– As Joe watches the news program about the rail crash, the news crawl at the bottom of the screen reads, “MP Liam Monroe claims Twitter account was hacked.” Monroe (Tobias Menzies) was the main political candidate opposing Waldo. – One of the voyeurs watching Harry date is named “I_AM_WALDO.” – Joe’s holding cell at the end has the White Bear symbol on the name plate. – As Joe watches the news program about the rail crash, the news crawl at the bottom of the screen reads, “Victoria Skillane appeal bid rejected.” Skillane was the woman being elaborately tortured as part of her sentencing after having participated in killing a young girl. – Bethany uses a pregnancy test that has the same happy baby animation indicator on it as the one used by Hayley Atwell’s character Martha. The series speaks to the larger contemporary issues of the constantly increasing dependency society has on it. – While Joe Potter watches TV, he catches a glimpse of the show “Hot Shot.” Right after, he learns that the woman he loves has died in a rail crash. From National Anthem all the way to its most recent installment, season 5, episode 3, Striking Vipers, Black Mirror ensures that each character displays some form of dependency, fear, or unquestionable trust in some form of technology. – One of the voyeurs watching Harry date is named “Pie Ape,” which is one of the insults used by someone referring to overweight people who are shunned in the “Fifteen Million Merits” world. – The song “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)” heard in the karaoke scene is the same song Abi Khan sang for her “Hot Shot” audition in “Fifteen Million Merits.” – Erica McEwan’s name can be seen again on a Twitter feed. – Backstage on the set of the Waldo show, some mentions, “People believe some crazy things, I mean ABBA believed in angels!” On “Hot Shot,” Selma sang ABBA’s “I Have a Dream,” which includes the chorus lyrics “I believe in angels.” – Jessica Brown Findlay’s character Abi Khan is seen on a billboard next to a Waldo ad. One is written by Erica McEwan who shares the same name as “Black Mirror’s” graphic art director. – When Martha is mourning the loss of her husband Ash, she sees three books about grieving in her email. – The headline, “Geraint Fitch cleared of wrongdoing following paparazzi scuffle,” is the same exact headline seen on TV during “The National Anthem.” This will be repeated throughout the series to the point we won’t mention it again. – The UKN news channel is the same one seen in the very first episode of the series. The top-left touts the premiere of 15 Million Merits, though the actual title of the show from the Season 1 episode called “Fifteen Million Merits” was Hot Shots.The list is in chronological order by episode, so for those who want to check out the lists for the newest episodes first, here are the direct links the Season 3 Easter eggs and Season 4 Easter eggs. The “One Smart Cookie” advertisement in the top right references both the consciousness replicating cookies and the kitchen that traps main character Joe in “White Christmas.” The middle bar says Prime Minister Michael Callow from “The National Anthem” is getting a divorce (his wife must have been really turned off by his pig-doinking), while the bottom-right references the ongoing trial of Victoria Skillane, the woman forced to relive the same day in “White Bear” as punishment for murdering a child. The racist CEO caught up in the anonymous troll game looks at a news page featuring easter eggs from four previous Black Mirror episodes. “ Shut Up and Dance” is absolutely jam-packed with easter eggs, seemingly all from one computer screen. "Shut Up and Dance" takes place post-"White Bear" and "The National Anthem" and pre-"Fifteen Million Merits". Indeed, there are plenty of funny little nods to older episodes in the new season, which we have collected here for those willing to go down a very twisted rabbit hole. “It’s a nice bonus for people who have been watching the other stories.” It adds to the dreamlike quality,” he told said. Sometimes we do it because we love dropping in things. Sometimes we deliberately draw a direct link between episodes. When reporters brought it up to Brooker himself during a conference call on Thursday, he suggested that there is indeed a connective tissue running through the show. “I think for him, they’re not.”Īnd yet, as with everything else connected with Black Mirror, it’s not exactly that cut and dry. When Inverse spoke with Dan Trachtenberg, the director of Season 3 episode “Playtest,” he confirmed as much: “I often asked Charlie if all the episodes were set in the same reality as different slices of the same future of ours,” Trachtenberg said. And for the most part, that is indeed the case. Charlie Brooker’s show Black Mirror is an anthology series, which means that each episode presents standalone tales that ostensibly shouldn’t be connected to each other.
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