Black Mirror - Every Episode Ranked From Worst To Best

12. Fifteen Million Merits

Black Mirror Fifeteen Million Merits
Channel 4

A riveting homage to Logan's Run with some of the series' best production design work to date, Fifteen Million Merits sees Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Brown Findlay deliver two of the show's strongest performances as a pair of low-class grunts who pedal endlessly on exercise bikes in order to earn "merits", this dystopian world's currency.

It's a disturbing metaphor for the way humans live their lives today, where entertainment is an opiate for the mundanity of the daily grind.

Brooker's critique of vapid reality TV doesn't have a scrap of subtlety - which might make it too much for some - and it's perhaps a little overlong, but Kaluuya in particular is fantastic, and the superb ending is the show at its most cynically, bleakly comedic.

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