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There’s Always Enough Nightmare Fuel to Power the Black Mirror Universe
Creator Charlie Brooker explains season 7’s unsettling inspirations and endings, including the show’s first sequel ‘USS Callister: Into Infinity.’
The new batch of six episodes, all written or co-written by its creator Charlie Brooker, reflects the full range of how the show has evolved to include new grooves — a mix of the horrific and the comedic, the hopeful and the nihilistic, the archly British and the sourly American. The first episode this season, “ Common People,” revolves around a couple, played by Rashida Jones and Chris O’Dowd, who are financially beholden to a biotech start-up when one of them suffers an aneurysm and becomes mortally dependent on their technology. “Hotel Reverie” has a natural relationship with last season’s “ Joan Is Awful ” in that it feels like you’re working through how traditional artistic production — in these specific cases, Hollywood filmmaking — might be changed by artificial intelligence.
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