A new trailer for Charlie Brooker’s anthology series reveals the return of several characters ahead of the show’s April release date. Check out the Black Mirror season 7 trailer below.
Take a break from one increasingly alarming technological dystopia and check out the trailer for another. Black Mirror is returning to Netflix on 10th April 2025, and the new season still has some surprises in store…
Anyone look familiar?
The trailer seemingly confirms that at least two characters from some of the show’s most memorable episodes will be making a return – the first time the sci-fi anthology has returned to existing storylines in its history.
Cristin Milioti previously appeared as the protagonist of season 4’s flagship USS Callister episode – where she led a digital avatar revolt against a despotic computer programmer in his own Star Trek-style world. Netflix had previously confirmed one of season 7’s six episodes will act as a sequel to Callister.
Will Poulter, meanwhile, appeared in the show’s ambitious 2018 experiment in interactive storytelling, Bandersnatch, as a nasal, spiky-haired computer programmer called Colin. Quite how Brooker and co have constructed a sequel to an episode with multiple different endings (at least one of which, spoiler alert, results in Colin’s death) is an intriguing little puzzle – but then Black Mirror is usually at its best when it makes things difficult for itself.
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It’s not just pure nostalgia, though. The trailer also shows Paul Giamatti plugging his head into a nicotine patch, Rashida Jones having a funny turn in a classroom, and Peter Capaldi wearing an evil wig. All set to a slowed-down rendition of Dream A Little Dream Of Me, in case you hadn’t twigged something was very sinisterly wrong.
There’s also indication that the show will be experimenting with its visual style a bit, too. Emma Corrin is having a (presumably horrible) time in a black-and-white version of the 1920s, while the lighting of Lewis Gribben’s episode looks a little different to the Netflix house style we’re accustomed to (or maybe it’s the same, and we’re just spouting mad things on the internet – itself a very Black Mirror-y premise, no? Makes you think).
Whatever surprises the season has in store, colour us intrigued. Black Mirror season 7 arrives on Netflix on 10th April.
