses his temper and proceeds to bash one of the screens until the glass shatters in shards. ![]() Lacking enough Merits to skip the ad, Bing tries to look away, but the automated systems emit an increasingly high pitched and louder beeping noise that only stops when he opens his eyes. One day, while playing a game in his cell, an advert for a new episode of WraithBabes featuring Abi appears. Bing attempts to intervene but is dragged away and, after goading from the judges and crowd, Abi, who has been drugged by the Cuppliance, reluctantly agrees despite Bing protesting offstage.īing returns to his cell without Abi and with very few Merits left, where he continues his daily routine listlessly. Judge Wraith casually remarks that her unease can be taken care of, and offers her the chance to be a pornstar on WraithBabes. He accompanies a nervous Abi to the audition, where she is required to drink a beverage called "Cuppliance" that is claimed to help settle her nerves.Īlthough Abi's rendition of "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is" impresses the three judges, Hope, Charity, and Wraith (Rupert Everett, Julia Davis, Ashley Thomas) and the crowd, they state they have no more room for a merely "Above Average Singer". After some consideration he decides to follow through with the purchase, which costs him almost all of his Merits. Bing manages to persuade Abi and, feeling there is nothing "real" worth spending his Merits on, purchases the ticket for her, only to realize the price has changed from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 Merits. On another occasion, he overhears Abi singing in the toilet and encourages her to enter an X-Factor style game show called Hot Shots, where winners get to move into more lavish spaces and out of the slave-like world around them, no longer having to grind on a bike for Merits. He notices newcomer Abi Khan (Jessica Brown Findlay) while exercising one day, and develops feelings for her. Luxury of skipping advertisements as often as he wants. ![]() Has inherited 12,000,000 Merits from his dead brother, and has the minor ![]() Overweight people are second-class citizens who either work as cleaners around the bikes (where they are verbally abused) or are humiliated on game shows which others pay to watch. ![]() These can be used to buy food, virtual accessories for their Dopple, a virtual avatar, and to skip advertising that frequently interrupts everyday activities. They earn their living by riding on exercise bikes in order to power their surroundings, earning currency known as Merits. In this world, a society of people live in an enormous, enclosed space with contiguous video screens covering nearly every surface offering personalised entertainment. It was written by Charlie Brooker and Kanak Huq, and was released on December 11, 2011.Ī satire on entertainment shows and our insatiable thirst forĭistraction set in a dystopian version of a future reality. Fifteen Million Merits is the second episode of the first season.
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