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The profit of making tales involving the horrors of expertise is you will actually by no means run out of inspiration. All you have gotta do is use facial recognition to unlock your telephone, shut a number of focused adverts, and browse an AI-generated synopsis of the most recent information tales served to you by an algorithm. You’ll be chilled to the bone inside minutes.
All that inspiration is why Netflix collection Black Mirror is poised to enter its seventh season on April 10. And whereas the anthology collection has all the time linked its varied cautionary tales with little threads and references sprinkled all through its episodes, Season 7 is straight-up revisiting a number of episodes instantly, like a continuation of fan-favorite episode “USS Callister” from Season 4.
More excitingly, Black Mirror Season 7 has a follow-up to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Netflix’s interactive movie from 2018.
Plenty of Black Mirror episodes have one thing to do with videogames, however Bandersnatch truly was a sport the place viewers may make selections in regards to the occasions occurring on-screen. The movie, which itself was a few developer adapting a pick-a-path ebook right into a videogame, gained an Emmy for finest TV film, and we preferred it rather a lot too, calling it “Must-play TV.”
In the Season 7 trailer above, we see a number of photographs of Will Poulter, who seems to be reprising his character from Bandersnatch.
“We must create software program that elevates us, or else what’s the fucking level of the instruments at our disposal?” he asks.
Near the tip of the trailer he foreshadows the horror a bit extra.
“What are most video games about?” he asks one other character.
“Escapism?”
“Killing,” Poulter says, as we see somebody washing their arms in a blood-soaked sink.
What we do not know but is that if this sequel to Bandersnatch will likely be interactive like the unique movie was. I positive hope so—it was plenty of enjoyable rewatching the film and making completely different selections to see the way it modified the story.
Based on the trailer the collection seems to be prefer it’s additionally tackling VR, augmented actuality, and synthetic intelligence, or as a personality performed by Peter Capaldi calls it, “synthetic life.” As all the time, it would not appear like something seems that effectively for anybody, although the collection does often embrace, if not a contented ending for its characters, a minimum of a semi-hopeful one.
