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My second one comes to Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 2

"15 Million Merits"

Summary:

It's satire of an entertainment show for the people in the future world. 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. Everyday activities are constantly interrupted by advertisements on the screen of their room that cannot be skipped or ignored without money. 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. There's a show called" Hot Shot", a talent show where you can get lots of money if you win. Abi, a girl with great singing voice tries to get away from her original life by it but ends up being a porn star. Another boy, Bing, who at first likes Abi a lot but is disappionted with Abi after that. He then tries to fight againt the whole system and also the Hot Shots show. Under thesimilar pressure as what Abi faced earlier, what can he do?

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqTyZoupc1w

Vocabulary:

gobbled it up 貪婪地抓住; 攫取

 be laced with 與...交織一起 

decency 合宜, 得體; 懂得情理

pay-per-view (電視節目)收費的

a gob of (黏質物)一塊

Brimming with 滿溢

ponder 仔細考慮; 衡量