"After the X Factor final", bloody BRILLIANT!

"After The X Factor final" lol

The fact that they used a song that's commonly used in the X-Factor, the way they used text in the same was as BGT/X factor and that they mentioned that it's on AFTER the X factor final is fucking GENIUS

I love the little sarcastic jab at the end "After the X Factor final". It sounds like narrator is spitting those words.

it's beautiful that that was on after x factor

This was aired after the X Factor final? Effing brilliant.

Shit, they decided to air THAT straight after that year's X Factor final? Best scheduling ever. And holy fuck, what an incredible piece of TV "15 Million Merits" was. Unbelievably tense.

"After the X Factor final" LMFAO! That was too good 😂😂

This was great. It takes 1984, We, and Brave New World, lines them up, and chucks an X-box at them. I love all three of those books (which this episode was clearly derrived from), but the episode updated them in a severely needed way. Daniel Kaluuya plays an amazing Winston Smith/D-503/Bernard Marx.

Watched this whole episode mesmerised, without realising the lead actors were Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Findlay, even though I've seen them both before (in Skins and Downton Abbey respectively). Sign that they're great actors as I saw the characters and not the 'real' people!

You could say he... Got Out.

If it wasn't exactly what is going on, one could swear that we would never let things get this bad. Great show. Can't wait to see the last one.

After the x factor final WAIT

Big Brother meets Cube meets The X Factor. Best way I can describe it. lol

@L4r00n Actually mate the irony was it aired straight after the X factor final....

My understanding of this is: people are forced to spend their lives living in tiny boxes with tv screens for walls, riding exercise bikes which in turn power said tv screens, and the only way to escape is to take part in one of the talent shows which is likewise broadcast to others watching (and powering) the screens. Sounds... absolutely brilliant! Kind of reminds me of the season finale of the first new series of dr who...

"After the X-Factor Final" HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Is it wrong of me to want to watch the Wraith Babes video with Abi?

can't wait. can't wait. CAN'T WAIT!

Excellent!

Best thing on TV I've seen this year. I love Brooker's comedy work but this is the best drama he's done, over dead set and last weeks Black Mirror. I think alot of people would have missed what he was really getting at, but Bing was certainly talking for me when he gave that Fuck you speech. Its made all the more relevant by the fact that the winners of this years X-factor look like 4 pornstars from a lesbian gangbang. Thank you Charlie, for putting something real on my Black Mirror.

Who sings the cover version of song "I have a dream" at the beginning of the episode 15 million merits? please

This was simply amazing!

best episode tbh

Does anybody know the piano bit on this?

I love thes music... What Name is the music?

Putting a contemporary Reality show into the future, incorproate the power of technology - some very creative ideas! Love it!

como se llama la cancion q canta la chica ?

can someone tell me who sang the cover version of' i have a dream on' this ? please??

One of the most powerful things ive ever seen

que cancion canta abi? :c

yo, any available info?

This Episode got me a idea

the first one was amazing, bizzare but it had me hooked.

the song featured in this episode is by Irma Thomas - Anyone Who Knows What Love Is ( Will Understand)

Who sings 'I have a dream' in this show? I know its an abba song but I was wondering if the actual cover is available anywhere, or who it is?

Was brilliant

what was the song Abi was singing ? it was being sung over the credits and it was amazing

Brooker's creations have helped fund my sanity over the years. Now I find this tasty morsel... and it is so very delicious.

have you got the answer? I am looking for it too

Not yet :(

@moonsugar1 thats an amazing rant, do you mind if I steal a bit of it for my daily fb rant. don't know you or else i would quote

What a dank meme.

People watching from their ISOLATED ROOMS, so eerily relevant, virtual online audience....

this is snoutrageous!

@TheLegoAgents3 why?

this is the most insane fucked up series I've seen

@ArrowInTheKnee93 It is now.

@TwisterCabaret Yep. They also spend "merits" for their screens to be turned off

Press 9.

trivia hq brought me here

@MrGWiggles The episodes tell us the extent on what technology can do and what it does to the people around us its an interesting series so far and gradually looks to get better and better.

Wake up, fellow plebs. This is our future.

@VincentBrooke1 Nail on the head, thats EXACTLY what I was thinking during every commercial break!!!

@vanillalatteblended thats bitter sweet

Nice bit of Battle Royal music in there.

I also want to know who sings this music!!!

Yeah. I'd like a clip of just that.

idk if I should continue to ep 3

Oh hey, looks like Black Mirror designed the XBONE before Microsoft did.

@moonsugar1 even if it wouldn't have been straight after the X-Factor, it would still be ironic to be shown on a television network that also sends stuff like x-factor, in my opinion. Of course that it aired straight after the X-Factor final made me crack up even more in this particular situation.

tea leaf!!!

Looks brilliant! Finally something that takes the piss out of all these shitty talent shows. Nice work Charlie!

Spoils the episode so much

@TehGhoul WOOSH! That was the sound of you missing the point.

Why does nobody realize the irony of this being shown in television

Ace

this episode shows an ideal way to keep criminals distracted away from society and somewhat useful.

I'm going to get flack for this and I know this came first but I thought it was pretty Hunger Games-esque (the movie version at least).

I will watch with all the lights off and volume waaay up.

@L4r00n Because it's not ironic. The idea isn't that television is terrible. The idea is that drivel that we use to distract us is terrible. For example, the fact that reading Sweet Valley and Enid Blynton is more likely to fry intelligent perceptions than give them is no reason not to read Wuthering Heights, or anything else by the Bronte sisters; the fact that something out of a certain group is shite doesn't mean all of it is. The program was showing us, our phones, our youtube vids etc.

@motmot999 it's snoutrageous

battle royale

the girl says yes because she had that drink of cuppliance before she went. the guy said yes because it was either that or go back to nothing im guessing, which is very ironic he's kind of selling his beliefs but it goes to show how fallible we all are

That looks like dule hill

@derdriui it's not about saying something is shit so all of it is. The whole movie is about a society where the deepest hopes and dreams are just instrumentalized by a giant powerful Television Network. So while I like this a lot, some people will watch it and find it unsetteling but will use it just for the fulfilment of their needs to revolt. But the real irony in this is, that people mitght find the movie fantastic but won't change. And that's what the movie is about, imo.

HAHAHA xD OH the irony!!

It needs more of [press 7 repeatedly].

X factor on 4? Shouldn't it be on ITV on a Saturday Night

So ? You have an answer ? I like know me too ! ^^ (sorry, i'm very bad in english !)

@warriorfightsforcake Verdi:Requiem, Dies Irae

Not understanding the point, A herp derp derp?

@lelo04 Fucking legend, thanks.

/watch?v=8abNdz3Mmi4 - is this what you were looking for, Sir ?

Waaaaay too on-the-nose and preachy, even for Brooker's standards (even if he did make it like this intentionally) but the ending twist definitely saves it.

OINK OINK CALLOW

Needs more pig...

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