Black Mirror Season 7: ‘USS Callister’ Sequel Delivers

Warning: This publish accommodates spoilers for Episode 6 of Black Mirror Season 7.

Once we final noticed the crew of the USS Callister, that they had lastly managed to flee the clutches of their sadistic commander, Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), by slipping by a wormhole in area that transported them to a different dimension. Their new chief, Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti), then assumed her rightful place within the captain’s chair and the ship sped off into hyperwarp.

After all, all of this was taking place contained in the massively multiplayer on-line recreation Infinity whereas the real-world counterparts of the Callister crew had been going about their each day lives working on the firm behind the sport, Callister Inc. Solely head Infinity programmer Daly, who had created a modified offline construct of the space-set digital actuality program wherein he was torturing sentient clones of his coworkers, was conscious of their digital avatars’ existence. This twist was the crux of the unique Emmy-winning “USS Callister” episode of Black Mirror, which premiered to rave evaluations in 2017 because the opener of the sequence’ fourth season.

Now, the Callister crew is again for a feature-length sequel that gives a satisfying conclusion to Season 7 of creator Charlie Brooker’s darkly satirical sci-fi anthology sequence. Titled “USS Callister: Into Infinity,” the episode picks up with Nanette and her remaining colleagues—Nate (Osy Ikhile), Kabir (Paul G. Raymond), Elena (Milanka Brooks), and Karl (Billy Magnussen)—struggling to outlive inside the wider recreation of Infinity months after leaving Daly to die in his now-deleted non-public universe (a growth that additionally led to his loss of life in the actual world). The gamertag-less Callister crew has resorted to stealing credit from Infinity gamers to be able to afford provides which have been monetized and price-jacked by Callister Inc. CEO James Walton (Jimmi Simpson) to extend firm earnings. Nonetheless, not like regular gamers, the clones can truly be injured and killed. Their scavenging exploits have additionally led to complaints of nameless bandits inside the recreation and a New York Instances reporter starting to suspect the reality about Daly’s use of unlawful cloning know-how.

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Understanding they can not go on like this eternally, the crew comes up with a plan to create their very own non-public construct by accessing the sport’s supply code inside the so-called “Heart of Infinity,” an engine on the heart of the universe that retains the entire thing operating. Nonetheless, out in the actual world, authentic Nanette has put the items of the puzzle collectively to determine the rogue gamers are literally likenesses of herself and her coworkers, together with Walton (whose clone is revealed to have respawned inside Infinity after he sacrificed himself to save lots of his mates on the finish of the primary episode). She shares this info with Walton and the 2 determine to enter the sport to see what is going on on for themselves. Solely, Nanette is unaware Walton has an ulterior motive.

We study that after Walton recruited a then-seemingly good-natured Daly to develop Infinity out of his storage 12 years earlier, the 2 ended up utilizing the aforementioned cloning know-how to add a model of Daly into the sport who may spend eternity increasing the its universe from contained in the core. Walton subsequently desires to kill the clones to maintain from being uncovered for his unlawful practices and getting thrown in jail. After discovering his true intentions, Nanette plans to cease Walton however is hit by a automotive and left in a coma.

Walton reenters the sport and manages to alert all of the gamers the Callister crew robbed to the situation of their ship simply as clone Nanette makes her means into the Coronary heart of Infinity to confront Daly. He places her by a bit morality check that she passes after which gives to each add her consciousness into the thoughts of her now-brain-dead real-world counterpart and duplicate and paste her crew into a brand new universe—that’s, so long as this model of her agrees to stick with him for eternity. It is a second that touches on the sinister logic behind “nice guy syndrome” simply as the primary episode explored themes of poisonous masculinity and male entitlement.