Post by ÇŢ™ on Jul 11, 2012 20:12:12 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.
UPDATE: 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.
An Endemol press release describes the series as "a hybrid of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected which taps into our contemporary unease about our modern world", with the stories having a "techno-paranoia" feel.[2] Channel 4 describes the first episode as "a twisted parable for the Twitter age".
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.
UPDATE: 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.