Every Black Mirror Easter Egg in Season 7

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By now, most viewers know Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror takes place in an interconnected universe in which characters watch the same shows on Streamberry, play games designed by Tuckersoft, and order food from Barnies. In almost every episode, Brooker and his writers drop Easter eggs for the most loyal fans who love to consider how far away we are from some of the future tech on this show actually existing (the answer: not far). The seventh season, now on Netflix, continues the tradition with some obvious nods to other episodes next to Easter eggs that only hardcore fans will catch. Here are all the ones we’ve caught so far (let us know in the comments what we might have missed).

Massive spoilers abound.

“Common People”

• The name of the restaurant that Mike (Chris O’Dowd) and Amanda (Rashida Jones) go to every year on their anniversary, the Juniper, is a clear nod to the episode “San Junipero.”

• One of the most recurring connections across all seven seasons of Black Mirror has been the song “Anyone Who Know What Love Is (Will Understand),” which first appeared way back in “Fifteen Million Merits” and repeated in “White Christmas,” “Men Against Fire,” “Crocodile,” “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too,” and last season’s “Joan Is Awful.” This season, a couple sings it at the Juniper.

• Amanda teaches young kids about autonomous bees, which may seem random until you remember they’re the focus of season three’s “Hated in the Nation.”

• The vending machine in the hospital lobby where Gaynor (Tracee Ellis Ross) sells Mike on Rivermind mentions Ditta, an advance Easter egg to the company at which most of “Bête Noire” takes place.

• Amanda and Mike drive past a movie theater that’s playing Hotel Reverie, the film from this season’s third episode.

• One of Amanda’s “advertisements” for Honey Nugs notes that they’re made by Ditta, another nod to the next chapter.

• When Amanda and Mike meet with Gaynor about Amanda’s condition, you can just barely see an office for Skillane Legal across the hall, which is a reference to a reference: The law firm was featured in “Joan Is Awful,” and the name is a nod to Victoria Skillane, the protagonist of season two’s “White Bear.” Rivermind probably gets sued a lot.

• One of the users who pays to get Mike to put a mousetrap on his tongue is “I_AM_Waldo,” probably a reference to season two’s “The Waldo Moment” and not the guy in the striped sweater.

“Bête Noire”

• It will play a crucial role later in the episode when Verity (Rosy McEwen) shifts reality to alter its name, but there’s an early glimpse of a hat belonging to Maria’s (Siena Kelly) boyfriend for Barnies, a restaurant that popped up in four previous episodes: “White Christmas,” “Shut Up and Dance,” “Metalhead,” and “Joan Is Awful.” Barnies, not Bernies. Or … well, maybe Bernies. Leave it to Brooker to play games with viewers as some are getting these plot points in reverse, with Maria’s boyfriend working at Bernies and Verity changing it to Barnies to win the debate in the Ditta office.

• Verity’s previous work experience on her LinkedIn profile includes WayHaven Travel, a deep cut to the hotel chain featured in season three’s unforgettable “Shut Up and Dance.”

• It’s easy to spot a Tuckersoft building across the street from Ditta, a nod to the company featured in “Bandersnatch” and referenced in other episodes, too.

• When Verity chugs Luisa’s almond milk, you see that it’s made by a company called Raiman, the same name as a character in “Men Against Fire” who revealed in the episode that her family owned a farm. We saw Bob Daly in “USS Callister” drinking the brand too.

“Hotel Reverie”

• When Kimmy (Awkafina) meets with Judith (Harriet Walter) about rebooting Hotel Reverie, a couple of posters behind her qualify as Easter eggs. The White Bear is an obvious allusion to the season-two episode of the same name, but the other is for insiders only. The poster on the left is for a movie called Haven Green, which was the working production title of this season of Black Mirror. (Projects often use false names to hide their existence before they’re announced.) It stars Tony Kearns and Giselle Turner, the editor of “Bandersnatch” and a camera operator on “Bête Noire,” respectively.

• When Brandy (Issa Rae) goes online to look up clips of Dorothy (Emma Corrin), she does so on a video channel called Pia’s Video Archives. Pia is the name of the doomed video archivist of season six’s “Loch Henry.” One of her videos on the sidebar is called “What Fans Get Wrong About Classic Space Fleet” (a reference to the show that shaped “USS Callister”), and another is “Demon 79: The Real Scary Story of a Cult Classic,” an Easter egg for last season’s “Demon 79.”

• An assistant says, “Pepe from Streamberry is here,” a clear nod to the company that turns Joan’s life into content in “Joan Is Awful.” Later, it’s revealed that the meeting with Pepe went well, as Streamberry is the presenting partner for the new Hotel Reverie.

• One of the technicians working on Hotel Reverie wears a Space Fleet shirt (“USS Callister”) and uses Tuckersoft computers (“Bandersnatch”).

• A package on Brandy’s front step reveals that she lives on Junipero Drive, continuing the reign of “San Junipero” as the most Easter-egged episode.

“Plaything”

• This one is a little complicated because it’s a quasi-sequel to “Bandersnatch,” so it’s kind of hard to say that Tuckersoft, the poster for Bandersnatch II, and the actual appearance of Will Poulter’s Colin Ritman are Easter eggs when they’re more like plot points. But we didn’t want you to think we’d missed ’em.

• A deeper cut is how Tuckersoft was working on Striking Vipers II in 1994, a reference to the game played in “Striking Vipers.”

• The deepest cut in this episode is the poster in Colin’s office featuring an image of Waldo from “The Waldo Moment.”

“Eulogy”

We caught nothing in this heartbreaking episode, probably because it takes place in very specific photo-generated memories. There have been past chapters of Black Mirror with no Easter eggs, and this appears to be the one for 2025. (It’s also arguably the best; discuss among yourselves if those two things are related.)

“USS Callister: Beyond Infinity”

• Black Mirror’s first straight sequel to another episode exists largely in its own self-contained, eggless universe until past the hour mark, when it drops in a few to make sure the hardcore fans are paying attention. To start, in the virtual garage that has been Bob’s (Jesse Plemons) home for centuries, it’s almost entirely Space Fleet paraphernalia except for a box you can barely see on the top shelf that says SaitoGemu, the company that made the terrifying VR experience from “Playtest.”

• Bob offers Nanette (Cristin Milioti) a carton of chocolate milk made by Raiman, repeating the reference from both “USS Callister” and “Bête Noire” to “Men Against Fire.”

• One of the gamers seeking revenge on our crew has a banner on her computer that reads “Ashley O,” a nod to the Miley Cyrus character from “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” and a clear influence on her style.

• Is that Nida and Gaap from “Demon 79” entering Infinity to destroy the Callister? It’s the same actors — Anjana Vasan and Paapa Essiedu — though that makes absolutely no sense narratively, so it’s likely just some fun casting.

• There’s a fuzzy poster in the background of Bob’s virtual garage for a film called Valdack’s Revenge, which is sort of an in-universe Easter egg. Valdack was the game villain played by Billy Magnussen in the first “USS Callister,” and there’s a poster for the same film in Stefan’s bedroom in “Bandersnatch.”

• The real Nanette is in a hospital bed at a facility called St. Juniper. Do we even need to say it?

• The ticker at the bottom of the news story about Walton (Jimmi Simpson) being arrested drops several references to previous episodes from this season, including the reveals that Hotel Reverie is officially on Streamberry and Thronglets 2 is in production and news about the nefarious Rivermind from “Common People.” Two other news items dig deeper with “Former UK PM Michael Callow Enters Celebrity Vet School,” an allusion to the very first Black Mirror episode, “The National Anthem,” while “Mysterious Talisman Found in Plane Wreckage” is a possible nod to “Demon 79.”