"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 his wife Konnie Huq and directed by Euros Lyn. It first aired on Channel 4 on 11 December 2011.
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".
Black Mirror is a British anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker. Its episodes explore a diversity of genres, but most are set in near-future dystopias with sci-fi technology—a type of speculative fiction. The series is inspired by The Twilight Zone and uses the themes of technology and media to comment on contemporary social issues. Most episodes are written by Brooker with heavy involvement by the executive producer Annabel Jones.
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Irma Thomas, whose 1964 song "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)" recurs throughout Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker wrote the majority of episodes.
Rory Kinnear starred as Prime Minister Michael Callow in the first episode, "The National Anthem".
