Brace yourselves, mates. The long-awaited fifth season of Black Mirror is very, very close. Nearly six months after having our brains wrinkled via the sprawling, wildly ambitious interactive film Bandersnatch, a much more “traditional” batch of three new episodes is coming in early June, and this morning we not only copped juicy episode titles and plot details, but a crop of brand new teasers as well. Mates? It’s gonna be good.
The three-episode season is set to drop on Netflix once again, and if these teasers are anything to go by we’re in for one hell of a ride.
In the first episode, Smithereens, a tightly-wound rideshare driver played by Andrew Scott has a really terrible, no good, very bad time after he “becomes the centre of attention on a day that rapidly spirals out of control.” The episode also stars Topher Grace as some sort of hippie-lookin’ wellness guru. There’s a sentence I didn’t expect to be writing today, or any day.
In the second, Striking Vipers, “two estranged college friends reunite in later life, triggering a series of events that could alter their lives forever.” Anthony Mackie picks up a leading role playing a man with a family life looking for some sort of mental out.
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Finally, Rachel, Jack, and Ashley, Too pits Miley Cyrus as the idyllic pop star with the fairy tale life whose existence seems too good to be true. Cyrus also voices a weird Alexa-like robot companion who apparently gains sentience and rejects the power cord shoved up its ass. So it’s got that going for it too.
Not a lot of other information is available at this time, but fortunately for all of us we don’t have much longer to wait: Black Mirror season five arrives on Netflix come June 5th.
Prepare accordingly.
