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Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits (TV)

Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits (1x02)

2011

Euros Lyn

Daniel Kaluuya, Jessica Brown Findlay, Rupert Everett, Paul Popplewell ...

7.2

38,448

Sci-Fi. Drama. Thriller A satire on entertainment shows and our insatiable thirst for distraction set in a sarcastic version of a future reality. In this world, everyone must cycle on Bike machines (literally, "getting on their bikes", a common British idiom) within a facility of touchscreen cells in order to power their surroundings and generate currency for themselves called Merits. Everyone is dressed in a grey tracksuit and has a "doppel", a virtual avatar ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Sam Richards Telegraph	"These were all familiar tropes, but they were explored with style, savvy and lashings of acerbic humour. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Neela Debnath The Independent	"It was a great fable with a cynical conclusion."	POS
United Kingdom	Sam Wollaston The Guardian	"This is more artful. It's striking to look at and beautiful (...) Well, beautiful in a stifling, suffocating way that has you gasping for an open window, a plant, an emotion, something real."	POS

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