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Post by CT on Jul 11, 2012 16:40:17 GMT -5
Wow I just watched one of the craziest tv shows I've ever seen: It's a three part mini-series with a different story and cast for each episode. I've only watched the first one but it had an insane plot. When a member of the Royal Family is kidnapped, the kidnapper demands that the prime minister have sex with a pig on live television. He then does everything in his power to prevent it as the same-day deadline nears. I highly recommend it. I'll report back on the later episodes once I watch them. It hasn't aired in the U.S. and isn't on dvd to my knowledge so I had to download it.
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Post by CT on Jul 12, 2012 0:00:11 GMT -5
The second episode was even better. It took place in the future instead of the present like the first one. Here's the synopsis:
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 exercise bikes, arranged in 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 that people can customise with clothes, for a fee of merits. Everyday activities are constantly interrupted by advertisements that cannot be skipped or ignored without financial penalty. Obese people are considered to be second-class citizens, and work either as cleaners around the machines (where they receive verbal abuse) or are humiliated on game shows.
Bingham "Bing" Madsen is a citizen of the facility who has inherited over 15,000,000 merits and has the luxury of skipping advertisements. In the toilet he overhears Abi, whose voice he finds beautiful, singing a song from before the facility. He encourages her to enter into the X-Factor style game show Hot Shots, which offers a chance for people to get out of the slave-like world around them. Abi however does not wish to do this as she feels the potential embarrassment is not worth the price of entry, believed to be 12 Million Merits but really, 15 million merits. Bing, with nothing else he feels worth buying, buys the entry and gifts it to her after she reluctantly decides to compete.
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Post by GP on Jul 12, 2012 10:23:46 GMT -5
Charlie Brooker has just been contracted to write three more Black Mirrors for Channel 4. Brooker is a very entertaining TV critic and writer. If you haven't seen it you should also check out his first effort for TV Dead Set, a satirical zombie horror set in the Big Brother house, and also a sitcom he co-wrote with Chris Morris a few years ago called Nathan Barley. Best comedy show since Spaced but criminally underrated.
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Post by CT on Jul 12, 2012 10:55:22 GMT -5
Nice, glad to hear there will be more. And I'll have to check out Dead Set and Nathan Barley, thanks for the tip GP.
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