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I’ll tell you what this series of Black Mirror felt like to me. It honestly felt like all of my biggest fears had a party together, and then I waited until I fell asleep to shake myself awake.

I can’t be the only one to admit that some months ago, as soon as Series 7 was announced and set to be released in April 2025, I jumped up and down, ecstatic.

I also couldn’t have been the only one who immediately anticipated what Charlie Brooker, the creator of this successful show, could’ve possibly come up with next.

The Emmy award-winning dark science fiction anthology series explores the side of new technologies and their damaging impacts on human behavior, society, and relationships in modern life. Brooker has mastered the craft in such a believable and nuanced form that I can easily say it has impacted my own connections with people.

Each episode is so brilliantly unique and different, with a completely distinctive cast (aside from one sneaky sequel episode and an episode that reprises the roles of an iconic duo from an interactive movie), and offers such a range of genres, whilst exploring its core theme of a variety of technologies’ downfall on people.

The thing I loved the most about this striking new series was the heavy focus on hot-topic issues relating to technology and social interaction. From suspicious and outrageous subscription service packages to AI simulation crafting an almost believable and identical world to serve the traditional form of black-and-white feature movies, there was something for everyone in this latest series.

Brooker also returns to one of his favourite technological themes: the vast and furious world of gaming.

Not to provide too many spoilers, but I did cry at one of the episodes so much so, I had to play some upbeat music to lift me out of my sorrowful spirits.

Whilst I can appreciate that Black Mirror can appear too close to home, we are entering a completely scary world of AI, and it has arisen fears in the creative community due to its easy use and promotion on social media platforms.

This series, in particular, provided the twists and turns that I craved from my favourite thought-provoking episodes, such as ‘Be Right Back’, ‘White Bear’, ‘Nosedive’, ‘Shut Up and Dance’, and ‘Hang the DJ’, just to name a few.

I also loved the way it opened with ‘Common People’ to adhere to its relatability to everyday people with everyday lives, to finish with sci-fi favourite ‘USS Callister: Into Infinity’, which infinitely exceeded my personal expectations. I fell down a loop hole whilst Daley was literally stuck in a forever loop.

This was written by our contributing writer, Megan Evans.