‘Black Mirror’ season 7: release date, cast, and more

The trailer for "Black Mirror" season 7 teases not one, but two sequels to previous episodes.

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If we were wise, we'd chuck our phones, PCs, TVs, and gaming consoles into an incinerator — but then we wouldn't be able to watch Black Mirror season 7, so...

This month, Netflix dropped a new trailer for the latest season of Charlie Brooker's prescient and unnerving anthology series. (It's delivered so many bangers over the years that we couldn't help but rank our picks for the best Black Mirror episodes.)

Black Mirror season 7 is doing something the series has never done before, with its trailer teasing not just one, but two sequels to previous entries. So, when does Black Mirror return? And what actors will Brooker torture this season? Read on for everything we know about Black Mirror season 7.

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Black Mirror evokes anthology series like The Twilight Zone and Amazing Stories with speculative, offbeat tales that draw upon sci-fi, thriller, and horror tropes to satirize culture and interrogate moral and ethical quandaries. However, it distinguishes itself by focusing on modern technology, including the internet, social media, virtual reality, and the surveillance apparatus.

For example, one of Black Mirror's best episodes, season 3's Emmy-winning "San Junipero," stars Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a love story set within a virtual reality filled with mysteries.

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Netflix released a trailer for Black Mirror season 7 on March 13, 2025. Ardent fans of the anthology series have spent almost two years waiting for the next installment, with the previous season debuting on June 13, 2023.

On March 31, Netflix released an additional trailer offering more insight into the season's stories, including the episode titles.

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Brooker hasn't shared many specific details about Black Mirror season 7, but he's spoken about some of its broader themes during the past year.

In May 2024, for example, he told The Hollywood Reporter that the season's six new episodes offer "a real mix of things" and "really exciting castings" (more on those below). He also teased "something really cool... that we've never done before," which is, of course, frustratingly vague, but also interesting for fans who feel the series has grown a bit stale.

Brooker offered a bit more detail last August in a chat with Deadline. "We’re doing some things we’ve not done before. People can expect quite a lot of emotion and, hopefully, a good mix of chills," he teased. "We did a couple of horror stories in season 6, which we label as Red Mirror. But this time around, the episodes are all, in a way, like OG Black Mirror.

"I wrote one script, and the general consensus was that it was one of the bleakest, heaviest gut punches yet. There’s also techy episodes and ones that are making people cry. So, hopefully, it’s a full emotional workout, but we shall see. The viewers will be the judge."

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What are those stories? We don't have full details yet, but the trailer offers some hints. As one might expect from Black Mirror in 2025, artificial intelligence will play a role, with Peter Capaldi's eccentric character declaring that "humans consider artificial life to be somehow less than them." This statement, of course, is a load-bearing vertebrae in the backbone of dystopian sci-fi — see: Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick — so we're curious to see how Brooker approaches it.

The trailer also teases a storyline about video games — specifically, the reconciliation of gaming's violent nature with humanity's desire to immerse itself deeper into virtual worlds.

While Black Mirror has always been an anthology series, the season 7 trailer seems to tease a piece of technology that may or may not connect these stories. Several characters — including those played by Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, and Issa Rae — seem to place a teensy device on their temples. During this section, Capaldi's character monologues about a process called "mind-expanding," which he says "alters your neural structure... suddenly, you're not just more receptive — you become a receiver."

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Brooker confirmed to THR that each episode is "different, all with different directors and casts," but we wonder if there will be some kind of through line threading them together.

What's more, the series is producing a sequel to a previous segment for the first time in Black Mirror history. In fact, it might be giving us two sequels...

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Yes, sequels. Plural. But first, let's talk about the one we already knew about.

Last year, we learned that Black Mirror will produce a sequel to one of its most acclaimed stories, the Emmy-winning "USS Callister" from season 4. That episode followed Capt. Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), a tech whiz who created sentient clones of his coworkers and exploited them in a virtual world that shares a lot of narrative DNA with Star Trek.

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The sequel to "USS Callister" will find original stars Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, Billy Magnussen, Milanka Brooks, and Osy Ikhile returning to the spaceship created by Robert, who — spoiler alert — was defeated by his would-be slaves.

The description of the episode reads, "Robert Daly is dead. But the crew of the USS Callister — led by Captain Nanette Cole — find their problems are just beginning."

"The first one ends like you could just carry that story on and follow where they go now. So it was always like, 'Hmm, I’m going to do that,'" Brooker told THR of the sequel. "It was something we were looking at for quite a long time. There were various iterations it went through, various version we wanted to do and were discussing on and off for several years."

He continued, "We continue the story from where we left off. And there are some new characters as well. There is new stuff to do with where they’ve now ended up versus where they were."

Some of that "new stuff" could involve the exploration of an alien planet, as teased in the trailer, which shows Milioti and Simpson's characters in old-timey spacesuits.

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But that's not all. While it isn't confirmed as of this writing, Black Mirror season 7's trailer and photos tease what may be another sequel. To what? Bandersnatch, the interactive film that hit Netflix at the end of 2018.

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Bandersnatch starred Fionn Whitehead as a programmer adapting a "choose your own adventure" book into a video game. It costarred Will Poulter as Colin Ritman, a wunderkind game designer who worked at the video game company Tuckersoft with Mohan Thakur (Asim Chaudhry).

Who happens to appear in Black Mirror season 7? That's right, Poulter and Chaudhry. We see them talking about video games in the trailer. We'll leave it there for now.

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All six episodes of Black Mirror season 7 will be available to stream on April 10.

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In addition to Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, Billy Magnussen, and the rest of the USS Callister crew, Black Mirror season 7 will feature Will Poulter and Asim Chaudhry, who, as we previously noted, may be reprising previous Black Mirror roles.

The cast also features heavy hitters like Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Emma Corrin (Deadpool & Wolverine), Issa Rae (Insecure), and Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish), as well as Awkwafina (The Farewell), Chris O'Dowd (The IT Crowd), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation), Harriet Walter (Succession), and Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who).

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Currently, all six seasons of Black Mirror, as well as Bandersnatch, are available to stream on Netflix. Black Mirror season 7 arrives at Netflix on April 10.

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