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The good thing about creating tales involving the horrors of know-how is you may actually by no means run out of inspiration. All you have gotta do is use facial recognition to unlock your telephone, shut just a few focused adverts, and browse an AI-generated synopsis of the newest information tales served to you by an algorithm. You will be chilled to the bone inside minutes.
All that inspiration is why Netflix sequence Black Mirror is poised to enter its seventh season on April 10. And whereas the anthology sequence has all the time linked its numerous cautionary tales with little threads and references sprinkled all through its episodes, Season 7 is straight-up revisiting just a few episodes immediately, like a continuation of fan-favorite episode “USS Callister” from Season 4.
Extra excitingly, Black Mirror Season 7 has a follow-up to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Netflix’s interactive movie from 2018.
Loads of Black Mirror episodes have one thing to do with videogames, however Bandersnatch truly was a sport the place viewers might make selections in regards to the occasions occurring on-screen. The movie, which itself was a couple of developer adapting a pick-a-path guide right into a videogame, received an Emmy for finest TV film, and we preferred it rather a lot too, calling it “Should-play TV.”
Within the Season 7 trailer above, we see a number of pictures of Will Poulter, who seems to be reprising his character from Bandersnatch.
“Now we have to create software program that elevates us, or else what’s the fucking level of the instruments at our disposal?” he asks.
Close to the top 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 fingers in a blood-soaked sink.
What we do not know but is that if this sequel to Bandersnatch will probably be interactive like the unique movie was. I certain hope so—it was a whole lot of enjoyable rewatching the film and making completely different selections to see the way it modified the story.
Based mostly on the trailer the sequence appears to be like 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 sequence does sometimes embrace, if not a cheerful ending for its characters, not less than a semi-hopeful one.