‘Black Mirror’ Will Return for a Fifth Season

Streaming service Netflix announced that the popular dystopian science fiction anthology Black Mirror will be back for a fifth season.

The series, which has featured high-caliber British acting talent of almost every stripe, explores issues of technology and its unanticipated effects on modern society. Each episode is a standalone story, and can be watched in pretty much any order – though the series’ creators have been hinting that some (or all?) of them may exist within a larger shared universe.

Basically, Black Mirror is like a modern, more tecnosavvy version of The Twilight Zone, but if all the social media apps, dating services, home security systems and online game shows turned out to be basically terrible and/or threating to us, all the time.  (It’s honestly a fascinating series, and if you haven’t checked it out yet, you should.)

Black Mirror originally aired on UK network Channel 4 for its first two seasons, before creator Charlie Brooker brought it to Netflix in the hopes of increasing its global audience. Its critically acclaimed third season – which saw episode “San Junipero” nab two Emmys – was an instant hit. The fourth season dropped late in 2017 and featured episodes that tackled everything from a Star Trek-style space adventure (“U.S.S. Callister”) to a black and white horror film (“Metalhead”).

Word of the series’ renewal came via the official Black Mirror Twitter account, which dropped a cryptic video featuring clips from many previous episodes and a tag line that was basically a shout out to Season 2. (The fantastic Hayley Atwell and Domhnall Gleeson-starring tale “Be Right Back”.)

Watch for yourselves below: