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The good thing about creating tales involving the horrors of expertise 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 advertisements, and browse an AI-generated synopsis of the most recent information tales served to you by an algorithm. You may 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 at all times related its varied cautionary tales with little threads and references sprinkled all through its episodes, Season 7 is straight-up revisiting just a few episodes instantly, 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 really was a recreation the place viewers may make selections in regards to the occasions taking place on-screen. The movie, which itself was a couple of developer adapting a pick-a-path e book right into a videogame, received an Emmy for greatest TV film, and we preferred it loads 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.
“We have now 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 arms 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 positive hope so—it was a number of enjoyable rewatching the film and making totally different selections to see the way it modified the story.
Primarily based on the trailer the collection 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 at all times, it would not appear like something seems that properly for anybody, although the collection does often embody, if not a contented ending for its characters, a minimum of a semi-hopeful one.
