Warning! This text comprises spoilers for Black Mirror season 7.
Black Mirror season 7, like its predecessors, is jampacked with many refined and clear references to different installments within the collection that draw consideration to the present’s recurring themes and interconnected universes. Within the sci-fi style, Black Mirror has etched its id as an experimental anthology collection as a result of it dares to introduce a weird set of applied sciences with every episode to spotlight humanity’s poisonous relationship with innovation and obsession with management. Owing to this strategy, the Netflix sci-fi TV show‘s episodes often have a standalone narrative.
The one exception to this rule has been “USS Callister,” which is the primary Black Mirror episode to get a sequel installment in season 7. Though no different episodes have gotten follow-ups, sequels, and even spin-offs, they usually appear to cross-reference each other in additional methods than one. As a substitute of ending this pattern, season 7 appears to double down on it, weaving many deliberate nods and Easter eggs that join its episodes with many earlier ones.
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Amanda Mentions Autonomous Bees From “Hated In The Nation”
Episode 1, “Frequent Individuals”
Rashida Jones’ Amanda in Black Mirror season 7’s episode 1, “Common People,” is portrayed as a faculty instructor. Throughout one in every of her classes, she briefly talks about autonomous bees, which appears to be a direct reference to season 3’s remaining episode, “Hated In The Nation.” Within the episode, Autonomous Drone Bugs (ADIs) are deployed to counter environmental disaster after bees practically attain extinction. This reference to the episode has prompted many viewers to theorize that Amanda’s mind tumor was additionally doubtless attributable to a bee getting lodged in her mind.
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Black Mirror season 7’s first episode, “Frequent Individuals”, has a small however very proficient forged, with well-known actors from a really totally different style.
The high-tech artificial mind system in “Frequent Individuals” can solely be put in in these with extreme mind accidents. For the reason that complete strategy of monitoring down people with mind accidents after which pitching them to expertise wouldn’t be too cost-effective, it’s potential that the autonomous bees from “Hated within the Nation” have been used to assault the brains of a number of people. The individuals with broken brains have been then manipulated into paying for the subscription mannequin of the artificial mind expertise.
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Amanda & Mike Go to The Juniper
Episode 1, “Frequent Individuals”
Amanda and Mike’s favourite restaurant in Black Mirror‘s “Frequent Individuals” episode is The Juniper. Whereas this might purely be coincidental, the restaurant’s identify appears a bit too just like the title of one in every of Black Mirror‘s most extremely acclaimed episodes, “San Junipero.”
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A Theater Performs “Lodge Reverie”
Episode 1, “Frequent Individuals”
“Lodge Reverie” serves because the third episode in Black Mirror season 7. The episode primarily revolves round an actor who stars in a remake of a traditional romance film by appearing in an AI-simulated actuality. Eagle-eyed viewers might need seen that Amanda and Mike drive previous a theater in episode 1, which appears to be enjoying the film “Lodge Reverie” from episode 3.
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“Anybody Who Is aware of What Love Is (Will Perceive)” Has Been Used In Many Episodes
Episode 1, “Frequent Individuals”
When Amanda and Mike go to The Juniper in episode 1, they discover a couple singing Irma Thomas’s “Anybody Who Is aware of What Love Is” dwell. This isn’t the primary time Black Mirror has featured this music. Earlier than “Frequent Individuals,” many episodes like “Joan is Terrible,” “Males Towards Fireplace,” and “White Christmas” have additionally performed the identical observe in numerous capacities as their background scores.
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“Ditta” Is A Recurring Title
Episode 1, “Frequent Individuals”
Amanda promotes the honey candies from an organization referred to as Ditta in episode 1. In Black Mirror season 7’s episode 2, “Bête Noire,” Ditta seems to be the corporate Maria works in. Even a merchandising machine within the hospital the place Amanda is later admitted has the model’s identify imprinted on it, establishing a transparent connection between episodes 1 and a pair of’s narratives.
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A Tuckersoft Constructing Can Be Seen Close to Ditta
Episode 2, “Bête Noire”
In Black Mirror‘s spin-off choose-your-own-adventure film, Bandersnatch, an organization referred to as Tuckersoft was featured. The identical firm has additionally been beforehand talked about a number of occasions in passing all through the collection. Season 7’s episode 2 clearly options the corporate’s constructing, establishing that each Tuckersoft and Ditta exist in the identical universe.
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WayHaven Journey Lodge Is Briefly Displayed
Episode 2, “Bête Noire”
Black Mirror season 7’s episode 2 provides a glimpse of Verity’s work expertise by that includes her LinkedIn profile for a number of seconds. Her profession background reveals she additionally labored at WayHaven Journey resort, which was talked about in Black Mirror season 3’s episode 3, “Shut Up and Dance.”
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Bernie’s Rooster Will get A Mandela Impact Title Change
Episode 2, “Bête Noire”
Bernie’s Rooster, a restaurant chain, has been talked about in a number of Black Mirror episodes: “Joan is Terrible,” Shut Up and Dance,” “White Christmas,” and “Steel Head.” In season 7’s episode 2, Verity deliberately shifts her actuality to change the restaurant’s identify to “Barnies” simply to have the ability to win a debate about its spelling in her workplace.
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Joan Is Terrible’s Quantum Computing System Will get A Nod
Episode 2, “Bête Noire”
In the direction of the ending moments of “Bête Noire,” Verity claims to have used a “quantum compiler” to have the ability to shift realities. The gadget she refers to appears to be the identical quantum computing gadget that Streamberry makes use of on the titular character in “Joan is Terrible.”
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A Character Dons A House Fleet T-Shirt
Episode 3, “Lodge Reverie”
A employee within the management room of the central film in “Lodge Reverie” appears to be carrying a House Fleet t-shirt. House Fleet is a fictional TV collection within the Black Mirror universe that impressed Jesse Plemon’s Robert Daly to create the central online game in “USS Callister.” Robert additionally dons a House Fleet t-shirt when Nanette encounters him on the Coronary heart of Infinity in Black Mirror season 7’s “USS Callister: Into Infinity.”
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Lodge Reverie Reborn Streams On Streamberry
Episode 3, “Lodge Reverie”
The titular film from Black Mirror season 7’s episode 3, Lodge Reverie Reborn, finally ends up releasing on the fictional streaming platform, Streamberry. Streamberry was launched in Black Mirror season 6’s episode 1, “Joan Is Terrible.” The Netflix sci-fi present additionally later featured it once more in season 6’s “Loch Henry” episode, by which a documentary created by the primary character ended up on the fictional streamer.
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Loch Henry’s Pia Will get Namedropped
Episode 3, “Lodge Reverie”
Filmmaker Pia meets a harrowing destiny towards the ending moments of Black Mirror season 6’s “Loch Henry” episode. “Lodge Reverie” drops a hidden reference to her characterization by displaying how Brandy watches a video uploaded on Pia’s official YouTube channel.
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Tuckersoft Pulls Many A String In The Black Mirror Universe
Episode 3, “Lodge Reverie”
Tuckersoft, additionally written as “TCKR,” has been established because the electronics manufacturing firm in a number of Black Mirror installments, like “Bandersnatch,” “Playtest,” and “San Junipero.” Even in season 7’s episode 3, the corporate is revealed to be the creator of the computer systems which can be used to develop the titular movie.
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Brandy Receives A “Junipero” Bundle
Episode 3, “Lodge Reverie”
Kimmy sends a bundle to Brandy at her house in Black Mirror season 7’s episode 3. The bundle explicitly mentions Brandy’s house handle as “Junipero Drive.” This turns into one other stable callback to the present’s famend “San Junipero” episode.
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Posters To Many In-Universe Video games Can Be Noticed
Episode 4, “Plaything”
Since “Plaything” serves as a unfastened follow-up to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, it options many parts from the film, together with Will Poluter’s Colin Ritman and the overarching Tuckersoft firm.
The episode additionally reveals a poster of Bandersnatch II, hinting at how the sequel of the darkish sport from the choose-your-own-adventure film is in improvement at Tuckersoft. Equally, a poster of Hanging Vipers II additionally briefly seems on a wall, which serves because the sequel to the sport Anthony Mackie’s character performs in Black Mirror season 5’s episode 1.
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The Firm That Developed The Playtest Recreation Will get A Nod
Episode 6, “USS Callister: Into Infinity”
When Nanette meets Jesse Plemons’ Daly once more within the Coronary heart of Infinity, he’s surrounded by House Fleet merchandise, which evokes him to maintain growing his sport. A better take a look at one in every of his racks, nonetheless, reveals a field with the identify “SaitoGemu.“ This occurs to be the identical firm that assessments its harmful immersive gaming expertise on American globetrotter, Cooper, in Black Mirror season 3’s episode 2, “Playtest.”
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Nanette Ends Up In The St. Juniper Hospital
Episode 6, “USS Callister: Into Infinity”
After Daly traces down Nanette’s human model, he learns that she ended up in a hospital referred to as St. Juniper after an accident. This continues the present’s pattern of referring to the “San Junipero” episode via varied fictional location names.
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A Information Ticker Refers To Many In-Universe Occasions
Episode 6, “USS Callister: Into Infinity”
The closing moments of “USS Callister: Into Infinity” function a information channel’s screening on a tv, which reveals all the costs Walton’s human model has been arrested for. The information ticker on the backside of the tv display screen throughout this sequence contains a vary of references to earlier Black Mirror episodes. A few of them are as follows:
- Lodge Reverie’s official launch announcement on Streamberry.
- The invention of the talisman from “Demon 79.”
- PM Michael Callow (from “The Nationwide Anthem”) getting into Movie star Vet Faculty.
- RiverMind CTO, from “Frequent Individuals,” stepping down from their place.
