Cristin Milioti broke out in a big way last year by playing mob heiress Sofia Falcone in The Penguin, but if you're a fan of Netflix's sci-fi anthology show Black Mirror, you already knew her. In the show's fourth season, she played Nanette, an employee at a video game company who's DNA was borrowed without her consent by her boss (Jesse Plemons), who then used it to create a digital copy of Nanette. In fact, he did that with several coworkers, whom he recast as crew members on the USS Callister. Inside a digital world, he used these people to play out his Star Trek fantasies.
The resulting episode, "USS Callister," was a disturbing, hilarious story about high tech slavery. It was so popular that the upcoming seventh season of Black Mirror will feature a direct sequel episode, something the show has never done before. Milioti will return as Nanette, who's wearing a much more dignified outfit this time around. Netflix gave fans a glimpse of her in a new preview video:
First pic of The Penguin star Cristin Milioti returning to the USS Callister in Black Mirror season 7 pic.twitter.com/kkrORa0qJX
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In addition to Milioti, Jimmi Simpson and Billy Magnusson will return from the original episode for this sequel. Other cast members in Black Mirror season 7 include Emma Corrin, Paul Giamatti, Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Rashida Jones, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross and Chris O'Dowd. But remember: every episode of Black Mirror has a different cast playing out a different story about technology run amok, so those folks won't show up in the "USS Callister" sequel episode.
People were already going to watch a sequel to "USS Callister," one of the most beloved Black Mirror episodes yet produced. Unlike a lot of the episodes, this one actually had a sorta-kinda happy ending, although I wonder if that will last. And Cristin Milioti's scene-stealing turn as Sofia Falcone can only help. We don't know exactly when Black Mirror season 7 will drop on Netflix, but it'll be sometime this year.
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