There is an expansive list of guest starts in trailers released this week to promote new seasons of two beloved series, and Awkwafina is on both of them.

Netflix dropped the trailer for Black Mirror, which as always, teased a star-studded group of guest stars for its upcoming six-episode season. This season, the show’s seventh, of Black Mirror features, as they all do, tales of technology gone awry, with disastrous consequences for someone.

Awkwafina appears in the trailer as a person monitoring what seem to be players in a virtual reality program. Season 7 will offer two episodes serving as sequels to earlier episodes: “USS Callister” from season 4, and the choose-your-own-adventure “Bandersnatch,” a stand-alone release from 2018.

Awkwafina in Black Mirror. Image courtesy Netflix.

Also appearing in the trailer, set to a minor key version of “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” are Will Poulter, Awkwafina, Milanka Brooks, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Paul Giamatti, Lewis Gribben, Rashida Jones, Siena Kelly, Billy Magnussen, Cristin Milioti, Chris O’Dowd, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jimmi Simpson, Michele Austin, Ben Bailey Smith, Asim Chaudry and Harriet Walter, to name a few.

Image courtesy Netflix.

Black Mirror season 7 will debut on Netflix on April 10th.

Over on Peacock, a trailer for the Rian Johnson-produced Poker Face, starring Natasha Lyonne dropped, and Awkwafina is featured there as well, in a costume that’s very different from what she is sporting in the Black Mirror trailer.

Image courtesy NBC/Universal.

The teaser for season 2 of Poker Face, about an unlikely Las Vegas-based drifter who uses her strange gift of always knowing when a person is lying to solve mysteries, is much shorter but seems to pack the same amount of star power.

Awkwafina is joined by Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito, Method Man, Justin Theroux, Taylor Schilling, Melanie Lynskey, Kumail Nanjiani, Alia Shawkat, B.J. Novak, Carol Kane, Corey Hawkins, David Alan Grier, David Krumholtz, Ego Nwodim, Gaby Hoffmann, Geraldine Viswanathan, Haley Joel Osment, Jason Ritter, John Cho, Kevin Corrigan, Lauren Tom, Lili Taylor, Margo Martindale, Natasha Leggero, Patti Harrison, Rhea Perlman, Richard Kind, Sam Richardson, Sherry Cola, Simon Helberg, and Simon Rex for the Columbo– like episodic series.

Natasha Lyonne and Cynthia Erivo in Poker Face.
Image courtesy NBC/Universal.

Poker Face fans will have to wait until May 8th to get their next fix of the show.

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