Long Awaited 'Black Mirror' Season 6 is Finally in the Works at Netflix

Given how generally terrible the real world has been in recent years, you may not have actually noticed that we haven't had new episodes of the dystopian science fiction series Black Mirror on our screens for going on three years now. But, apparently, Netflix is finally working on changing that.

The series, an anthology that's basically a modern, more technologically savvy version of The Twilight Zone, explores the ways that things like social media apps, online home security systems, dating services, smart assistants, and other devices that we freely and unquestioningly give our data to have all had unanticipated (and generally negative!) effects on modern society. Each episode is a standalone story and the series can be watched in pretty much any order. (Though there are hints that some of the tales may exist within a larger shared universe.)

Season 5 premiered in June of 2019 and featured stories starring famous faces like Miley Cyrus and Anthony Mackie. Previous installments have featured everyone from Hayley Atwell and Jessica Brown Findlay to Domhnall Gleeson and Jon Hamm.)