Black Mirror to Return in 2025, Including a ‘USS Callister’ Sequel
Attention, space cadets: Black Mirror is coming back to creep you out again — and it’s bringing back a familiar story, too.
Netflix‘s sci-fi anthology will return to for Season 7 in 2025, the streamer announced on Thursday, and the six-episode season will include an installment that returns to the world of Season 4’s space adventure “USS Callister.” A new teaser features the familiar Black Mirror loading page along with six symbols — including one that matches the insignia of the Callister spaceship. (Watch the new teaser below.)
The streamer added a tease at the Next on Netflix event in London on Thursday, per The Hollywood Reporter: “Robert Daly is dead, but for the crew of the USS Callister, their problems are just beginning.”
“USS Callister” originally aired as part of Black Mirror’s fourth season, which debuted in 2017. Jesse Plemons starred as Robert Daly, a reclusive computer programmer who builds a Star Trek-like sci-fi world inside a video game to take revenge on his real-life enemies. The episode ended with Cristin Milioti’s Nanette freeing herself and the USS Callister crew from Daly’s control and piloting the spaceship herself. (There’s no word yet on whether Milioti and the rest of the cast will reprise their roles.)
Black Mirror — an Emmy-winning anthology of self-contained tales of technology run amok — unveiled its sixth season on Netflix last year. (Click here for a ranking of each Season 6 episode.) It was renewed for Season 7 in November.
Are you ready to board the USS Callister once again? Hit the comments, Black Mirror fans, and let us know what you think.
Totally down for another installment of USS Callister.
You essentially have a crew of sentient NPCs living and playing inside an MMO video game. There are so many interesting stories that you could tell.
Can they die, or do they just endlessly respawn?
Do they grow to dominate the game, because they’re playing 24/7/365?
Do they ever try to reach out to their real-world counterparts, from whom they were digitally cloned?
Excellent news. Always fun to see what they come up with!
Meh. A sequel to Callister might be fun but as for the rest… the last season of Black Mirror was not very good and the one before that wasn’t much better. I think it might be time to put this one to rest. Its glory days are long over.
The thing with an anthology series like this is that you’re constantly bringing in new creators, so you never know what you’re going to get in terms of quality. Every season has a few duds, but that doesn’t reduce the likelihood of finding a gem.
To each their own I guess. I loved last season and look forward to the next.
Fingers crossed…series six was shyte.