Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has teased that one of the episodes from the upcoming season is the "bleakest" one yet.
The Netflix anthology show is due to return next year with its seventh season, with one of the instalments due to be a sequel to 'USS Callister', an episode from season four.
Whilst most of the details remain secret, Brooker did speak with Deadline about the upcoming episodes, teasing that one featured his bleakest message yet.
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"We’re doing some things we’ve not done before," he began. "People can expect quite a lot of emotion and, hopefully, a good mix of chills. 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."
Brooker also spoke about the show as a whole and its impact on audiences, sharing: "Getting recognition has been amazing because when I first started, I had no conception that this was a show that would ever travel beyond the shores of the UK.
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"I get frustrated about people going, 'Oh, it’s the phones are evil and tech is bad’ show. It’s because I think I’m impressed by the technological tools that we create because they’re f***ing amazing, and phones are amazing. Just like any powerful tool, it’s what you do with it.
"If anything, I’m a natural neurotic worrier generally, and I worry all the time about how these things are impressive. As a former video games journalist and current dweeb, I love all of this stuff. I couldn’t write Black Mirror if I hated technology… But I worry about our propensity to be clumsy."
Black Mirror streams on Netflix.
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