"In Common People, Rashida Jones plays an ordinary woman drowning in medical debt. The episode coldly and accurately shows what happens when staying alive becomes financially unsustainable,” one "Black Mirror" viewer on X aptly said of the episode.

That is precisely what the first episode of Black Mirror's seventh season, titled "Common People," is doing—but with a fun bit of misdirection along the way. "Common People" draws viewers in with a couple familiar faces and leads them to believe,

Black Mirror is back, and this time, with a not-so-far off dystopia of subscription hell. “Common People,” season 7, episode 1, sits in familiar territory, at the intersection of technology and capitalism.