‘Black Mirror’ fans react to season six trailer: “Time to reactivate Netflix”
nme.comBlack Mirror season six – check it out above.Charlie Brooker’s dystopian sci-fi anthology series returns with five new episodes on June 15, which are described as the “most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet”.As shown in the trailer, one episode titled Joan Is Awful breaks the fourth wall on Netflix itself, as a woman (Anna Murphy) discovers she’s become the subject of a prestige TV drama adaptation where she’s played by Salma Hayek Pinault.
Other cast members in the episode include Ben Barnes, Himesh Patel, Michael Cera and Rob Delaney.The second episode, Loch Henry, follows a young couple who “travel to a sleepy Scottish town to start work on a genteel nature documentary” only to find “themselves drawn to a juicy local story involving shocking events of the past”.
Cast members include Daniel Portman, John Hannah, Monica Dolan, Myh’la Herrold and Samuel Blenkin.Beyond The Sea stars Aaron Paul, Auden Thornton, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara and Rory Culkin, and depicts “two men on a perilous high-tech mission” in an alternative 1969.Zazie Beetz, Clara Rugaard and Danny Ramirez star in Mazey Day, about a troubled starlet who is “dogged by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the consequences of a hit-and-run incident”.The final episode, titled Demon 79, is set in northern England in 1979. “A meek sales assistant is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster,” a synopsis reads.
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