"In Common People, Rashida Jones plays an ordinary woman drowning in medical debt. The episode coldly and accurately shows what happens when staying alive becomes financially unsustainable,” one "Black Mirror" viewer on X aptly said of the episode.

The second Rivermind Lux ends, Amanda begins yet another ad (this time for antidepressants), revealing one of two things: Rivermind Plus now has ads too or, as the title suggests, they are “common people” and needed to downgrade to Rivermind Common.

Black Mirror is back, and this time, with a not-so-far off dystopia of subscription hell. “Common People,” season 7, episode 1, sits in familiar territory, at the intersection of technology and capitalism.