'Black Mirror' Season 7 to Include a Sequel to a Fan Favorite Episode

Netflix announced this week that the seventh season of creator Charlie Brooker's dark, satirical anthology series Black Mirror will return in 2025. The streamer officially renewed the series for Season 7 last fall, but little information was provided about what viewers could expect from the franchise's next chapter. But with the confirmation of a 2025 premiere, we've finally discovered a few key details — including that the show will finally produce an episode that directly follows a previous installment.

Part of the joy of Black Mirror is that it can essentially be watched in any order. All its episodes are standalone, and their stories are self-contained, though there are a handful of hints and Easter eggs that suggest that several of them may exist in a shared universe of some type. But with its upcoming seventh season, Black Mirror is set to try something new: A sequel to the Season 4 sci-fi adventure "USS Callister."

The original episode started Jesse Plemons (Killers of the Flower Moon) as Robert Daly, a disgruntled, vaguely misogynist tech employee who takes out his frustrations against his coworkers (and acts out his crush on one of them) by using their DNA to create sentient digital clones of them all and inserting them into a Star Trek-style game. Daly, naturally, has made himself captain of a ship known as the USS Callister. However, it is the newly hired Nanette, played by Cristin Milioti (The Resort), whose clone ultimately encourages her fellow crew members to rebel against their captain's iron rule.