Netflix announced that “Black Mirror’ will return in June. The sixth season may make viewers feel like we’re getting closer to a dystopian, tech-infused future.
Netflix released the first episode along with an announcement. teaser for season 6, featuring a space station in orbit, a haunting smiley face emoji that appears throughout the video — including on a smartwatch — and, of course, lots of gore and violence.
The cast of the mind altering series will include Aaron Paul Michael Cera Salma Hayek Rob Delaney Himesh Patel Annie Murphy Rory Culkin Zazie Beetz and other actors.
Charlie Brooker is the creator of the hit show “Black Mirror” and he says fans should prepare for the unexpected, as this season looks to be the most unpredictable ever.
“Partly as a challenge, and partly to keep things fresh for both me and the viewer, I began this season by deliberately upending some of my own core assumptions about what to expect,” Brooker told Tudum, Netflix’s companion website.
“Consequently, this time, alongside some of the more familiar Black Mirror tropes, we’ve also got a few new elements, including some I’ve previously sworn blind the show would never do, to stretch the parameters of what ‘a Black Mirror episode’ even is. The stories are all still tonally Black Mirror through-and-through — but with some crazy swings and more variety than ever before,” he added.
If you’ve seen the show, then you know how crazy the plots can be. (Spoiler: The first season of the show shows a Prime Minister forced to be on live TV with an animal to save Princess. So, if Brooker says he’s going to push even further past those boundaries — you should probably believe him.
Each episode of this satirical ad hoc series comments on society in one way or another, including issues such as identity left, webcam tampering, weird robots dogs, and the toxic nature social media.
Some of us have even coined the phrase “living in a ‘Black Mirror’ episode” due to the brevity of strange events that have taken place in the past few years, including a businessman and reality TV star becoming the president of the United States, a global pandemic, Elon Musk taking over Twitter…just to name a few.
“I’ve thought Black Mirror should be a series that is constantly surprising and has stories that are totally different. Otherwise, what’s the point? It should be a series that can’t be easily defined and can keep reinventing itself… I can’t wait for people to binge their way through it all and hope they enjoy it — especially the bits they shouldn’t,” Brooker added.
After “Black Mirror’s” fifth season ended in 2019, the fans were left with a lot of waiting. Viewers who are used long waits have become accustomed to the wait for “Black Mirror” season 6. This four-year wait is the longest ever.
One explanation for the absence is an obvious one — COVID-19 flipped all our lives upside down in 2020, inevitability putting many productions on hold. The main reasons that “Black Mirror’s” production ceased is more complex.
Brooker and his creative partner Annabel Jones left the production company House of Tomorrow in January 2020. They then began a new venture. Broke and BonesNetflix invested. Endemol Shine Group owns House of Tomorrow. which Banijay Group acquired“Black Mirror”, which is still owned and operated by, was founded in.
Netflix has signed an agreement with Banijay for the show’s streaming to continue.
In May 2022 Variety Reporter season 6 Variety’s sources said that there would be more episodes in the new season than in the previous one. The publication reported that new episodes would also have longer running time and “be treated like individual films”.
After years of silence, the Twitter account dedicated exclusively for “Black Mirror” decided to reappear. The account tweeted What have we been missing? Two or three thousand fans go into a frenzy.
Netflix’s Twitter page responded Scientists still create robotics that slowly harnessing AI as if it were their first episode.
Brooker hinted a return when he tweeted an emoji with a smiling face.