Revisiting Black Mirror Season 6's key plot points shortly before the 7th chapter premieres

The much-awaited Black Mirror Season 7 is almost here, and it's going to play games with our minds all over again. The sci-fi anthology show is famous for presenting new stories and characters in every episode, like a mini movie each time.

Season 6 in 2023 provided the audience and fans with a new twist on its signature dark theme. The episodes mix sick stories about technology with moral and psychological dilemmas.

While previous seasons were largely content to hang out in dark, dystopian futures of our world dominated by technology, this season expands its narrative by going back to historical eras and contemporary settings, too.

What this creates is a blend of unsettling sci-fi and reality, held together by its emphasis on how humans abuse the tools that they build. Whether it's contemporary AI or something older and more mystical.

While Black Mirror Season 6 aims to explain how technology and media can disconnect people from each other, the series stays focused on highlighting that humans often misunderstand or abuse the very things they invent.

Keep reading to explore the major events in Season 6 before diving into the upcoming new chapter on Netflix.

What happened in Black Mirror Season 6: Here's A quick recap before Season 7 arrives

As previously mentioned, Black Mirror Season 7 will hit our screens soon, as it has been scheduled to premiere on April 10, 2025. In case you need a reminder of how things went down last season, here's a recap of all episodes in Black Mirror Season 6:

Episode 1 "Joan is Awful"

Salma Hayek helps Joan (Image Source: Netflix)

The series kicks off with the first episode titled "Joan is Awful," in which a woman named Joan learns that her everyday life has been turned into a streaming show. When Joan and others watch the show for the first time, everyone is packed to see how they have been portrayed and how a company can get permission for such a thing.

As seen in the episode, Joan suffers a panic attack while watching Salma Hayek playing Joan in the TV show. She then learns that the actress never filmed the scenes. Instead, she just gave permission to use her image. This means the series is purely CGI.

Later, the real Salma Hayek teams up with the real Joan to destroy the machine. As the episode reaches its end, they destroy the machine generating the content, the computer that creates alternate versions of people.

This wipes out those simulated worlds, but Joan is left with the consequences. She later opens a coffee shop and maintains a friendship with the actress who played her.

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Episode 2 "Loch Henry"

Episode 2 focuses on Davis and Pia (Image Source: Netflix)

A couple, Davis and Pia, visit his hometown in Scotland to film a documentary. They plan to focus on nature but end up uncovering an old serial killer case. While investigating, Pia discovers tapes that show that Davis's own parents were involved in the murders alongside the killer.

After the truth comes out, Davis's mother dies by suicide. Later in the Black Mirror episode, Davis turns the horrifying discovery into a film, which goes on to win a major award, but he’s left emotionally destroyed.

Episode 3 "Beyond the Sea"

Aaron Paul in Episode 3 (Image Source: Netflix)

Based on a timeline of 1969, two astronauts, Cliff and David, are living on a space mission but utilize artificial bodies on Earth so that they can maintain their relationships with their families. David's family is killed by a cult.

He becomes consumed by grief and starts using Cliff's body to spend time on Earth, even developing a relationship with Cliff's wife. Things degenerate when David, out of pain and jealousy, murders Cliff's wife and child. The Black Mirror Season 6 episode concludes with the two men alone in space, together on a ship, but with broken lives.

Episode 4 "Mazey Day"

A still for Episode 4 (Image Source: Netflix)

This one breaks from future technology and travels back to 2006. Bo is a celebrity photographer (a paparazzo) who's grappling with the ethics of her profession. She finds out that Mazey Day, a well-known actress, has disappeared after being involved in a hit-and-run. There is a large cash reward for the first photo of Mazey, so Bo goes after the story.

She finally catches up with Mazey at a rehab facility. But Mazey is no typical patient, she's been chained in solitary confinement. And, in a twist of fate, Mazey becomes a werewolf under the light of the moon. She escapes and embarks on a killing rampage, eliminating the rest of the paparazzi who had tailed Bo. Bo gets out alive and finally finds Mazey in human form, covered in blood and near death.

The Black Mirror episode nears its end when Mazey pleads with Bo to put an end to her misery. Bo complies and captures a photo of her at the time of her death, mingling horror, tragedy, and the darker aspects of media sensationalism.

Episode 5 "Demon 79"

Season 6 ends with another chilling story (Image Source: Netflix)

Based in 1979 Northern England, the tale in Black Mirror Season 6 Episode 5 centers on Nida, a reserved and introverted South Asian female shoe shop worker who feels invisible and suffers from everyday racism and isolation. During a shift at work, she stumbles upon a mysterious talisman that unwittingly unleashes a demon named Gaap.

Disguised as a flamboyant disco pop star, Gaap informs her that the world is going toward doomsday and the way to prevent that is by assassinating three people. This leaves Nida in shock.

But as she delves deeper into her first two victims, she learns they're seriously bad people. But executing them makes her conflicted and remorseful. Her last target is a menacing politician whose ideology can hurt a lot of people.

Before Nida could kill him, the police apprehended her, and Gaap was threatened. As nuclear war erupts and the world collapses, Gaap informs her that she really did try to stop it.

Ultimately, with no hope remaining in the actual world, Nida decides to accompany Gaap into a strange infinite abyss. It's not certain whether it's hell or some other place, as the Black Mirror episode concluded.