“You can expect a mix of genres and styles,” Charlie Brooker said during Netflix’s annual Geeked Week festival in September. “We’ve got six episodes this time, and two of them are basically feature-length. Some of them are deeply unpleasant, some are quite funny, and some are emotional.”
Brooker tells Tudum that the new season is“a little bit OG Black Mirror.” He adds, “It’s back to basics in many ways. They’re all sci-fi stories — there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way. There’s definitely some disturbing content in it.”
One of the upcoming episodes will be a sequel to the now-classic season four premiere episode titled USS Callister, in which a video game programmer invents a simulated reality in which he is the captain of a starship, his colleagues form his crew, and the sci-fi adventures they undertake take a decidedly sinister turn.
“Fans of the show will recognize the cast of a certain spaceship from one of our episodes reappearing,” Brooker says. “We’ve done a sequel for the first time in Black Mirror history. Normally, I kill off all the characters at the end of an episode, [but] I kept some of ’em alive. I’m growing as a human.”
Black Mirror season seven will be available to stream on Netflix from Thursday, April 10.
Check out photos from season seven and the trailer below.