15 million merits S1E2

Open on our main character, Bing, sleeping in a blank room. Suddlen a

lovely farm scene surrounds him from all sides to a wake him up. As
soon as he sits up his ‘stat’s come up he dose some other cool electronic
shit. Also where ever he goes you see a number. Those are his Merits.
Bsically they live in an isolated world where they earn ‘merits’ by biking
and (which powers the city)

Suddenly a porn ad comes up and he goes to skip it, but skip it it will
cost him merits.

Bing goes to work and has to peddle all day. While he peddles he earns
merits and either watches the tv or rides on a track or something like
that

The guy next to Bing is this gross dude watching a show where they
humilate fat people. Because fat people are frowned apon in this society.
And are forced to be janitors, or participate on humiliating game shows
and stuff. Yet another reason for me to get in shape.

Bing goes into the cafeteria and gets food out of this cool machine. But it
doesn’t give him his apple, so this girl helps him get his apple. But Bing
isn’t interested in her and she’s sad. You can tell she super likes him
Gross now Dustin is watching porn while he bikes. I think that’s his
name. and then suddenly a janitor gets in his way and he starts yelling at
her. He calls her a ‘pie ape’ which is an interested term.

So far Bing has said about 2 words (are they paying him as an extra or
what).

He gets home from work and is playing a game in his room (remember
he’s completely surrounded by wall TVs)

Then an ad for Hot Shots comes on. It’s basically a fucked up version of
American Idol. Bing watches most of it, but then ignores it, costing him
Merrits. There are a lot of ads and it’s super fucking annoying.

Oh also, if he covers his eyes on a ad it’ll stop and wait for him to open
his eyes again because they only way you can skip an ad is by paying for
it.

Next day the same fucking fake rooster wakes him up

Pretty sure he’s only allowed in and out of his room at certain times too
btw

A pretty girl enters the elevetaor. Bing notices her (ABI that’s Abi)

Bing is peeing and hears a girl singing (zooey dechanel is that you?)
They make awkward small talk at the hand washin station and while
theyre talking a porn ad comes on and it is BAD TIMING

Literally almost an entire scene happens without talking. Just a bunch of

coy looks

Another Hot Shots ad comes on and Bing mutes it. He’s laying in bed
singing that song that Abi was singing

Next day I guess. Same apple situation, so this time Bing helps her.

He finally says “I like you’re singing the other day” and she rolls his eyes
and he’s like “okkkkkk I know I’m being cheesy, but it’s trueeeeeee”

After some more boring dialog Bing asks “have you ever thought of
audition for Hot Shot??” And she’s like “nah I can’t it’s like 12 million
merits. “And Bing said “I’ll give it to you” we find out that his brother
died and Bing inherited all his merits

She’s like “no no use your merits on this or that or this fancy thing or
that fancy thing” and he’s like “nahhh it’s just confetii I don’t want
something like that” and she said “nope” IDK he’s sort of pushy in my
opinion. Like it’s kind of creepy that he wants to do it, but also this is
something I’d do…..so idk maybe it’s not that werid
He goes to buy the ticket and finds out it’s 15 million merits instead of
12. He still buys the entry ticket. And h now has 9,407 merits left.

We go to Abi’s room and he sends her the invite. Then a porn ad comes
on and he skips it, losing 1,000 merits.

They both go to Hot Shots. She give him a cute little penguin origami she
made him (she makes one everyday with her apple wrapper). And then
he slowly takes her hand. IDK I love that shit.

They walk in and get sent into this room where everyone is warming up
(think horrible audition room). And they find out they have to just wait
in this room. Everyone is mean and rude. They call Abi right away to
‘preview her’ and the people get mad because she’s been there for a
week. Everyone eventually gets a chance, but you have no idea how
long.

She get’s previewed which is basically just like “oh I’d like to be as big as
Selma one day’ and that’s her bullet or whatever it’s called.

She has to drink something called “compliant’ before she goes on stage.
It’s basically like so she doesn’t complain or fight back on stage. I mean
It’s basically just drugging her.
She hands Bing the empty container and suddenly she’s on stage. There
are three human judges and a huge crowd, but they’re all avatars of
people watching and reacting at home.

It’s so horrifying to watch and she gets sexually harassed and it’s
horrible. Probably why she has to drink the date rape drug at the
beginging.

She sings. It’s long, she doesn’t get to finish but it’s still a long song. They
love her all the judges like her. But they don’t need any more singers
and that no one is realy listening to her sing they really just want to see
her naked. She’s then invited to be on the porn channel and be a prn
star. Bing is objecting and Abi is too high on that drink. They tell her
how they can change her life if she agrees she’ll never have to bike again

They’re basically like “it’s the porn channel or the bike” and then they
make her feel bad for thinking about it and basically being like “you’re
wasting everyones time and blah blah blah” so….she agrees

We go back into Bing’s room. He’s playing with the penguin and hides it
under his bed (he’s got something else under there but I couldn’t read
what it said )

Some time passes and there’s just like sad interviews of Abi playing
while Bing goes through his normal life. He’s down to 839 merrits. An ad
for Porn comes up, including Abi, but he doesn’t have enough merits to
skip it…so he just has to watch it….so sad

He can’t NOT see it because it surronds him. He closes his eyes and it
pauses until he opens his eyes again. So he has to fucking watch it.

He can’t leave his room during the commercial .

He slams himself into his screens and breaks it.

He finds a shard of glass and cuts into his hand to get the stamp from
Hot Shots off and sees the empty box of compliant (that’s what else was
under his matteress that I couldn’t tell before)

The next day he gets on his bike and he pedals. This guy peddles and
peddles and scrounges and doesn’t spend any money or anything.

He eats peoples left overs so he doesn’t have to buy food and he peddles
and peddles and peddles.

You can tell the passage of time because his hand stamp is fading (that
was a point in the hot shots part but forgot that it was important to
show the passing of time) it only lasts 2 months.

So time pases and he earns 15 million merits again.

He goes and buys an entry ticket for Hot Shots. Remember that shard of
glass from earlier?

Yeah he slips that shit into his waste band.

He goes through it all again and is the only person in the big room this
time. He just stands there while the room starts to fill up. This time with
dancers. That white haired girl from last time is there again.

They ask for an ‘ethnic one’ and takes Bing. Does his preview it’s just
“I’m an entertainer” dead pan of the screen.

They told him to drink the compliance, but using the empty from last
time he says he already did. So he goes onto the stage without it.

He says he’s going to do a ‘performance’ for them.

He starts to dance. People like it, then he pulls out the glass and holds it
to his neck. He threatens to kill himself if people don’t’ listen.

The judges don’t care, expect the girl one she says “I think we should let
him speak”
He goes into this whole rant about the system and how fucked up it is.
It’s great, you should watch it. Basically it’s all the things I think about
reality shows, but he says it in a nice British accent.

Hoenslty, it’s such a good speech you should watch it.

He finishes and everyone is silent.

The judges are like “Omg that’s the most heartfelt thing we’ve ever seen”
and he’s like ‘da fuck?” and the judge talks a lot and then says “I want to
hear you talk again. I want to offer you a spot on one of my chanells to
talk”and they’re like ‘beats the bike’

Jump forward to the bike room again. But this time Bing has a show on
the channel.

BTW did I mention that ABi is still on the porn channel.

And now Bing has sold out. He has a bigger house, and goes live twice a
week holding that shard of glass to his throat. He has a penguin statue in
his house to remind him of Abi.

He looks out onto a screen of forest (but it’s still just a simulation….)