Are you ready to look back in the eyes of your spectator? Black mirrorCreated and largely written by Charlie Brooker, he returns to Netflix with six new episodes of techno Trips in the form of twilight zone, fully integrated with our ability to trust technology until it eats us alive. Another star alignment or stars appears in season 7, including Issa Rae, Paul Giamatti, Emma Corrin, Peter Capaldi, Awkwafina and Tracee Ellis Ross. And in Black mirrorThe first episode of the sequel, Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson and Billy Magnussen go up on board the USS Callister. But first, let’s see what the characters of Rashida Jones and Chris O’Dowd are doing as they hire with a technology supplier for well -being in their coverage area …
Opening shot: The acquaintance of Tiascape of Black mirror It emerges, complete with its bewildered Shahatrtred glass sound effect. As a telephone alarm sounds, a couple of feet in bed. “Happy anniversary!”
The yeast: Amanda (Jones) and Mike (O’Dowd) are that married couple, and are demanding normal. They are enjoyed, they go to work (she is a teacher, he is welder); They have tried a leg for a baby, but it could have to be a “happy accident.”
You could say that Amanda and Mike are “common people”, which turns out to be the title of Black mirror 7S Astuta season first installment. Typically for this series, the daily life of the couple quickly becomes a nightmare scenario, and what is very afraid is how the “common” parts feel about how we live in our collective every day. Of course, in the primary school where he teaches, Amanda gives a lesson on the insects of autonomous drones “that spread the pollen in the way the organic bees used to.” An understanding Black mirror apart; The technological benefits without problems of the life of the near future. But when a medical emergency causes Mike and Amanda to look for the help of Riemmind, a mysterious medical care startup, they are soon trapped in a fatality loop that feels similar to trying to adjust their cable subscription, but with a climb. “All you have to do is update,” says Riamind Reper Gaynor (a brilliant Tracee Ellis Ross). “Only $ 800 for months …”
Gaynor Double and Triple Speak’s corporate chelin are being liquidated. “In addition, it is now standard, but it is still better than common!” And yet Amanda and Mike have no choice. His livelihood, his own survival, is at stake. It was even thought that the benefit offered by Riammind technology is undermined by how much it is needed, in “common people,” Amanda becomes a version walking and speaker of Google Adwords, as consumed, technology seems to be important. Black mirror and only saw themselves. What do we all do?
What programs will you remember? Five years after it premiered, maybe Alex Garland’s Coatings It feels even more timely. But Black mirror It can align with other stabs to the question of where technology is taking humanity, we know it or not. As Value of the West. O Brit Marling’s 2023 series A murder at the end of the worldWhere Black mirror The co -star Emma Corrin played a computer pirate against the murderous computer power.
OUR TOMA: Black mirror Returns! Just in time, and with another round of vibrations and technological amusements to calm the existential fears that have taken over the public square! Oh shit, wait, is the opposite. Now we feel worse. It is not the anthology series at a technical level, it is deeply carried out science fiction, with writing, address and casting of first level. But about what Black mirror He does it when he cuts us. When their stories show us results that could exist in the link of technology and individual existence. The series does not need to establish everything in a child of the imagined future space: it is more careful when technology is only tight versions of the obsessions of our own civilization with AI, LLMS and everything related to quantum computing. Black mirror Play fear in a line like “While you are in suspension mode, our servers are taking advantage of your spare process processing capabilities,” and we love it. YEAH! Great science fiction! But neither is a line far from something that any of us could recover in a form email, one with an option that we would barely noticed click. The “human battery” of The matrix He felt very far from fear in 1999. Black mirror He feels so closely in 2025.
Sex and skin: [Banner Ad Voice, during sex]: “Travel soft with the thirst for lubricating trap!“
Separation shot: Separation shots or Black mirror Episodes are typically shocking. With respect to spoilers, we will only say that the trend continues with season 7.
Star Star: Black mirror Delights in brass in tone. When a lizard lizard singer (Peter Hall) and his trembling keyboard companion (Flo Lawrence) appear on the anniversary destination of Amanda and Mike, made us think of Twin peaksand ask me what unbelief the rarity could happen.
The majority of the pilot line: A Stoner type type at Mike’s work is a superfan of a website called Dummies. “Desperate people continue here, and then the audience pays them to make dark shit.” How desperate should one be to, for example, get it out of a tooth and Mukbang?
Our call: TRANSMIT! Is Black mirror Warning about what will come or reflect what is already here? In any case, the Anthology series is putting us in a new twilight zone with its stories of season 7 of technology that become crazy and raw such as the timeless driver of the human condition.
Johnny loftus (@Johnnyloftus.bsky.social) is a Chicago -based writer. A veteran of the weekly alternative trenches, his work has also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, All Music Guide and The Village Voice.
