“You start out feeling like you’re on familiar territory and quite quickly you’ll discover you don’t know where the hell you are,” says creator Charlie Brooker.
Executive Producer Annabel Jones elaborates on Netflix’s disturbing Black Mirror series that explores the dark side of technology through stories set in the seemingly not-so-distant future.
“It taps into contemporary fears and worries and things that people maybe don’t even realize they’re concerned about yet,” Jones says.
Season three debuts October 21, with six new episodes, each set in a different reality.
“The beauty of an anthology series is that you can cover every genre, you can cover every tone,” Jones says.
Brooker adds that while producers didn’t want every episode to be unrelentingly bleak, “the bleakness hasn’t been washed away.”
The season three cast includes Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve, James Norton, Cherry Jones, Wyatt Russell, Alex Lawther, Jerome Flynn, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Davis, Michael Kelly, Malachi Kirby, Kelly McDonald and Faye Marsay.
Joe Wright (Atonement), Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane), James Watkins (The Woman in Black), Owen Harris, Jacob Verbruggen (London Spy) and James Hawes direct. Rashida Jones and Michael Schur served as writers on the episode “Nosedive.”
Jones serves as co-showrunner and executive producer alongside Brooker.
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