Polygon.com / 13.03.25

Black Mirror returns in April with a sequel to one of its most-discussed episodes

Netflix announced on Thursday that Charlie Brookers conversation-starting bleak-future anthology series Black Mirror will return for a seventh season on April 10. The announcement came with a gallery of season images and a preview trailer for the six-episode season, which includes prominent appearances from Paul Giamatti, Peter Capaldi, Awkwafina, and others, plus a Black Mirror first: an entire sequel episode, taking up the story of the season 4 episode USS Callister. Brooker had previously stated at a Netflix press event that two of this seasons episodes are basically feature length, and that the tone of the season returns to Black Mirrors original blend of horror and dark futurism: Its back to basics in many ways. Theyre all sci-fi stories theres definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way. Theres definitely some disturbing content in it. Past seasons of Black Mirror (and the feature-length choose-your-own-story interactive special Black ...
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