“Black Mirror” Creator Charlie Brooker on Remaking Reality

Charlie Brooker is known for many things, and depending on whom you ask, you might get a different answer. In England, where Brooker was born, you may hear about cult comedies The 11 O’Clock Show, Brass Eye, or Nathan Barley, which he wrote, or maybe Newswipe, where he satirizes current events, or the fictionalized reality show Dead Set about zombies attacking the Big Brother house.

Paul Giamatti on Finding Redemption in the Most Human “Black Mirror” Season 7 Episode

Seven seasons in, Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror still gets under your skin. Usually, the load is heavy and dark, with characters’ lives driven to unambiguously worse places by technology we don’t yet have, but it feels like it may come frighteningly soon. But there’s one episode in this most recent season, Eulogy, starring Paul Giamatti, that stays in your mind for its emotional rewiring of one lonely man’s core memories.

Building the First “Black Mirror” Sequel: How Production Designer Miranda Jones Upgraded the USS Callister Universe

Back in Season 4 of Black Mirror, an enthusiastic programmer, Nanette (Cristin Milioti), gets trapped in a virtual-reality game by its creator and her boss, Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons). Shy and self-minimizing in real life, Nanette’s in-game clone is creative and confident enough to lead the rest of her colleagues, also trapped as crew by Daly on the starship USS Callister, out through a wormhole. Black Mirror picks up the thread with a sequel in Season 7,

New “Black Mirror” Season 7 Trailer Reveals Episode Details Ahead of Series Return on April 10

We know about as much information on Black Mirror season 7 as we’ll get before one of the great sci-fi series of all time returns to Netflix on April 10.

A new trailer includes more details about Charlie Brooker‘s unnervingly prescient anthology series’ return, including the titles of all six episodes, the synopsis, cast, run time, and credits for each episode. Season 7 also boasts, for the first time in the series’

“Black Mirror” Reveals Cryptic Teaser & Season 7 Cast, Including Issa Rae, Cristin Milioti, Paul Giamatti, and Awkwafina

The season 7 cast for Netflix’s sensational, eerily predictive Black Mirror has been revealed, and it’s a stellar group. It also includes, new for the series, some returning stars for a sequel to a beloved episode.

The full cast is comprised of Issa Rae (Barbie, Insecure), Emma Corrin (Deadpool & Wolverine), Cristin Milioti (The Penguin), Awkwafina (Jackpot),

“Black Mirror” Season 7 Teaser Reveals Return of Fan-Favorite Storyline

Not only is Black Mirror returning to Netflix for season 7, but one of the sci-fi anthology’s most beloved storylines is returning, too. A new teaser released by Netflix reveals this juicy detail about the upcoming season.

It looks like the crew—well, the surviving crew—from the season four premiere episode USS Callister are reporting for duty. Among the six new episodes that will arrive on Netflix in 2025 are a follow-up to the Star Trek parody that enraptured fans.

Netflix Reveals “Black Mirror” Season 6 Teaser With Salma Hayek, Zazie Beetz & More

It’s now a tired joke that the world has become a Black Mirror episode, which made it almost redundant for series creator Charlie Brooker and his talented team to continue cranking out seasons laced with tech-dystopian vibes and gimlet-eyed critiques of the human animal. Well, thankfully, the sixth season is not only happening; we now have our first look, revealing a peek at how the Black Mirror team has absorbed our increasingly Black Mirror-like reality.

“Black Mirror” Season 6 Cast: Zazie Beetz, Aaron Paul, Josh Hartnett, Paapa Essiedu, Kata Mara & More

One of the most influential and eerily prescient sci-fi series returns at last and is doing so with a stellar cast.

Variety has the scoop that series creator Charlie Brooker has found at least some of his cast for Black Mirror season 6, and it’s a doozy. The beloved anthology series returns to Netflix with the likes of Zazie Beetz, Aaron Paul, Paapa Essiedu, Kate Mara, Josh Hartnett,

“Black Mirror” Season 6 Officially Happening

One of the most common jokes of the last, oh, five or so years has been that real life has become an episode of Black Mirror. The peerless series, created by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, depicts a future world in which technology has run amok, the worst people on the planet seem to amass the most power, and the very things we rely on to escape our relentless and terrifying reality end up swallowing us whole.

Three new Black Mirror Trailers Tease Season 5

Black Mirror is back. Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones‘ techno fever dream of a series is returning with a truncated—but hotly anticipated—three-episode season. Three new trailers for each episode gives us a tiny bit more information, yet, we still really don’t know much about what these stories will fully explore. We just know they’ll likely make us feel paranoid and freaked out, which is precisely what we want from a fresh Black Mirror installment.

Put up Your Dukes for Black Mirror‘s Season 5 Trailer

One of the best shows on TV is back. Black Mirror has released the first trailer for season 5, and it’s as cryptic and unsettling as you’d expect. It’s not a stretch to say that Black Mirror has been one of the most consistently excellent, boundary-pushing series on television since it first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom back in 2011. Since moving to its new home at Netflix,

The Bespoke Technology That Made Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Possible

Sugar puffs or frosties? Yell at dad or pour tea all over a keyboard? By now, the audience choices and subsequent on-screen fallout possibilities in Netflix’s first interactive film for adults, Bandersnatch, have been well documented across the web. Home-made flow charts painstakingly illustrate the complexity of 19-year-old video game creator Stefan’s journey as he tries to develop an interactive computer game in 1984, navigating relationships with his irritating father,

Black Mirror May Let you Choose Your Own Ending

If there were a single television series you could pick to attempt a “choose your own ending” gambit, we can’t think of a better option than Black Mirror. Charlie Booker‘s consistently brilliant, often terrifying sci-fi techno-horror series has delivered some of the most shocking endings on TV in the last four years; offering viewers a chance to steer a character out of (or deeper into) one of Black Mirror‘s nightmares has a ton of potential.

Black Mirror’s VFX Supervisor on the Haunting Episode “USS Callister”

Each episode of Black Mirror is designed to be memorable in its own way, but none so far have spun what appears at first to be a mere goofy period romp into an emotionally complex depiction of covert malevolence quite like the feature-length opener of the show’s fourth season, USS Callister. Brilliant but overlooked Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons, once the beloved Landry of Friday Night Lights) is the creator behind an online gaming world for which his savvier,

It’s a Battle of the Greats as Science Fiction’s Biggest Awards Announce Finalists

The Hugo Awards have announced their finalists, and it looks like many of our favorites have made the cut. As science fiction’s most prestigious honor, the Hugo Awards are trademarked by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) who hosts the annual World Science Fiction Convention or “Worldcon.” This year the final list of nominees is packed with excellent films, television series and books. Blade Runner 2049, Get Out and The Shape of Water—all three films that walked away with at least one Oscar—are among the names vying for Best Dramatic Presentation,

Brace Yourself, There’s More Black Mirror to Come

There’s more technological terror to come. Netflix has renewed Black Mirror for a fifth season.

In fairness, the sci-fi anthology series from Charlie Booker and Annabel Jones isn’t always scary. There was the adorable ‘Hang the DJ last season that renewed our faith in dating apps, and the lovely Emmy winning San Junipero restored our faith in aging. Sort of. The point is it was lovely and awesome.

Black Mirror Season 4 Finally Has a Release Date—Just in Time for New Year’s Eve

A spectacular montage of all the creepy, crazy, and beautiful things we’ll see this season on Black Mirror culminated in the long awaited announcement of season four’s release date. You have time to finish your holiday shopping and spend some time with your family before devoting your life to binge watching the six new episodes. Cancel those New Year plans, however. Black Mirror season 4 begins streaming December 29—what a way to end a year that seemed itself one long Black Mirror episode.

The Final Black Mirror Season 4 Teaser Pays Homage to Star Trek

And there we have it. Netflix has released teasers for all six of the announced season 4 Black Mirror episodes. Today the series bestowed upon us the first look at their Star Trek homage, “U.S.S. Callister.”

The original Star Trek series premiered in the 1960s and imagined a future with enhanced weaponry, communication, and commingling intergalactic species, all thanks to unfettered space travel. Led by the infallible Captain Kirk,

Technology Pairs Soulmates in the Black Mirror Trailer for ‘Hang the DJ’

Love them or leave them, online dating apps have changed the way people experience relationships. The new Black Mirror trailer pushes the digital matchmaking system to the extreme. ‘Hang the DJ’ is the fourth episode of season 4 to receive a trailer, and it introduces a wacky new computer system that controls the characters’ dating lives.

Georgina Campbell and Joe Cole play a couple who sit down to their first date.

Black Mirror‘s ‘Black Museum’ Trailer is Chilling and Mysterious

The latest Black Mirror trailer may preview the goriest episode yet. Proprietor Rolo Haynes’ welcomes a tourist to his “World Famous” Black Museum that has a blood splatter logo in the shape of a screaming head. It appears that the attractions are a collection of the show’s most violent and disturbing technologies. The owner invites guests to “inflict pain on yourself but not terror.” Rolo and I have very different definitions of fun.