“Black Mirror” just dropped a trailer for its seventh season, providing not only a closer look at the show’s six new episodes but also their release date on Netflix.
On April 10, Netflix will drop six installments of Charlie Brooker’s critically acclaimed and massively popular anthology series, and even though we already know that this season of “Black Mirror” would break tradition and return to a previous story — specifically, the beloved season 4 episode “U.S.S. Callister,” which stars Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, Billy Magnussen, and more — it’s still pretty exciting to see those stars reappear in this trailer. Not only that, but Will Poulter and Asim Chaudhry, who appeared in the standalone interactive special “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” also seem to show up in the trailer as their “Bandersnatch” characters Colin Ritman and Mohan Thakur. That means we may be getting another glimpse at that particular corner of the “Black Mirror” universe as well. (Audiences should prepare to lose a day or so if “Bandersnatch” is interactive once again, and I am speaking from experience here.) We knew season 7 of “Black Mirror” would revisit “U.S.S. Callister,” but this “Bandersnatch” revelation is, in fact, new news.
Beyond that, the trailer features new additions to the “Black Mirror” party like Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Emma Corrin, Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Chris O’Dowd, and Paul Giamatti, just to name a few. (Rashida Jones is technically a “new” addition as an actor, though she wrote the season 3 episode “Nosedive” alongside Michael Schur.) Beyond that, the trailer promises — what else? — a disturbing look at the technological landscape.