‘Black Mirror’ season seven episode details have been revealed

The episode details for the new season of Black Mirror have been revealed today (March 31) by Netflix – check them out below.

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Earlier this month (March 13), Netflix took to social media to reveal the new trailer for season seven of the hit show, and it featured clips of previously confirmed actors Peter Capaldi, Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) and Rashida Jones.

The series will return on April 10 with six new episodes. The cast for the new season was shared last year and along with Capaldi, Giamatti and Jones, it also includes Billy Magnussen (Road House), Rosy McEwen (Blue Jean) and Cristin Milioti (The Penguin).

Now, details of the show’s episodes have been shared, including synopses and cast members, as well as the writers and directors of each episode.

The first episode, titled ‘Common People’, features Jones (Amanda), Chris O’Dowd (Mike), Tracee Ellis Ross (Gaynor) and has been written by Charlie Brooker and directed by Ally Pankiw.

A synopsis of the episode says: “When a medical emergency leaves schoolteacher Amanda fighting for her life, her desperate husband Mike signs her up for Rivermind, a high-tech system that will keep her alive – but at a cost…”

Episode two, called ‘Bête Noire’, features a larger cast including Siena Kelly (Maria), Rosy McEwen (Verity), Michael Workéyè (Kae), Ben Bailey Smith (Gabe), Amber Grappy (Yudy), Ravi Aujla (Mr Ditta), Elena Sanz (Camille) and Hanna Griffiths (Luisa).

Written by Brooker and directed by Toby Haynes, Netflix revealed the episode follows “confectionary whizz kid Maria” who “is unnerved when her former schoolmate Verity joins the company she works at — because there’s something altogether odd about Verity, something only Maria seems to notice.”

Episode three, ‘Hotel Reverie’, features Issa Rae (Brandy), Emma Corrin (Dorothy), Awkwafina (Kimmy) and Harriet Walter (Judith Keyworth) and has been written by Brooker and directed by Haolu Wang. “A high-tech, unusually immersive remake of a vintage British film sends Hollywood A-list star Brandy Friday into another dimension, where she must stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home,” the synopsis explains.

Episode four, ‘Plaything’, is described as being “in a near-future London” when “an eccentric murder suspect is linked to an unusual video game from the 1990s — a game populated by cute, evolving artificial lifeforms.” This episode, written again by Brooker and directed by David Slade, stars Capaldi (Cameron Walker 2034), Lewis Gribben (Cameron Walker 1994), James Nelson Joyce (DCI Kano), Michele Austin (Jen Minter), Will Poulter (Colin Ritman) and Asim Chaudhry (Mohan Thakur).

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Episode five, ‘Eulogy’, is about “An isolated man is introduced to a groundbreaking system that allows its users to literally step inside old photographs — stirring powerful emotions in the process,” and stars Paul Giamatti (Phillip) and Patsy Ferran (The Guide). This episode has been written by Brooker alongside Ella Road and is directed by Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor.

Episode six, ‘USS Callister: Into Infinity’, is a sequel to the classic season four sci-fi adventure opener, ‘USS Callister’. Starring Jesse Plemons as Robert Daly, that episode revolved around the reclusive programmer’s creation of a simulated reality in which he served as a Captain Kirk–like figure commanding a crew based on his real-life co-workers.

Now, a synopsis of the follow up says: “Robert Daly is dead, but now the crew of the USS Callister – led by Captain Nanette Cole – are stranded in an infinite virtual universe, fighting for survival against 30 million players.”

The episode stars Cristin Milioti (Nanette Cole), Jimmi Simpson (James Walton), Billy Magnussen (Karl Plowman), Osy Ikhile (Nate Packer), Milanka Brooks (Elena Tulaska), Paul G. Raymond (Kabir Dudani). It’s been directed by Toby Haynes and a team of writers made up of Brooker, Bisha K. Ali, William Bridges, and Bekka Bowling.

Check out the posters for each episode here:

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Common People
Bête Noire
Hotel Reverie
Plaything
Eulogy
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Meanwhile, Brooker previously spoke in an interview with Netflix about creating the new season last year.

“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 said.

“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.”

Black Mirror returned with its sixth season in 2023 after a four-year hiatus that featured an ensemble cast of Hollywood A-listers. While season six consisted of five episodes – each clocking in between 40 minutes and well over an hour – season five only ran for three episodes, each of which ran for over an hour.

The anthology show was originally launched on Channel 4, where it stayed for two seasons. Brooker recently revealed that the network effectively “cancelled” the series in his new book, Inside Black Mirror, which prompted the move to Netflix for its third season in 2016.

Since the show moved to Netflix, Black Mirror has featured stars such as Miley Cyrus, (whose house apparently burned down whilst filming her episode), Salma Hayek (who was worried her episode would get her “in trouble”), and Aaron Paul, amongst others.

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