After a three-year hiatus that left fans wondering about the show’s future, Black Mirror is finally poised for a comeback. Charlie Brooker’s critically acclaimed dystopian anthology series will return to Netflix for Season 6.
According to Variety, the upcoming season will be “even more cinematic in scope, with each installment being treated as an individual film.” Casting is currently underway, and the series still doesn’t have an official release date, but it’s expected to be produced by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’ production house Broke & Bones.
Not much is known about the content of the upcoming Season 6, but Brooker previously told Radio Times that he’s keen to revisit his comic skill set and write scripts that make him laugh because he doesn’t know “what stomach there would be for stories about societies falling apart”.
The last season of Black Mirror premiered on Netflix in 2019 and it was much shorter than its predecessors. It featured a total of three episodes, starring Miley Cyrus, Andrew Scott, Anthony Mackie, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
Black Mirror originally premiered on Channel 4 in 2011 before moving to Netflix and finding a bigger audience in 2015. According to its official logline, this anthology series explores “a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide”.
