![]() "I've always felt that Black Mirror should feature stories that are entirely distinct from one another, and keep surprising people - and myself - or else what’s the point? It should be a series that can’t be easily defined, and can keep reinventing itself,” he said.īasically, in typical Black Mirror fashion, expect the unexpected. Speaking to Netflix blog Tudum alongside the trailer launch, Brooker opened up on his approach to the new season. (Or is he? You never know with Black Mirror, do you.) Otherwise, we get glimpses at some of the other feature-length episodes included in this season's anthology - not least Paapa Essiedu looking fierce in an angelic silver jacket. The new trailer for Black Mirror season six isn't giving much away, but we do know that Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul will be seen in a space station, seemingly adrift, going by his panicked expression. The first trailer for Black Mirror season 6 sees Aaron Paul lost in space, seemingly ![]() Anjana Vasan stars alongside Paapa Essiedu, and is the only episode on the roster not solely written by Charlie Brooker, as former Ms. With its titular suggestion of hellish horror iconography and its latter-century setting, one can’t help but imagine this will be Black Mirror Peter Strickland-style (think: In Fabric, which about a dozen people saw but was very, very good). ![]() “Demon 79” takes place in northern England in ‘79, and centres on a meek sales assistant forced to commit terrible acts to prevent disaster. Last but not least, an episode returning to the home territory where a wee Black Mirror sucked its first teat. Danny Ramirez, the hot internet fav seen in the background of some shots in Top Gun: Maverick, also stars. From that sliver of synopsis alone, one should think it has all the makings of a frenetic thriller a la Uncut Gems. The most succinct description provided by EW is for the episode “Mazey Day”, which stars Joker's Zazie Beets as a troubled starlet hounded by the paps a la Marilyn Monroe, simultaneously dealing with the aftermath of a hit-and-run. In what seems a savvy blend of 2001: A Space Odyssey flavoured cabin fever and the ever-creeping future tech anxieties fuelling our present day nightmares, Paul and Josh Hartnett will be on a high-tech spaceship - check out that artificial gravity - in the aftermath of an “unspeakable tragedy.” Note that ‘69 was the year the United States landed a man on the moon, so hopefully in this timeline Neil Armstrong doesn't end up smeared on the lunar surface. The starriest and most tantalising episode, comes by way of the Aaron Paul-starring “Beyond the Sea”, which takes place an alternate 1969. Whether or not Herrold will wear fierce suits and bang lines a la her central turn in Industry is yet to be seen. Sam Miller's “Lock Henry” will feature Samuel Blenkin and Myha'la Herrold as a young American documentarian couple who travel to a, quote, “sleepy Scottish town,” to shoot a new nature film, only to discover a much more nefarious story extending back to the shadowy local past. It sounds a little bit like The Truman Show, only in this instance Murphy will presumably be audience to the mimicry of her doppelgänger, arguably more terrifying than being trapped inside a live-streamed fishbowl. In “Joan is Awful”, Annie Murphy's average woman will discover that a TV network is adapting her everyday life into a prestige series - herself portrayed in the show by Salma Hayek.
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