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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Paul Giamatti, Chris O'Dowd, Rashida Jones, Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, and every ‘Black Mirror' Emmy acting submission
Netflix will submit eight cast members from Black Mirror for Emmy consideration, Gold Derby has learned. and Chris O'Dowd will be submitted for Limited Series/TV Movie Actor and Rashida Jones will be submitted for Limited Series/TV Movie Actress. More from GoldDerby 'The Four Seasons' co-creators explain their decision to kill [spoiler] - and Tina Fey's remarkable performance in response: 'She's really good' 'Awards Magnet': 'The Four Seasons' enters Emmy season and category moves No, Conan O'Brien is not dead in the 'Hacks' world - and he has an 'open invite' to join Season 5 Netflix who stepped back into the role of Walton for Black Mirror's "USS Callister: Into Infinity," the sequel to the Emmy-winning episode that originally aired in 2017, will be submitted for Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor. Likewise, his costar Cristin Milioti, who similarly reprised her role for "Into Infinity," is being submitted as Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actress. The decision would potentially make her eligible for two Emmy nominations, since she is planning on going in the lead category for The Penguin. Emma Corrin, Issa Rae, and Tracee Ellis Ross will also be submitted for supporting actress. Giamatti starred in the Black Mirror episode titled "Eulogy," about a man who can step into old photographs to relive certain moments with a former love. While O'Dowd and Jones play a couple looking to start a family when the wife falls into a coma and her husband moves forward with an unusual life-saving procedure in the episode titled "Common People," which also stars Ross. Below is the list of Netflix's official Black Mirror acting submissions for Emmy consideration. Please note that because actors are allowed to submit on their own, meaning actors not on this list could still appear on the Emmy ballot. Limited Series/TV Movie Actor: Paul Giamatti, Chris O'Dowd Limited Series/TV Movie Actress: Rashida Jones Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor: Jimmi Simpson Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actress: Emma Corrin, Cristin Milioti, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross Best of GoldDerby 'The Pitt' star Shawn Hatosy loves 'ER cowboy' Dr. Abbot as much as you do Everything to know about Ryan Coogler's 'The X-Files' reboot: Gillian Anderson finally weighs in 'I just wanted to make her feel seen': Imogen Faith Reid on portraying Natalia Grace in Hulu's 'Good American Family' Click here to read the full article.
Indian Express
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Black Mirror season 7 amazes, but falls short on tech-driven storytelling; did the episodes live up to expectations?
When a sci-fi fan sits down to watch Black Mirror, they expect a certain level of technological intrigue. However, season seven, while rich in psychological depth, did not quite deliver what matters most: groundbreaking technology. Over time, Black Mirror's sharp focus on the dark side of technological development seems to have been dialled down. Instead of showcasing tech evolution, the latest season often felt like a collection of recycled ideas, familiar narratives, and only average innovation. Here's a breakdown of all the episodes of Black Mirror season 7 and why I felt it missed the mark in many places: Episode 1: Common people The season opener Common People had plenty of potential, striking the right emotional chord from the beginning. The premise—a husband using high-tech means to save his wife's life—was intriguing. Yet, the execution felt predictable, echoing themes explored in previous seasons, without enough technological twists to keep it fresh. Chris O'Dowd and Rashida Jones delivered convincing performances, but the climax did not do justice to the setup. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO Siena Kelly and Rosy McEwen's second episode is a psychological thriller about a culinary researcher whose reality shifts after an old schoolmate joins her workplace. However, the story lacked impact and clear explanation. The technological metaphor—hinting at the Mandela effect—felt underdeveloped and unsatisfying. Instead of focusing on a novel tech invention, the episode leaned more heavily into psychological manipulation, missing the essence of Black Mirror's tech-driven storytelling. Episode 3: Hotel Reverie Set in 40s Hollywood, the black-and-white episode explored the use of AI-based virtual production to recreate films in the modern world. Emma Corrin impressed as Dorothy, but Issa Rae's performance as Brandy felt less convincing. While the episode succeeded in evoking emotions, the technology served more as a background detail than a core focus. Compared to the early seasons, the episode lacked the sharp technological commentary that once defined the show. ALSO READ | Episode 4: Plaything This episode offered beautiful storytelling but left me confused by the climax. The ending did not fully justify the episode's emotional buildup. Peter Capaldi's chilling performance brought back memories of Bandersnatch and elevated the narrative. A video game journalist becomes obsessed with an unusual game populated by artificial lifeforms, leading to the end of humanity. If I had to rank all the season seven episodes, Plaything would likely take first place for its storytelling quality, even if its tech innovation was modest. Are the makers running out of fresh ideas? Eulogy felt like a rehash of concepts explored in earlier seasons, similar to Common People. It followed a lonely man revisiting memories and photographs of a deceased ex-girlfriend using a system that allows users to relive moments inside images. Sound familiar? While the emotional angle was powerful, thanks largely to Paul Giamatti's gut-wrenching performance, the technological element took a back seat. Again. Episode 6: USS Callister: Into Infinity The most anticipated episode, USS Callister: Into Infinity, a sequel to the beloved season four episode USS Callister, finally delivered. In my opinion, it had the most satisfying climax out of all the episodes. Revisiting the digital realm adventure of the office peers with even more high stakes to save their lives, the narrative served tech value and character development with a familiar backdrop. The theme of digital consciousness lives up to the expectations in the episode. Black Mirror season 7 shines when it comes to storytelling, emotional depth and character development. But, it surely lacks in presenting new, high-end and fresh technological concepts. It touches the deep psychological string, but leaves you wanting more of the show's sci-fi trademark.
Metro
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Netflix fans have just hours to binge 'funniest British TV show ever'
Every day, Netflix adds more and more incredible TV shows and movies to its lineup. Sadly, though, nothing lasts forever (not even Netflix licensing deals), and occasionally we have to wave goodbye to an incredible show. So, it's with a heavy heart that I write this, but on April 25, The IT Crowd – one of the best British comedies of the 21st century – will leave the streaming service. Set in the fictional Reynholm Industries, this sensational sitcom followed the company's IT department staffed by the 'standard nerds'. That included the brilliant but boring Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade), the lazy Roy Trenneman (Chris O'Dowd), and their manager, Jen Barber (Katherine Parkinson), the nominally normal one. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. If you've never seen it, it's probably best described as The Office's more extraverted sibling. While Ricky Gervais's TV baby captured the mind-numbing tedium of working life (sorry to my boss if you're reading this), The IT Crowd was lively and surreal. Episodes would deal with strange ideas, like a goth living behind a secret office door, convincing colleagues that they'd destroyed the internet, or your co-workers appearing on Countdown ('that's a nice tnetennba'). It was deliberately weird and wonderful, and while you could probably fit the number of people who watched the first episode in a reasonably sized cupboard – the BBC described the viewing figures as 'disappointing' – the show slowly developed a cult following. Over the course of its run, The IT Crowd went from a secret hit to a phenomenon, picking up multiple award nominations and even a few wins, while Roy's catchphrase 'Have you tried turning it on and off again' became the bane of real-life IT workers across the UK. The IT Crowd Peep Show The Inbetweeners The Office Mr Bean The Thick of It Outnumbered Friday Night Dinner My Family This Country In fact, The IT Crowd was such a success that it was crowned 'the funniest British sitcom ever' in a study conducted by [via According to the study, The IT Crowd makes a person laugh on average for one minute and 44 seconds every episode, that's a whole eight seconds more than the second funniest show, Peep Show. Perhaps the most obvious sign of the show's success, though, was when America tried and failed to make their own version of the show, not once but twice. Afterall, are you really a hit UK sitcom if there hasn't been a worse US remake? Like Netflix licensing deals, though, all good things must come to an end, and after four seasons and a one-off special, the IT Crowd made their final bows. Since then, the cast has gone on to even more success. Chris O'Dowd has become a Hollywood star, appearing in huge comedy movies like Bridesmaids and the most recent season of Black Mirror. Katherine Parkinson has dazzled on screen and stage, starring in hit TV shows like Inside Number 9, Rivals, and Humans (we'll ignore her embarrassing Taskmaster performance for her sake). Richard Ayoade, meanwhile, has, fittingly, had the most eccentric career. Along with directing critically acclaimed movies like Submarine, he's presented his own travel show for nine seasons, been on what feels like every UK panel show going, and even lent his voice to an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. Most recently, Richard made it to the final two in the brilliant Last One Laughing, where he went head-to-head with Bob Mortimer before inevitably losing to a well-timed joke. Arguably, though, for all the success of the core three cast members, it's Matt Berry who played their insane boss Douglas Reynholm who's gone on to enjoy the most success. More Trending Since The IT Crowd ended, he's gone on to lead not one but two hit shows – Toast of London and What We Do in the Shadows – and made guest appearances on The Mandalorian, Fallout, and The Simpsons (plus he was also in the SpongeBob movie which is clearly better than one episode). So, if you've never given The IT Crowd a chance, why not give it a go? There are only 25 episodes to get through. That's plenty of time for a quick TV binge before the show logs off Netflix. View More » The IT Crowd is available to stream on Netflix. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Netflix quietly adds 'striking' movie about beloved author MORE: 'Most influential movie of the 21st century' now streaming for free MORE: Prison drama that's 'as good as the Godfather' has Netflix viewers hooked
The Guardian
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Black Mirror season seven review – Charlie Brooker's thrilling satire gets its warmest, most human season ever
It's tough being an anthology. While other dramas set up their premise and characters and then lazily dole out a little more of the same in every episode, anthologies must constantly seek our approval anew. If critics and viewers think the latest shiny thing is a dud, they toss it into the void and deem all the expert hard work that went into it to be a waste. Even the hits are only celebrated briefly before everyone moves on to the next fresh story, ready to give it a thumbs up or down. In season seven of his collection of digital-age fables, Black Mirror writer Charlie Brooker finally cracks and, for the first time, produces a sequel to an old episode. This year's feature-length finale, USS Callister: Into Infinity, is a straight continuation of season four's fan favourite. But it's the least interesting instalment from the new batch, because it can't replicate the thrill, the hope, of starting without knowing whether this latest adventure will be a success. The other five offerings take that risk, and almost all get their reward. Leading the line is Common People, starring Chris O'Dowd and Rashida Jones as a blue-collar couple who have more love than money. When she is diagnosed with a brain tumour, the lifesaving solution is technology that replaces her mind with servers in the cloud – but it's on a monthly subscription, which is expensive, and the company that runs it keeps altering the terms. The episode has one of the show's common flaws, which is a tendency to bludgeon the audience with satire that makes one big point, then works methodically through a long ledger of further logical consequences. It also once again showcases Brooker's maniacal desire to push beyond what other writers might see as unworkably bleak. But as Common People spirals downwards with grim inevitability, like the film Requiem for a Dream for people who are too online, beneath all the dark gags about signal coverage and annoying advertisements is a study of modern precariousness that shows real compassion for its victims. This is where what was once a hard-edged, occasionally malfunctioning cyborg of a show has slowly evolved: Black Mirror 7.0 has a lot of soft tissue around the metal. Tender sentiment flows through the ingenious Hotel Reverie, which stars Issa Rae as a movie actor cast in a new type of remake that inserts her avatar into an AI simulation of the world created by a classic black-and-white romance. A story with notes of The Truman Show and Steven Moffat-era Doctor Who explores how, for all Hollywood's cynical hammering of lucrative formulae and writers' knowledge of which scripting tricks work, fictional people on screen can mean so much to the viewer – and to their authors – that magic happens and they become real. Even more heartfelt is Eulogy, with a perfectly cast Paul Giamatti as a man given the chance to step inside old photographs and unlock memories of a great lost love. The techno-gubbins barely impact on a sweet, sad, simple tale that steps away from Brooker's growing obsession with characters choosing between online and offline versions of themselves. Here instead is a man looking back on his one and only analogue life, regretting what his younger self didn't know and couldn't recognise. The truth about the happiness he could have had is in a box in his attic full of pictures, letters and cassettes. The dust may get in your eye. But this year's other standout demonstrates that Black Mirror hasn't lost its demon streak. Bête Noire has a premise straight out of a midweek terrestrial drama, with Siena Kelly as Maria, the office high-flyer who is right to suspect that new recruit Verity (Rosy McEwen) is a deranged wrong 'un, but can't prove it in a way that her colleagues can see, so efforts to expose Verity make Maria look like the loose cannon. The cruel chaos smoothly ramps up, gradually revealing the twist before the narrative delivers an ending that will make you not laugh or chuckle, but very specifically cackle. The only skippable episode is Plaything, set in a near future where cops use DNA mouth swabs to solve crimes, and have an interrogation room built in a pleasing asymmetrical-lozenge shape. Inside sits a predictably excellent Peter Capaldi as a mercurial murder suspect who has spent his adult life playing a potent video game that is somewhere between Lemmings, The Sims and a Tamagotchi. What looks like a great first half is followed by … the end credits. The set-up is all there is, the idea doesn't go anywhere, our thumbs are down and Plaything is moved swiftly to the bin. Anthologies are a hard gig. But this warmer, more convincingly human Black Mirror is easier than ever to forgive. Black Mirror is on Netflix.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Netflix finally gives us more details about upcoming sci-fi epic
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Netflix knows it has something big on its hands in the form of a new season of Black Mirror, and its latest trailer finally shows us a bit more detail about the six stories we'll be able to explore when the new episodes arrives on 10 April. We've been given titles for each, along with quick blurbs to clue us into what to expect, and each one sounds like a potentially twisty and mind-bending sci-fi story. I'll take you through each in turn, why not? First up will be Common People, starring Rashida Jones and Chris O'Dowd. The latter will be left in a tough position when his wife's emergency care leaves him no option but to choose a sponsored option that runs ads through her – which is as horrifying as it sounds. Next, there's Bête Noire, centring on a young woman who becomes convinced that a colleague is manipulating her life in ways she can't quite prove. Image 1 of 5 Image 2 of 5 Image 3 of 5 Image 4 of 5 Image 5 of 5 Third will be Hotel Reverie, which sees Issa Rae entering a real-life dream world and encountering moral dilemmas when Emma Corrin, a phantom in the dream, tries to convince her that she's just as alive as anyone. Fourth is Plaything, which revolves around the idea that seemingly simplistic AI characters in a retro videogame might have developed collective consciousness and even started communicating with people. Fifth is Eulogy, which sees Paul Giamatti as a bereaved older man who uses some technology to enter his old photographs, stirring up questions about the grieving process and how technology can help or hinder it. Finally, the sixth episode is USS Callister: Into Infinity, which acts as a sequel to one of Black Mirror's most popular episodes. It picks up the story of the Callister crew as they attempt to survive with a galaxy full of players out to destroy them. That's quite a list, and you get a quick look at each one in the trailer embedded above – definitely give it a watch if you're keen for more Black Mirror in your life. Frankly, it's a marker of Netflix's position as one of the best streaming services on the market that it has this sort of show in the pipeline.
