I was excited to see that BlackMirror had dropped another season. Honestly, I've all but quit watching Netflix, but we retain it because my family still does.

One disappointment with Season 7 is that about half the time I'm ahead of the writing, meaning I know what's coming before it does. I've been wrong a few times, maybe two, where it went a different direction, but even then I was correct in feeling the shift coming. I think I've said this before here, but perhaps I've seen too much content, so the "twists and turns" become inevitable and predictable.

Another feature I noticed about this season, is that while it always introduces an interesting technology innovation, it feels like it's stuck there just for that point: to cause the audience to marvel. This season seems way less sinister, and more mundane. Perhaps it's too much to expect the wild ride that the earliest seasons contained. Perhaps I'm misremembering (and I don't care to go back and review).

One last thing, it seems to me that Netflix can't help but continue to insert ham-fisted cultural tropes that their production has/had become known for. Admittedly more subtle, they are certainly still there, distracting from stories that do not need or require them to be excellent.

I'm curious what others here may think about the development of this series....