Could it be?
After what felt like an eternity, the fourth season of
Black Mirror hit our televisions, laptops, tablets and phones last year.
And there were plenty of jaw-dropping moments in store throughout the six episodes - which left fans, understandably, wanting more.
The series was renewed for a fifth season on the streaming service earlier this year, and we've been waiting for news on a release date ever since.
And it looks like Charlie Brooker's tech series
may be back sooner than we thought - by the end of the month, to be exact.
A since-deleted tweet said to be from @NXonNetflix - the social media hub for everything super, sci-fi, the fantastic, and beyond - hints that something called
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch will be released on December 28.
Whether
Bandersnatch is the title of an episode (
the choose your own adventure one, maybe?) or some kind of theme of the series (à la
American Horror Story) is not clear.
https://twitter.com/langdonsslut/status/1068262868330651649
And, actually, it could all just be one big hoax. After all, what better way to trick fans of the tech-obsessed fans of the show?
Even it's
not an actual release date it's looking likely that we'll see the return of
Black Mirror some time late in the year - either 2018 or 2019 (fingers crossed).
The two series' commissioned by Netflix - 3 and 4 - were released in the later half of the year, with seasons 3 making it out in October 2016 and season 4 released in December 2017.
So it seems a surefire bet that season 5 will be out soon(ish).
It's also unclear how many episodes there will be in the anthology's fifth season.
While seasons 1 and 2 had just three episodes each (and then there was the one-off Christmas special), the straight-to-
Netflix episodes were meant to be a 12-episode season.
The 12 episode order later got divided into two separate six episode seasons, so we're remaining hopeful that season 5 will bring just as many eerie tales.