With a show like black mirror, It seems appropriate to say that we have good news and bad news: the dystopian sci-fi show, which often begins with utopian promises before delving into darkness, returns with some exciting news for fans and some bad news for fans as well.
Let's start with the bad news: the return of black mirror The seventh season, originally scheduled for late 2024, is now scheduled for 2025, which means we finally have a fixed date to wait for Netflix's best series to air.
*clicks demerit button*
The good news: among the six episodes that will reach the best streaming service, there are black mirrorThe first sequel. A follow-up to the excellent USS Callister episode from season four (more commonly known as the Star Trek parody), starring Jessie Plemons.
*gives the program a million merits*
This is what we know so far.
What to expect from Black Mirror season 7
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the USS Callister sequel will be one of the six episodes that make up the seventh season. USS Callister was the first episode of the fourth season, which certainly wasn't one of Black Mirror's best episodes, but it still stands out as one of the most liked with a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
In the upcoming sequel, it appears that Jessie Plemons' character, reclusive programmer Robert Daly, no longer exists. “Robert Daly is dead, but for the crew of the USS Callister, his troubles are just beginning,” says Netflix. The crew ship is the setting for a massively multiplayer online game in which the DNA of real people is used to create their in-game clones; I'm not going to put any spoilers here, but this is Black Mirror, so of course things don't go well.
Netflix is in provocative mode for now. Posting on X/Twitter (see below), he simply said that there are “six new stories, but one seems a little familiar.” black mirror returns in 2025.”
Six new stories, but one seems a little familiar. Black Mirror returns in 2025. pic.twitter.com/uJmpxEhZH4March 14, 2024
The sixth season of black mirror It attracted mixed reviews throughout its career. Some episodes were praised as instant classics, while others were accused of being built around tired genre tropes. That's reflected in its Rotten Tomatoes scores: 94% for Joan is Awful, 87% for Loch Henry, 81% for Beyond The Sea, a comparatively terrible 60% for Mazey Day, and a triumphant finale with the 100%-rated Demon 79. . Digital Spy Editor David Opie He was not shy about criticizing the low-scoring Mazey Day, stating that it was one of the worst episodes in the show's entire history, although he did say that Demon 79 was one of his all-time favorites.
I remember another program here: Tales of the unexpectedthe British series that aired from 1979 to 1988, which spawned a short-lived American equivalent, Exit that black mirror It has often been compared. What began as a solo Roald Dahl vehicle expanded to include other writers (Dahl himself left the show after the third series) over its nine seasons, and while fondly remembered, it was also hugely variable in terms of quality. Even the legendary episode Lambs to the Slaughter, which used a now-famous clever device so a character could literally get away with murder, has strange pacing and structure.
It turns out that making twisted, dystopian fiction gets harder the longer you do it, so it'll be interesting to see if black mirrorSeason 7 is more Demon 79 than Mazey Day.
seventh season of black mirror will air on Netflix in 2025.
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