2023-06-11 12:42:00
No series explored the dystopian extremes to which the uncertain present can go as Black Mirror, and that is why his silence during the pandemic was significant: there was no fiction that might compete with that event. The creator and screenwriter Charlie Brooker took four years to launch the brand new sixth season of the strip, which arrives on Netflix this June 15 with the even stranger feeling that time has not passed.
The delivery, announced by the platform as the most “unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected” so far, is promoted as usual accompanied by a halo of mystery. The information released by the dropper dictates that the five episodes will have a movie format (emulating the previous ones “National Hate”, “White Christmas” and “Bandersnatch”), and the trailer released a few days ago shows familiar faces such as Aaron Paul, Salma Hayek and Michael Cera. The motto of Black Mirror It was always the least is more: the fifth season that was launched in June 2019 had only three episodes.
Perhaps it would be necessary to read in that filtering a principle of creative exhaustion; that triad of episodes that had Miley Cyrus as the star was one of the weakest in the series, and critics and fans had already pointed out a loss of quality when Black Mirror moved from English channel 4 to Netflix in 2015.
The recent parenthesis that fiction went through had in part to do with another important transfer: in January 2020 Brooker and his partner Annabel Jones left the production company House of Tomorrow that brought them together when the Endemol Shine Group to which it belonged was acquired by the multinational French Banijay Group.
The duo responsible for Black Mirror He then founded his own production company Broke and Bones, which Netflix quickly took over with an estimated investment of $100 million. The rights to the series still belonged to Banijay, with which Netflix had to enter into a decisive agreement. With all those corporate delays, the filming of the sixth season might only start in mid-2022.
Brooker, however, acknowledged in an interview with Radio Times of 2020 that the world conditions at that time prevented issuing new chapters of Black Mirror. The screenwriter literally admitted in the middle of the pandemic that there was no longer a “stomach” willing to process gloomy stories regarding the flawed relationship between humanity and technology.
In that exchange Brooker gave vague indications of his plans for the series, stating that he had reverted to more comedic writing like the one that Black Mirror he knew how to show off in his British beginnings. Who knows, perhaps what the strip lacks to recover its masterful touch are some tricky laughs.
In a current note with Tumthe Netflix blog, Brooker said: “I always felt that Black Mirror I had to include completely different stories from each other, and to continue surprising people -and myself-, but what’s the point? It must be a fiction that cannot be easily defined and that keeps reinventing itself all the time,” he stressed.
And he completed: “Partly as a challenge and partly to keep things fresh for myself and for the viewer, I began to conceive this season deliberately putting on hold the most basic assumptions regarding what to expect from the series. Consequently, to certain familiar themes of Black Mirror new elements are added, including some that I swore never to include, with the aim of taking what is supposed to be an ‘episode of Black Mirror‘ should be. Either way, the stories bear the stamp of Black Mirror from cover to cover, although with some crazy twists and a variety never seen before”.
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Apart from what the trailer anticipates, it is already feasible to know the synopses of the five “films” that will be seen from Thursday. In “Joan is Awful” the Joan of the title played by Annie Murphy discovers that there is a series in which she is the protagonist, and that her role is played by none other than Salma Hayek. The hint that Brooker is allowing himself to joke regarding her own creation is evident in the logo of the fictional Streamberry TV signal in the episode, similar to that of Netflix.
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play myself,” Hayek told Tum-. I had to mess with the concepts and clichés that people have regarding me and I had to be somewhat dismissive with myself. It’s like I created a another self to do those grotesque and disgusting things that I would never do in reality, and in that sense I had complete freedom to interpret it”.
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad, Westworld) is himself an astronaut on a space mission far from his earthly family in “Beyond the Sea.” The journey, which takes place in an alternative 1969, is shared with David Ross (Josh Hartnett). Paul marks a unique case in Black Mirrorsince this is his second participation following having provided his voice for “USS Callister”.
“I begged Charlie not to take me off the list and to consider me for other episodes. When this new script landed on my desk, I read it instantly and said yes without thinking,” said the actor.
The set is completed with “Loch Henry”, regarding a young documentary couple made up of Samuel Blenkin and Myha’la Herrold who investigates some events that occurred in a placid Scottish town; “Mazey Day,” where a troubled showbiz star (Clara Rugaard) is stalked by a paparazzi (Zazie Beetz) following being involved in an accident; and “Demon 79″, in which the passive sales assistant Nida (Anjana Vasan) is persuaded by an eccentric guy (Paapa Essiedu) to commit terrible acts during the year 1979.
“I can’t wait for people to really get into these episodes, which I hope they enjoy – especially those parts they shouldn’t enjoy,” Brooker concluded.
To see
The sixth season of Black Mirror It will be available on Netflix from June 15.
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