“I’ve always felt that Black Mirror should feature stories that are entirely distinct from one another, and keep surprising people — and myself — or else what’s the point? It should be a series that can’t be easily defined, and can keep reinventing itself,” the writer, creator and executive producer said.
So that's exactly what he did. Not every episode of the new season will be exactly what you expect, but that's the point.
“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,” he says. “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.”
That variety applies to both the episodes’ subject matter and to the long, long list of stars joining for Season 6. “Bringing it all to life we’ve got an incredible roster of disgustingly skillful, smart directors working with a cast of actors so talented they frankly have no right to exist,” Brooker says.
Among these talented actors are: Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Anjana Vasan (We Are Lady Parts), Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek), Auden Thornton (This Is Us), Ben Barnes (The Punisher), Clara Rugaard (The Rising) , Daniel Portman (Game of Thrones), Danny Ramirez (Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Author/Director David Shields, Himesh Patel (Station Eleven), John Hannah (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Josh Hartnett (Penny Dreadful), Kate Mara (House of Cards (2013), Michael Cera (Arrested Development), Monica Dolan (A Very English Scandal), Myha'la Herrold (Industry), Paapa Essiedu (The Capture), Rob Delaney (The Man Who Fell to Earth), Rory Culkin (Under the Banner of Heaven), Salma Hayek Pinault (30 Rock), Samuel Blenkin (The Witcher: Blood Origin), and Zazie Beetz (Atlanta).
So nothing special.
Written and created by Charlie Brooker, the series features Brooker, Jessica Rhoades, Annabel Jones and Bisha K. Ali as executive producers and comes from Brooker and Jones' production company Broke & Bones.
Season 6 of Black Mirror premieres in June. Says Brooker, “I can’t wait for people to binge their way through it all and hope they enjoy it — especially the bits they shouldn’t.”
Below are some more photos and the trailer for the sixth season of Black Mirror.
