While that first episode, “Common People,” is indeed a slog, the rest of the season — including and especially the bracingly nasty second episode, “Bête Noire,” which upended my expectations, and then did so again — make the argument that the free-ranging imagination “Black Mirror” has demonstrated in recent years is for the good.

Season seven of Black Mirror is now streaming on Netflix. Issa Rae and Awkwafina spoke to The Hollywood Reporter all about their episode, “Hotel Reverie,” while Jimmi Simpson opened up about returning to the show for the “USS Callister” sequel episode.

Black Mirror's fourth season introduced a dark take on Star Trek with the fan-favorite episode "USS Callister." This week, with the launch of the Netflix sci-fi anthology's seventh season, most of the cast is back for a sequel.

Episode 1 of the new season of Black Mirror, titled Common People, very much falls into our book of classic Black Mirror episodes and is

Charlie Brooker's celeb-packed episodes deliver more tears than fear - 4/5 A starry cast aim for San Junipero levels of doomed love in the seventh installment