Welcome back, ‘Black Mirror’ we’ve missed you.
Yes, Charlie Brooker’s dystopian sci-fi will shortly be back on Netflix – its home since it made the controversial switch from Channel 4 in 2016 – and it has a new trailer to showcase its darkly comic wares. Here’s what we know so far about season 6 so far.
When will Black Mirror season 6 be streaming on Netflix?
It’s scheduled to land on the streaming in June – although there’s no specific date announced yet.
What will happen in season 6?
Details, as is customary, remain spare but we’re told to ‘expect the unexpected’ in a series that will be ‘the most unpredictable and unclassifiable yet’.
Last year, Variety reported that the new season would have more than the three episodes of season 5 and each would feel like their own standalone film, with higher production values than ever.
what have we missed?
— Black Mirror (@blackmirror) April 25, 2023
Who is appearing in Black Mirror season 6?
It’s a bumper cast – and then some. Appearing are – deep breath – Salma Hayek Pinault, Aaron Paul, ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Anjana Vasan, ‘Schitt's Creek’ actress Annie Murphy, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, ‘I May Destroy You’s Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin and Zazie Beetz. Among others many others…
what have we missed?
— Black Mirror (@blackmirror) April 25, 2023
What can we expect from season 6?
Speaking to Tudum.com, Brooker explained that his starting point for the new season involved ‘upending some of my own core assumptions about what to expect’.
‘Alongside some of the more familiar “Black Mirror” tropes, this time we’ve got a few new elements,’ he added, ‘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.’
Of course, there’d been some doubt over whether a sixth season would ever come, with Brooker admitting that the horrors of the pandemic had made the show a gamble. ‘At the moment, I don’t know what stomach there would be for stories about societies falling apart,’ he told Radio Times in 2020, ‘so I’m not working away on one of those. I’m sort of keen to revisit my comic skill set, so I’ve been writing scripts aimed at making myself laugh.’
Black Mirror season 6 will be streaming on Netflix in June.
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