'Black Mirror' season 3 news: Creator talks season 3 twists, recalls Donald Trump-esque character

The six episodes of the edgy and thought-provoking "Black Mirror" season 3 dropped Friday, Oct. 21, offering viewers new ways of looking at the future of society and the perils of technology.

The third season of Netflix's new dark anthology, which aired its first two seasons on the U.K.'s Channel 4, consisted of the episodes "Nosedive," "Playtest," "Shut Up and Dance," "San Junipero," "Men Against Fire," and "Hated in the Nation."

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, "Black Mirror" creator Charlie Brooker explained the various twists in some of the season 3 episodes.

In "Nosedive," the first episode, "Jurassic World" star Bryce Dollas Howard played Lacie, a woman living in a world where people are given numerical ratings a la Uber. These numerical ratings, which fluctuate by the minute, dictate almost every aspect of peoples' lives. While the character initially lived her life trying to please everyone and aiming for a good rating, Lacie eventually cracks, attacks Paul (Alan Ritchson) with a knife, and is sent to prison.

But while Lacie ends up losing her freedom, Brooker said that the character is actually freer than she ever was. "There she is in jail, but she's finally free," he told EW. "Again, this is one with some hope. We throw you off a bit there," he added.

Brooker also talked about the ending of "Shut Up and Dance," which found Kenny (Alex Lawther) getting sucked into an online trap and having to ally himself with the dubious Hector (Jerome Flynn). In this episode, the protagonist is revealed to be a collector of child pornography.

"It's ambiguous, isn't it?" Brooker asked. "Your empathy for him drains away. You look at him fresh," he continued.

"It was such a horrible reveal it was irresistible, and it helped explain why he was going along with everything," he said.

While the "Black Mirror" episodes typically reflect real-life issues and current social ills, one episode now stands out for its seeming prescience.

In the show's second season, an episode called "The Waldo Moment" revolved around a cartoon character running for office. According to Brooker, while he used to think that he didn't get the episode right, he now sees that it somehow foreshadowed the rise of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

"[I]f you look at that now, it's really quite terrifying," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "It's more prescient than I realized. He's an anti-politics candidate who's raucous and defensive, and that's all he is, and he offers nothing."

"Black Mirror" season 3 is streaming now on Netflix.