Netflix Sets April Premiere for 'Black Mirror' Season 7

If the real world feels like it's getting a little too much for you these days, don't worry, Netflix's dystopian techno-horror anthology Black Mirror is coming to make you feel at least a little better that things aren't worse. A modern-day version of The Twilight Zone, the series explores technology's unanticipated, often adverse effects on human society. Usually satirical and frequently (incredibly) disturbing, its stories have explored everything from privacy, corruption, and morality to social media addiction and our near-ubiquitous reliance on smart apps to run our lives. The show is set to return for its seventh season this April, and if the trailer is anything to go by, it's got plenty of dark stories left to tell us.

As is essentially tradition at this point, we know very little about most of the stories set to be featured in the forthcoming season, beyond the tidbits we can glean from the trailer, which appears to feature everything from A.I. characters who seem to become sentient, a horde of animated rabbits that look like they belong in Stardew Valley, and a tablet that appears designed to send your brain into some sort of dreamscape. There are also several glimpses of some surprisingly familiar faces. 

Typically, Black Mirror's episodes are standalone stories. Though several installments hint that their stories might be linked or exist in some shared universe, you can generally watch them in any order. But this season, for the very first time, that's about to change. 

Creator Charlie Brooker previously confirmed Season 7 would contain a direct sequel to the Season 4 sci-fi adventure "USS Callister," which followed a misogynist tech employee who created sentient digital clones of his coworkers and inserted them all into a Star Trek-style game. While viewers don't know where the new installment will take things, the trailer features cast members Cristin Milioti (The Penguin), Jimmi Simpson (The Man Who Fell to Earth), and Billy Magnussen (The Franchise) reprising their roles from "Callister." 

However, they're not the only returning faces we'll see in this run of episodes. Will Poulter (Why Didn't They Ask Evans?) and Asim Chaudhry (Picture This), who starred in the interactive one-off film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, will both be back. Why? Well, your guess is as good as ours. 

Confirmed cast members joining the Black Mirror universe for Season 7 include Peter Capaldi (The Devil's Hour), Harriet Walter (Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light), Paul Giamatti (Downton Abbey), Emma Corrin (The Crown), Chris O’Dowd (Small Town, Big Story), Patsy Ferran (Firebrand), Lewis Gribben (Masters of the Air), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist), Osy Ikhile (Citadel), Siena Kelly (Domino Day: Lone Witch), Paul G. Raymond (Horrible Histories), Milanka Brooks (Cleaning Up), Rashida Jones (Sunny), Issa Rae (Insecure), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish), and Awkwafina (Poker Face).

Newly announced members of the ensemble include Michele Austin (Boat Story), Ben Bailey Smith (Truelove), Josh Finan (Say Nothing), James Nelson-Joyce (A Thousand Blows), Jay Simpson (The Day of the Jackal), and Michael Workéyè (This Is Going to Hurt). 

Black Mirror is created and written by Brooker, who is also an executive producer alongside Jessica Rhoades and Annabel Jones.

All six episodes of Black Mirror Season 7 are slated to premiere on Netflix on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Seasons 1 through 6 and the standalone film Bandersnatch, are streaming now.