It’s been close to a year now since we knew there would be a sixth season of Black Mirror. As we already told you at that time, the departure of Charlie Brooker (the creator of the series) from his production company, House of Tomorrow, made it difficult for the creator and Netflix to get down to business with a new season. However, after a chain of purchases, sales, mergers and others, the necessary circumstances arose again for the successful and valued series to be resumed by Brooker.
Since then, however, we had not heard from him about how the production of the sixth season of Black Mirror was evolving. Not about his arguments, of course, because this is something that Brooker protects greatly, to prevent a leak from ending the surprise effect that each of the episodes of his series poses, nor about its rhythm, the scheduled dates , etc. The mutism has been exceptional, so that the official announcement, by Netflix, has taken us by surprise and, for many (among which I include myself) it has been a joy… with certain reservations.
And what ad is that? Well, as we can read in Tudum, and we can also confirm it by accessing the series file on the platform itself, Netflix will premiere the sixth season of Black Mirror in June. The specific day has not yet been indicated, but after about four years since the premiere of the fifth took place, a few days more or less will not make much difference with respect to what the total wait has meant. And yes, along with the announcement of the new season, Netflix has published a video that acts as its first preview:
In Brooker’s statements about this sixth season of Black Mirror, he alludes to some changes on the classic postulates of the series «I’ve always felt that Black Mirror should present stories that are completely different from each other and still surprise people, and myself, or else, what’s the point? It should be a series that cannot be easily defined and can keep reinventing itself.
Partly as a challenge, and partly to keep things fresh for both myself and the viewer, I began this season by deliberately changing some of my own basic assumptions about what to expect. Consequently, this time around, along with some of the more familiar Black Mirror tropes, we also get some new elements, including some I previously swore blindly the show would never do, to stretch the parameters of what a Black Mirror episode is. . It even is. All the stories are still Black Mirror through and through, but with some crazy twists and more variety than ever before.«.
And what does this mean exactly? The truth is that andWe have seen changes in the model in previous seasons. For example, and unlike what happened in all the episodes until then, USS Callister and the sensational San Junípero left us, for the first time in history, with a good taste in our mouths and a certain feeling of optimism. We also saw how the series dedicated an episode to remember, within its own plot, yes, some previous episodes.
On the other hand, it is true that the last two seasons began to show some wear and tear not in the concept of the series, but in the plots of its episodes. Redefining his seams, added to the forced layoff of three years, could be the breath of fresh air he was needing. However, it seems very difficult to return to the level shown mainly in the first two seasons. But hey, it’s Charlie Brooker and it’s Black Mirror, so we’ll have to give it a try, right?
