Prepare to throw out your phones and smash your laptops, because Black Mirror is returning to screens for a seventh season, with a star-studded cast just revealed by Netflix.
News of the upcoming season was shared on Friday on social media (which is watching us at all times, FYI) via a cryptic promotional video, with some of the show’s new castmates glitching on the screen.
The new, six-episode instalment of the sci-fi anthology will premiere sometime in 2025, and we’ll be treated not only to the kind of commentary that makes me want to bury all of my devices including my Tamagotchi, but also a swathe of both new and returning castmates.
Leading the new additions to the cast of Black Mirror is The Farewell actress Awkwafina, as well The Crown and Deadpool & Wolverine star Emma Corrin. They’ll be joined by Oscar-nominee Paul Giamatti, Barbie’s Issa Rae, and Tracee Ellis Ross of Black-Ish fame.
Parks and Recreation alum Rashida Jones — who wrote the season three Black Mirror episode “Nosedive” — will also appear in front of the camera for the new season, alongside Bridesmaids’ Chris O’Dowd, and Peter Capaldi, Patsy Ferran and Lewis Gribben.
The new season seven cast is rounded out by Siena Kelly, Rosy McEwen, Paul G. Raymond and Harriet Walter, but we’ll also see some familiar faces.
It has been confirmed that the upcoming season will include Black Mirror’s first-ever sequel episode — a follow-up to season four’s harrowing “U.S.S. Callister” — so many of the castmates from that episode will return for the seventh season.
You remember the one where Kirsten Dunst’s boyfriend (Jesse Plemons, for those unaware of Hollywood’s most unsung power couple) launches an attack of the nerds-type retribution in the style of Star Trek?
Yeah, it’s getting an updated season seven episode with Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Jimmy Simpson, Milanka Brooks and Osy Ikhile reprising their roles as tech workers trapped in a comic book fan’s wet dream.
While details around specific episodes and characters remain under wraps, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has teased a little about what we should expect when the horrors of technology rear their head next year.
“We’re doing some things we’ve not done before”, Brooker told Deadline in August.
“People can expect quite a lot of emotion and, hopefully, a good mix of chills, but this time around, the episodes are all, in a way, like OG Black Mirror.”
In the meantime, I’m going to go check whether the Tamagotchi I buried after season six is still alive… or whether it has become sentient and will eat me alive.
Wait, should I pitch that to Netflix?
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