Netflix Sets April Premiere for 'Black Mirror' Season 7

If the real world feels like it's getting a little too much for you these days, don't worry, Netflix's dystopian techno-horror anthology Black Mirror is coming to make you feel at least a little better that things aren't worse. A modern-day version of The Twilight Zone, the series explores technology's unanticipated, often adverse effects on human society. Usually satirical and frequently (incredibly) disturbing, its stories have explored everything from privacy, corruption, and morality to social media addiction and our near-ubiquitous reliance on smart apps to run our lives. The show is set to return for its seventh season this April, and if the trailer is anything to go by, it's got plenty of dark stories left to tell us.

As is essentially tradition at this point, we know very little about most of the stories set to be featured in the forthcoming season, beyond the tidbits we can glean from the trailer, which appears to feature everything from A.I. characters who seem to become sentient, a horde of animated rabbits that look like they belong in Stardew Valley, and a tablet that appears designed to send your brain into some sort of dreamscape. There are also several glimpses of some surprisingly familiar faces.

Typically, Black Mirror's episodes are standalone stories. Though several installments hint that their stories might be linked or exist in some shared universe, you can generally watch them in any order. But this season, for the very first time, that's about to change.