The seventh season of Black Mirror was launched on Netflix in the present day (April 10), and followers have been having fun with the best way the opening episode, ‘Frequent Folks’, pokes enjoyable on the streaming platform’s subscription tiers.
- READ MORE: ‘Black Mirror’ season seven evaluate: Charlie Brooker’s twisted universe at its most absorbing
The episode revolves round instructor Amanda, performed by Rashida Jones, and welder Mike (Chris O’Dowd), as they battle to conceive a baby in a world through which a brand new experimental medical remedy from tech start-up Rivermind works like a subscription service.
When Amanda will get a mind tumour that leaves her in a coma, Mike’s informed by Gaynor (Tracee Ellis Ross), a Rivermind consultant, that the corporate could make a backup of the a part of her mind with the tumour, take away it, and substitute the unique a part of her mind with it.
Nevertheless, this artificial half is linked to the cloud and which means that the couple have to pay a month-to-month subscription to entry it – and have to remain in vary of Rivermind’s towers. With the essential bundle, they’ve to remain throughout the county, whereas Rivermind begins to air adverts via Amanda with out her realising.
This turns into a problem when she sells merchandise to her younger college students, however the one solution to cease the adverts is by upgrading to a costlier bundle, culminating within the couple resorting to ever-more determined measures.
Charlie Brooker writing the Frequent Folks episode of Black Mirror figuring out very effectively it satirises Netflix’s personal bullshit tiered subscription mannequin. pic.twitter.com/pnsipe6q2A
— Kyle Snape (@kylemsnape) April 10, 2025
The subscription tiers supplied by platforms like Netflix have continuously been criticised by customers, and lots of Black Mirror followers have praised the present, and creator Charlie Brooker, for satirising them. One wrote on X (previously Twitter), “The ‘Frequent Folks’ episode of Black Mirror is cheeky contemplating Netflix’s subscription tiers.”
One fan mentioned, “The ‘Frequent Folks’ of Black Mirror is definitely good. It’s simply sooooo ironic that Netflix made it lol,” whereas one other joked, “The decision is coming from inside the home.”
The Frequent Folks episode of #BlackMirror is cheeky contemplating Netflix’s subscription tiers 🤣
— cinderellers (@phoebeverse) April 10, 2025
The Frequent Folks of Black Mirror is definitely good. It is simply sooooo ironic that Netflix made it lol.
— Ash (@mighty_gray) April 10, 2025
Netflix making #BlackMirror – Frequent Folks is so ironic. That’s about YOU!! The decision is coming from inside the home pic.twitter.com/IYNj9fcVmT
— Cerulean Sorrengail (@Felicity_M2) April 10, 2025
Yet one more mentioned, “New Black Mirror episode ‘Frequent Folks’ is implausible… and having it interrupted by adverts for playing that includes mother and father giving beginning as a result of I solely have a fundamental Netflix subscription is a bit too… one thing…”
New Black Mirror episode ‘Frequent Folks’ is implausible… and having it interrupted by adverts for playing that includes mother and father giving beginning as a result of I solely have a fundamental Netflix subscription is a bit too… one thing… pic.twitter.com/tcqU0beVwE
— John Newsham (@jnewshamwriter) April 10, 2025
One other mentioned that the episode is a “reminder on how firms intentionally obtained everybody within the subscription labyrinth. ‘Yeah sorry it’s essential subscribe to the ++ bundle so as to use the total service’ or ‘pay to make use of w/o adverts’ regardless of making full cost initially.”
Black Mirror Frequent Folks episode is a reminder on how firms intentionally obtained everybody within the subscription labyrinth. “Yeah sorry it’s essential subscribe to the ++ bundle so as to use the total service” or ‘pay to make use of w/o adverts’ regardless of making full cost initially.
— Boy Willie (@Fatman003) April 10, 2025
NME’s James Mottram described the episode as a “very neat satire” as a part of a glowing five-star evaluate of the season. He added: “Brooker’s sharp-eyed intelligence and eerily prophetic lens on society can also be very a lot in tune. It’s not all concerning the twists both. These information episodes, particularly the cine-literate ‘Lodge Reverie’, benefit a second viewing – however that’s par for the course within the Brooker-verse. As they are saying within the remaining episode, “a tiger can’t change its stripes.”
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