Black Mirror season 7 Easter eggs explained — did you spot them all?

Black Mirror is up there with Taylor Swift when it comes to sneaking in Easter eggs. And if you like to spend your time hunting them, then good news: Charlie Brooker’s extended universe just expanded, with a seventh season of episodes stuffed full of self-referential nods and hints. For the casual fan, there’s usually one or two per episode that are easier to spot, maybe a product name-drop or a recurring character that will have you doing the Pointing Leonardo DiCaprio meme.

For the obsessives, every frame could contain a potential clue — from stickers to posters to ticker tape. We’ve already reviewed every episode from season seven and ranked our best and worst Black Mirror episodes ever . So once you’ve caught up, it’s time to hunt down all those delicious Easter eggs.



Spoilers ahead! Starring Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd and Tracee Ellis Ross, Common People is a depressing tale of a couple caught up in the punitive American healthcare system and the machinations of brain subscription service Rivermind. Jones plays Amanda, a teacher who is presenting lessons on bee-replacement drones that are the ADIs from Hated in the Nation (season 3, episode 6). O’Dowd plays her husband Mike, a factory worker at Clark Industries, which also makes those sinister robotic dogs from Metalhead (season 4, episode 5) Every anniversary the couple returns to The Juniper Hotel, a reference to the beloved Black Mirror episode San Junipero (season 3, episode 4), where the entertainment is a couple of crooners singing Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand).

Music is one of Brooker’s favourite ways to plant an Easter egg, and this song first appeared way back in the first season in 15 Million Merits (season 1, episode 2). It’s since played multiple episodes including Joan is Evil (season 6, episode 1). Black Mirror always rewards close reading, so when Mike is reduced to humiliating himself for clips online, some of his tormentor-donators usernames are references.

Snoutman144 is a nod to the OG Black Mirror episode The National Anthem (season 1, episode 1), whereas I_AM_Waldo references The Waldo Moment (season 2, episode 3). Interestingly, both episodes involve someone having a miserable time in televised politics, and Common People has a political message of its own. There are also some references to episodes that happen later in this season itself, some pre-laid eggs if you will.

A cinema in one shot is showing Hotel Reverie (season 7, episode 3), and one of the intrusive adverts that Amanda unconsciously spouts is for Ditta, the sweetie brand from the next episode Bête Noire (season 7, episode 2) What if the weirdo you bullied at school was out for revenge, and also had the power to mess with the fabric of reality? That’s the nightmarish premise of Bête Noire, an office drama that gets way out of hand. The episode opens with a foreshadowing shot of a snapback hat emblazoned with Barnie’s Chicken, a takeaway chain that was a setting in Shut Up and Dance (season 3, episode 3). Maria’s (Siena Kelly) boyfriend Kae (Michael Workéyè) uses a VR headseat to play games that looks like the one in Striking Vipers (season 5, episode 1).

The headset shows a digital version of Kae’s eyes, in what looks like a cheeky dig at the Apple Vision Pro’s EyeSight function. Ditta, the food company Maria works at, has offices near to Tuckersoft, a Black Mirror stalwart and producer of nefarious technology — including that in the much-maligned Black Mirror standalone interactive film Bandersnatch. Workers squabble over who is drinking all the almond milk (relatable) and the carton is shown to be a fictional brand called Raiman.

Raiman is a character from Men Against Fire (season 3, episode 5) who mentions her family has a farm. A carton of Raiman’s Milk has previously shown up in USS Callister (season 4, episode 1), and now they’ve seemingly branched out to plant-based milks. Issa Rae, Emma Corrin and Awkwafina star in this romantic tale of two star-crossed Hollywood stars from a different era who meet in an AI-generated reboot of a classic movie.

Streamberry gets several mentions. The fictional streaming service that functions as a parody of streamer Netflix (which is where Black Mirror lives in our reality) first appeared in Joan is Awful (season 6, episode 1). Posters in the Keyworth Picture office include one for White Bear (season 2, episode 2) and for something called ‘Green Haven’ — the code name Black Mirror used while filming season 7.

A poster for Buck Up, Doctor is a reference to the creepy Dr Peter Dawson in Black Museum (season 4, episode 6). While watching old clips on YouTube, Rae’s character Brandy has a sidebar with videos from Demon 79 (season 6, episode 6) and Space Fleet, the fictional TV show from USS: Callister (season 4, episode 1). Space Fleet also appears on a T-shirt worn by a technician during filming, and the computers are from Tuckersoft.

There are more nods to San Junipero in this episode, which explores similar themes of queer love in virtual spaces. Newspaper clippings show Corrin’s character Dorothy also starred in a film called St Juniper, and Brandy lives at Junipero Drive. When Dorothy sees the newspaper clippings, there’s also an advert for White Bear as a beauty product.

A piano rendition of Clair De Lune is a key plot point in Hotel Reverie. The song also appeared on Beyond The Sea (season 6, episode 3). Peter Capaldi stars as Cameron Walker in this story about a mysterious video game, told through a police interrogation.

When Capaldi’s character is arrested, the shop he is in has Ditta products on the shelves in reference to previous episode Bête Noire. There’s also a White Bear beer being advertised. In flashbacks, Walker is a journalist at a PC Zone, a real magazine that Brooker himself used to work for.

Walker is sent to Tuckersoft where he meets Colin Ritman, both from Black Mirror’s standalone choose-your-own-adventure interactive film Bandersnatch. Will Poulter reprises his role as Ritman. There are posters for Bandersnatch 2, Striking Viper 2, and for Space Fleet, which also appears as a book in Ritman’s office.

There’s also a poster from The Waldo Moment behind his desk. In a new venture for Black Mirror, the game from Plaything — Thronglets — is also available to download and play from Netflix on your phone..

. at your peril. Paul Giamatti and Patsy Ferran star in Eulogy, a tech-assisted trip down memory lane that challenges unreliable narratives of a long-ago breakup.

Surprise! There are no Easter eggs that anyone has found in this theatrical two-hander, maybe because the technology is just a conduit for the narrative rather than something that interferes with it. Giamatti’s character does use a Nubbin, the in-world brain interface technology that Black Mirror has made a recurring object in the series. It also shows up in Hotel Reverie and USS Callister: Into Infinity.

It would have been nice if it was in Plaything, but Capaldi’s character does some gnarly DIY brain surgery instead. And if it counts as a London-specific Easter egg, one of the band scenes in Eulogy was filmed at the east London pub The Shacklewell Arms . The whole episode is kind of an Easter egg, given it’s the first time that Black Mirror has revisited one of the pocket worlds created in its episodes.

We rejoin the crew of the good ship USS: Callister, captained by Nanette (Cristin Milioti), as the digital clones try to survive in the world of Callister Inc’s game. Internal Easter eggs don’t show up properly until the final half of the episode. There’s a virtual garage full of Space Fleet merchandise and something from SaitoGemu, the company in Playtest (season 3, episode 2).

Plus there is a poster for Valdeck’s Revenge, which appeared in Bandersnatch and as a character in the original USS Callister. Nanette is also offered a carton of Raiman chocolate milk (see above). When Nanette is hospitalised, it’s at a place called St Juniper — yet another San Junipero reference.

One of the gamers has a banner that says Ashley O, referencing Miley Cyrus’s character in Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too (season 5, episode 6). Paapa Essiedu, star of Demon 79 turns up in the game alongside his co-star Anjana Vasan. It’s unclear if they are reprising their role as Gaap and Nida, or if they just wanted another turn on the Black Mirror carousel.

A mysterious talisman from the episode is also referenced in the ticker tape on the final newsreel. If you look closely, the ticker tape also mentions Hotel Reverie on Streamberry, Thronglets 2 from Plaything, Rivermind from Common People, and the pretty hilarious phrase “Former UK PM Michael Callow Enters Celebrity Vet School”, a reference to the first ever episode National Anthem. Brooker is this year’s Easter bunny, and we’ve all got a full basket.

Black Mirror season 7 is streaming now on Netflix.