The wait is lastly over. The extremely anticipated Black Mirror season six is formally arriving within the coming weeks, and it’s in all probability protected to say that following our first take a look at the trailer it’s going to possible be one of many greatest Netflix exhibits this 12 months.
The trailer for the sixth season of everybody’s favourite dark-side-of-technology-series Black Mirror is now accessible, a day after the present’s Twitter account broke its four-year lengthy silence, and it’s all the things we hoped for, with an enormous new solid together with the likes of Breaking Dangerous’s Aaron Paul and Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz.
Netflix, which confirmed that the present would premier in June 2023, has promised that the most recent chapter within the satirical anthology sequence would be the most “unpredictable, unclassifiable and surprising but”.
Watch the trailer beneath:
When you’re questioning what the pictures of Aaron Paul trying misplaced in area are about or why Zazie Beetz appears to be again within the ’90s and wrestling with a dial-up web connection, then we’ve received you coated.
Though the trailer is just 87 seconds lengthy, there’s quite a bit to unpack from our first glimpse of the present. Trying on the totally different characters and settings, we predict there could possibly be as many as 10 episodes within the newest season – Variety (opens in new tab) had confirmed in Might that there can be extra feature-length episodes than season 5.
Right here’s what we may work out from the trailer of season six of Black Mirror and what we all know to date.
Black Mirror returns to area
One of the placing issues from the trailer is the star-studded solid. Within the opening moments of the trailer, we get a glimpse of a giant area station transferring via a starless cosmos.
The one different scene with an area setting, which is later proven within the trailer, reveals that the pictures are possible a part of an episode with Aaron Paul. It exhibits the Breaking Dangerous actor wandering via the spaceship alone.
For a present that has a behavior of sparking existential ideas over know-how’s unchecked exponential development, there haven’t been that many episodes set in area – there was solely ever one notable episode set in area, and that was the Star Trek riff ‘USS Callister’ from season 4.
Zazie Beetz episode options dial-up
The futuristic applied sciences featured all through Black Mirror, akin to importing an consciousness to a pc and superior social credit score programs ( you, China), are sometimes showcasing improvements that aren’t but accessible to us. Whereas there are exceptions to this, particularly digital actuality and deep fakes, there isn’t typically a concentrate on archaic tech.
That appears prefer it’s set to alter in season six, with the trailer revealing a favourite pet peeve from the ’90s: dial-up. For those who bear in mind having to unplug the cellphone line to have the ability to surf the online, it appears like we’re all going to be reminded of those (not so) fond recollections.
Within the trailer, we see Zazie Beetz opening up a laptop computer to attend for a dial-up web connection, giving us a throwback to the charms of its insistent ringing tone. Anticipate a somber tone for this episode judging from what the Joker and Bullet Practice actor advised The Guardian final 12 months.
“I wouldn’t say my character is having a number of enjoyable,” she mentioned. “However I feel there’s a extremely nice tongue-in-cheek darkish ingredient to it, [a] premonition sort of ingredient. The mirror reflecting again on us.”
Sneak peek of Salma Hayek
Black Mirror has achieved properly to draw the eye of Hollywood stars and the most recent chapter within the sequence appears set to function fairly just a few in comparison with earlier seasons. Among the many solid is Frida and From Nightfall until Daybreak actor Salma Hayek.
There’s not so much to unpack about what the actor’s episode will appear to be and even be about from the trailer. Just one quick scene is included from Salma Hayek’s episode and it cryptically has her saying “don’t do it”. Your guess might be pretty much as good as ours as to what that’s suggesting.
Followers of Schitt’s Creek and Russian Doll may also be happy to listen to that Annie Murphy shall be becoming a member of the season six solid. Scenes from the trailer present the actor strolling down what appears to be a marriage aisle dressed as a manic cheerleader waving pom pom in a single hand and a fog horn within the different.
A ‘surprisingly’ packed new season
One other main feature-length episode appears set to function Gangs of London and I Might Destroy You star Paapa Essiedu. The actor makes a dramatic look within the season six trailer, sporting a placing silver, feathered jacket. Whereas there are solely two very quick pictures from his episode, Paapa Essiedu’s wardrobe exudes showmanship with feverish disco aptitude.
Different stars which have been confirmed to function within the present embody Anjana Vasan, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin and Samuel Blenkin.
If the A-list solid surprises you, you’re not alone. The creator behind the present Charlie Brooker advised followers on the Netflix Tudum event (opens in new tab) that he even stunned himself whereas making it. “I’ve at all times felt that Black Mirror ought to function tales which might be fully distinct from each other, and preserve stunning folks – and myself – or else what’s the purpose? It needs to be a sequence that may’t be simply outlined, and may preserve reinventing itself,” he mentioned.
“Partly as a problem, and partly to maintain issues contemporary for each me and the viewer, I started this season by intentionally upending a few of my very own core assumptions about what to anticipate,” he added. “Consequently, this time, alongside among the extra acquainted Black Mirror tropes we’ve additionally received just a few new components, together with some I’ve beforehand sworn blind the present would by no means do, to stretch the parameters of what ‘a Black Mirror episode’ even is. The tales are all nonetheless tonally Black Mirror through-and-through — however with some loopy swings and extra selection than ever earlier than.”
