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.

Creator Charlie Brooker explains season 7’s unsettling inspirations and endings, including the show’s first sequel ‘USS Callister: Into Infinity.’

Black Mirror fans were licking their lips and crying “exit game” when Netflix announced a sequel to the much-loved ‘USS Callister’ episode, and creator Charlie Brooker has dished more on how the next instalment came about.

The Black Mirror creative team contemplated making a full spinoff series from the popular USS Callister episode.

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.