‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker on Dealing the Show’s ‘Biggest Body Blow’ in Season 7 and Whether He Took Another Swipe at Netflix: ‘Almost Disappointingly, No’

Black Mirror” is back for another round of mostly-worrying near-future dystopia.

Charlie Brooker’s darkly satirical anthology series — which began life in 2011 — is now onto its seventh season, all six episodes of which land on Netflix April 10.

Where the previous outing largely skipped the show’s tech-focused roots in favor of genres such as horror, this time it heads back towards it origins, featuring technological themes such as digitization, tiered-pricing and video gaming, but all told through its usual bleak — and sometimes bleakly comic — lens. Artificial intelligence, unsurprisingly, crops up several times.

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