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'Black Mirror' Season 3 News : Six Episode Titles And Their Synopses Revealed
"Black Mirror" returns next month with a bigger cast and a new home. The series is set to debut in October on Netflix, with creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones having full creative control over the show.
Since the series arrives in a month, the hype now continues to form around where its creators will take the audience. Reports say that the third installment will feature a world that has changed a lot over the years and will see some of the show's previous episodes come to fruition.
Just recently, Entertainment Weekly has released the official rundown of each of the first six episodes of the coming series, coming straight from Brooker himself.
Here are the episode titles and their synopses:
"Nosedive"
Insecure office worker Lacie (Bryce Dallas Howard) lives in a happy, smiley, status-obsessed nightmare world. Her old friend Naomi (Alice Eve) is one of society's elites -- and Lacie may have found a way to join her... "Each episode this season is a different genre; this one is a social satire," Brooker revealed. "It's got a creepy serenity to it and won't be what people expect."
"San Junipero"
California, 1987: San Junipero is a fun-loving beach town synonymous with sun, surf, and sex. And for recent arrivals Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis) and Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), it's going to be a life-changer..."It's kind of an '80s coming-of-age drama with a Black Mirror undertow," Brooker said. "Also, when Netflix picked us up, people were going, ''Oh that means [the show is] going to be Americanized.' I thought it would be a funny to f**k with those people by literally writing an episode set in California."
"Shut Up and Dance"
When withdrawn 19-year-old Kenny (Alex Lawther) stumbles headlong into an online trap, he is quickly forced into an uneasy alliance with shifty Hector (Jerome Flynn) - both of them at the mercy of persons unknown. Brooker explains the episode is set in the present day without any sci-fi elements, adding that it's the "most grounded" of the series; best explained as "a kitchen sink nightmarish thriller".
"Men Against Fire"
A military story set in a post-war future, the episode sees a rookie soldier (Malachi Kirby) posted overseas, protecting frightened villagers from an infestation of vicious feral mutants alongside fellow soldier Raiman (Madeline Brewer). They're hoping some new technological advantage will save them. "It stemmed slightly from thinking about drone attacks and how technology is alternating the face of warfare, but it's not about drones," Brooker explained. "It's a horror thriller, almost like The Walking Dead."
"Playtest"
A thrill-seeking globetrotter (Wyatt Russell) visits Britain, hooks up with a woman (Hannah John-Kamen) and tests the latest in video game technology - "a device as mind-bendingly sophisticated as it is terrifying." The episode stems from Brooker's own experience as a former video game journalist; directed by Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane), who he described as, "fantastic at creating suspenseful and tense mood; this is our Evil Dead 2."
"Hated in the Nation"
The show's first-ever 90-minute episode is a crime drama inspired by the likes of Scandi-Noir thrillers The Killing and Borgen. A police detective (Kelly McDonald) and her geeky young sidekick investigate a string of grisly murders with a sinister link to social media. Brooker teased the episode as dealing with, "online rage". "It starts out like a stylish standard police procedural, then takes a bizarre turn."
The full six episodes premiere on Netflix on October 21.