"Fifteen Million Merits" is the second episode of the first series of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by the series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and
Bing (Daniel Kaluuya) awakens in his screen-covered cell every morning. A key inspiration for the episode was Konnie Huq's remark that her technology-obsessed husband, Charlie Brooker, would be content in a room which was covered in iPad screens.
British television presenter Konnie Huq co-wrote "Fifteen Million Merits" along with her husband, series creator Charlie Brooker.
Euros Lyn directed the episode
Daniel Kaluuya played Bing. His acting was praised by David Lewis of Cultbox, though David Sims of The A.V. Club found his character to be "perhaps too inscrutable".
Konnie Huq is a British television and radio presenter, screenwriter and children's author. She became the longest-serving female presenter of the British children's television programme Blue Peter, p
Fifteen Million Merits
…series of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by the series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and his wife Konnie Huq and directed by Euros Lyn. It first aired on Channel 4 on 11 December 2011; it was deliberately aired after The X Factor's series 8 finale. Set in an…
Huq administering a polio vaccine in Lucknow during a campaign to eradicate polio in India in 2009