Season 7 of Black Mirror is out into the world, and most people have already binge-watched the six episodes in the past two days. However, some people may have outright skipped the bleak first episode, “Common People,” and some people may have just skipped to the last episode of the new season, the long-awaited sequel to the fan-favorite Season 4 episode, “USS Callister.”
“USS Callister: Into Infinity” is a feature-length episode that feels like the most accessible and flat-out entertaining episode that Black Mirror has done, and ends in a wild way. If you haven’t finished the episode yet, you may want to come back after you have, because MovieWeb spoke with Cristin Milioti (who plays Nanette Cole in “USS Callister: Into Infinity” and the original) at a press roundtable, and she went in depth about the ending.
“What I like about this ending, just in terms of my own taste of what I watch, what’s really great about what Charlie makes is that you could say it’s kind of happy; technically they’re out of that situation, but I think they’re in an equally horrifying situation. It’s just the circumstances are so completely different,” said Milioti of the ending, in which the crew of the USS Callister are stuck in Cole’s consciousness. She continued:
“I hope that it makes you feel uneasy. Like, their lives aren’t at risk, but I don’t know, do you want to live like that? Do you want to live trapped in one room, having to see someone, you know, go to the bathroom every day? So they still have no agency. And then she now has this thing that could also drive you crazy. And she doesn’t seem […] super-motivated to get them out of there anymore. Like, what does that mean? How is this person — who’s now had these experiences, the trauma of two different people in this body — how does this person walk through the world? So I like that it’s kind of creepy and twisted, for lack of a better word.”
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“She does quote-unquote the right thing,” added Milioti. “Although you could argue, like, is that the right thing? Should she get out of there and then just delete them so that this can end for them too? I don’t know. It’s a real quandary.” Will Black Mirror fans see what happens next with the Callister crew? “We haven’t had any discussions about a third as of now,” confirmed Milioti.
Robert Daly Is God at the Center of Infinity
The epic and surreal garage sequence at the end of “USS Callister: Into Infinity” is one for the books. While torturous Infinity creator Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons, making his return) dies at the end of the original episode, there’s a cloned copy of himself inside the game he created, using his omniscient powers to continue expanding the game. With little time to lose, Nanette Cole enters his space to try and get his help in creating a world just for the crew of the USS Callister, but Daly is Daly, and his worst impulses eventually come out.
“She is meeting the person who has ruined her life, but understands that she’s dealing with a loose cannon, with a ticking time bomb, and that she has to somehow placate him while swallowing her own rage,” explained Milioti. “Also, she has to get in and get out, and she has to have him do this, and she doesn’t know what his powers are. That stuff is so much fun to explore.” Milioti went on:
“It’s just fun to play with those types of stakes and also the subtext of that. There are so many parallels to their dynamic from the first one in this revisiting of them, but there are also some key differences as well. And she’s a different person now. I just had so much fun exploring that, and even that set, that garage was as claustrophobic to shoot in as it looks. It was like a true garage that we were trapped in for four days, working on that extremely intense, high-stakes scene. And it was just really cool. You know when you read things like that as an actor, I just got so excited to get in there. So it was really cool.”
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Milioti also shared why this new iteration of Robert Daly is even more threatening to her and the Callister crew this time around. “He has God-like powers. In the first one, he certainly could play God with us, but there was maybe a chance that — obviously, this didn’t happen — in the real world, someone could have gotten through to him somehow. Now that I’m talking it through, this one is scarier because he’s completely isolated. There is no respite. You could see a world in that first episode where he would meet someone, like make a friend; someone could help him get through this crippling loneliness. And I think in the second one, he’s been in solitary confinement for however many years or whatever. And so I think you’re dealing with a much different person.”
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Black Mirror – Season 7
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- Release Date
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April 10, 2025
- Network
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Channel 4, Netflix
- Showrunner
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Charlie Brooker
- Directors
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Ally Pankiw, Toby Haynes, David Slade, Haolu Wang, Chris Barrett, Luke Taylor
- Writers
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Bisha K. Ali, William Bridges, Bekka Bowling, Ella Road, Charlie Brooker
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