The brains behind Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker, spilled the beans to Netflix's Tudum about the bittersweet finale of Hotel Reverie: "I knew exactly what the ending should be. "That [Dorothy and Brandy] have this sort of long-distance romance, it felt bittersweet."

Yes, it's tempting to start with "Common People," as it's the first episode of Season 7. It is the one Netflix will prompt you to play first. However, Black Mirror is an anthology

“Black Mirror” will have six brand-new episodes ... Rosy McEwen, Chris O’Dowd, Issa Rae, Paul G. Raymond, Tracee Ellis Ross, Harriet Walter, Will Poulter, Jay Simpson, Michael Workéyè, James Nelson-Joyce, Josh Finan, Asim Chaudhry, Ben Bailey ...

Will Poulter, Rashida Jones, Chris O'Dowd and Cristin Milioti lead an all-star season that doubles down on Charlie Brooker’s trademark delicious weirdness The post ‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Review: Excellent Cast and Dazzling Sequels Fuel Rich New Batch of Episodes appeared first on TheWrap.

While that first episode, “Common People,” is indeed a slog, the rest of the season — including and especially the bracingly nasty second episode, “Bête Noire,” which upended my expectations, and then did so again — make the argument that the free-ranging imagination “Black Mirror” has demonstrated in recent years is for the good.

Brooker agrees: "Quite rightly, when Andy Serkis played Gollum [in the Lord of the Rings trilogy], everyone's amazed by that, but what you're amazed by is the human, you're seeing a human performance shining through.

The Shacklewell Arms to host special screening of Black Mirror episode filmed on its premises - Season seven kicks off with an episode called Eulogy — and the historic boozer where it was filmed is sc

Black Mirror fans were licking their lips and crying “exit game” when Netflix announced a sequel to the much-loved ‘USS Callister’ episode, and creator Charlie Brooker has dished more on how the next instalment came about.