Cult anthology series, Black Mirror, is back for its seventh season with another six episodes and, for the first time, a sequel. Pippa Considine reports
Black Mirror has now reached the ripe old age of 14 with 34, effectively standalone, episodes under its belt.
And despite the myriad dystopian worlds the series has travelled to, one thing doesn’t change. “It’s important that each episode is idiosyncratic and has its own personality and its own feel and its own heart, while there is one flavour running throughout the whole,” says creator Charlie Brooker. Each episode is “completely separate and almost hermetically sealed from the rest.”
Season seven has followed hot on the heels of season six, which released in 2023. “It looks, from the outside world, like we took a little break,” says executive-producer Jessica Rhoades. “But Netflix commissioned season seven immediately after the launch of season six, and Charlie got writing. We went into production right after the writers strikes ended [in October 2023].”
Black Mirror was initially commissioned by Netflix executives in the US. For this season, they worked with the UK team, including Steve Searle and Anna Ferguson, working to Anne Mensah, Netflix vp of content in the UK. With Black Mirror now a UK institution, Rhoades describes how the team were “advocates and lovers of the series.” Brooker adds: “They care about what the show is, and they care about the stories.”
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