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space conquest, AI and return to the past on the program

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Netflix put online this Thursday, April 10, the seventh season of the cult series “Black Mirror”, plunging fans into a dark technological future which is working on this time to revive the past.

After two years of absencethe fiction created and written by the British Charlie Brooker returns with Six new episodesincluding a suite on board the “USS Callister”, a space epic inspired by the universe of Star Trek and broadcast in 2017.

“There are a few episodes which are quite unpleasant, (…) in the vein of the beginnings of Black Mirror“, and others”very moving, making it a mixture of familiar and unexpected“Said Charlie Brooker at the end of March at the Mania series festival in Lille.

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Several of them draw their inspiration from the melancholy of the past, with technologies that allow you to relive a memory by plunging into an old photoor reinvent a black and white film thanks to artificial intelligence.

A worldwide success

The previous season, written during the pandemic at a time when Charlie Brooker was “Disgusted technology“, was more gore, supernatural than the first, he underlines in the press kit. The seventh should therefore please fans of the first hour thanks to son “Back to fundamentals, with an exploration of technological developments of a near future, a satirical tone and a social criticism.

A recipe that has earned its success in the series, often praised for His anticipation capacity. Black Mirror has notably won neuf Emmy Awardsprestigious American ceremony which rewards the best of television and series. During the release of the previous season, in June 2023, the series had ranked Number 1 in the worldwith More than eleven million views in a week.

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