The trailer gives fans a sneak peek at some of this season's episodes, including one called "Joan Is Awful," in which an average woman (Annie Murphy) discovers that a global streaming platform — a Netflix spoof called Streamberry — has launched a prestige drama based on on her life, in which she is played by Salma Hayek Pinault.
Black Mirror creator and co-showrunner Charlie Brooker teased on Netflix fan site Tudum that he even surprised himself with this new season. "I've always felt that Black Mirror should feature stories that are completely different from each other, and keep surprising people (and myself) because otherwise what's the point?" said Brooker. "It has to be a series that isn't easy to define, reinventing itself over and over again."
The sixth season of the anthology series will premiere on Thursday, June 15.
The series first aired on Channel 4 in the UK in December 2011, and was purchased by Netflix ahead of its third season in 2016. The series' fifth season was released in June 2019, following the premiere of the 2018 interactive feature film Bandersnatch. Before its brief hiatus, the series garnered fourteen Emmy nominations and took home eight Emmys, including for Outstanding Television Motion Picture for "San Junipero," "USS Callister," and Bandersnatch in 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively.
In addition to creating and writing the sixth season, Brooker serves as an executive producer along with Jessica Rhoades, Annabel Jones, and Bisha K. Ali.
Watch the full Black Mirror season six trailer below.
