"Common People," the thought-provoking opening episode of Black Mirror's seventh series, gets right to the point by reinstating the program's central tenet: the future is already happening, and it is

Black Mirror Season 7 starts off on an impressively depressing note with "Common People", a story about a woman forced to use a subscription service to stay alive. But what exactly happens at the end?

At its heart, “Common People” is a classic example of how Charlie Brooker and his writers have continued to break our hearts through fiction, so that it does not easily become fact. So having this be the premiere and “USS Callister Into Infinity” serve as the finale makes emotional sense.