“And the world is in a place at the moment where I think maybe people appreciate things that aren’t so unremittingly horrible.
“We’ve got one that’s overtly comic, much more overtly comic than anything we’ve don,” he explained.
Black Mirror season 4 is in production right now, with an official Netflix release date yet to be announced.
“I do think that at the moment, as we’re doing new episodes, there’s a limit to how much constant nihilistic bleakness I can take,” he told The Telegraph.