10 Best Easter Eggs in ‘Black Mirror’ To Watch Out For

Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of modern television. A British anthology series, it’s usually set in futuristic, frighteningly relatable societies that don’t feel too far away. Black Mirror’s blood-chilling episodes serve as a warning to viewers, reflecting the darker side of technology — and also of ourselves. Originally created by Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror eventually found a home on Netflix, where it surged in popularity.

Netflix has since commissioned new episodes and has just recently dropped its latest season. This might prompt you to rewatch the previous seasons before diving into these six new episodes. Or, if you’re like me, perhaps you’ll be inspired to rewatch the older episodes after seeing season 7. Either way, if you initiate a rewatch, you might notice little Easter eggs sprinkled throughout the first six seasons of Black Mirror, hinting at how the show and its characters are all set within the same fictional universe.

Here are 10 fun Easter eggs to look out for during your rewatch of Black Mirror.

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Fences Pizza

Multiple Episodes

Fences Pizza, maybe the worst name ever for a pizza place, pops up a few times in Black Mirror. It plays a significant role in the plot of the season 4 episode, “USS Callister,” distracting the episode’s antagonist long enough to help our heroes.

Fences Pizza resurfaces just a couple of episodes later in “Crocodile.” appearing as an autonomous pizza delivery van.

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The Waldo Sticker

“Shut Up and Dance” (Season 3, Episode 3)

Waldo is an iconic character within the universe of Black Mirror. He’s an irreverent, animated blue bear who first appears in the season 2 episode, “The Waldo Moment.” This satirical character takes on a life of his own, rising from a TV star to a viable political candidate. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it, America? There are a number of Waldo references throughout Black Mirror.

In the season 3 episode “Shut Up and Dance,” you can see a sticker of Waldo in the background, on the main character’s laptop. Waldo’s influence demonstrates how easily entertainment and technology can be weaponized for political gain, underscoring the dangers of unchecked power. Since its premiere in 2013, Waldo has become an eerie reflection of America’s own political reality.

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“Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)”

Multiple Episodes

Every show needs a theme song, and in the case of Black Mirror, that theme song is the 1964 hit, “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)” by Irma Thomas.

It first appears in the season 1 episode “Fifteen Million Merits” when Abi Khan (Jessica Brown Findlay) performs this tune at an audition before a panel of judges. It can be seen or heard in multiple other episodes, such as “White Christmas,” “Men Against Fire,” and “Crocodile.”

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News Channel UKN

Multiple Episodes

People within the Black Mirror universe still rely on old-fashioned TV channels to get their news. UK Network News Ltd, or UKN, is a fictional news broadcasting channel in the United Kingdom.

It first appeared in the show’s very first episode, where it featured prominently in the storyline. Since then, it’s appeared on many random screens, flashing various attention-grabbing headlines, in multiple episodes, such as “The Waldo Moment,” “White Christmas,” and “Hated in the Nation.” And if you look closely, you might just catch a glimpse of an Easter egg within this Easter egg….

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News Update on Victoria Skillane

“White Christmas” (Season 2, Episode 4)

Victoria Skillane (Lenora Crichlow) is one of the most vile and notorious characters in Black Mirror. In the season 2 episode “White Bear”, Skillane finds herself being chased by merciless persecutors, while voyeurs watch and film the events. Its shocking twist reveals that Skillane is being subjected to cruel and unusual torture as punishment for filming the murder of a kidnapped child. And at the end of each day, her memory is wiped, and she’s forced to relive the same horrific events the next day.

What becomes of Skillane after this episode? Well, in the episode “White Christmas,” we get a tidbit of information on Skillane’s status from none other than UKN. If you look closely at the UKN update, you’ll see a news headline crawling at the bottom that reads: “Ria Skillane Appeal Bid Rejected,” a reference to the character from “White Bear.” It seems like Skillane is still stuck at White Bear Justice Park, getting tortured every single day. What a shame.

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15M Merits Comic Book

“Black Museum” (Season 4, Episode 6)

The season 4 episode “Black Museum” is literally a museum of Black Mirror Easter eggs, a treasure trove of in-verse references. One of those Easter eggs ties into the second episode, and one of the best episodes, of the series, “15 Million Merits.” It follows a man named Bing (Daniel Kaluuya) who lives in a world surrounded by screens, in a society where people cycle on exercise bikes to earn currency known as “merits.”

In “Black Museum,” we see a character reading a comic book called “15M Merits,” whose cover seems to depict Bing. What does this mean? Does “15 Million Merits” take place within the panels of a comic book? The answer is left open to interpretation.

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San Junipero Postcard

“Metalhead” (Season 4, Episode 5)

The season 3 episode “San Junipero” is widely regarded as one of the best and most emotional episodes of Black Mirror — probably because most people incorrectly view the finale as a happy ending.

There are a ton of Easter eggs that point to this episode throughout the series, including in the latest season. But one of its best references happens in the season 4 episode, “Metalhead.” At one point, we see a heap of mail on a black-and-white countertop. And within it is a postcard for the digital paradise of San Junipero.

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Fictional TV References

“Joan Is Awful” (Season 6, Episode 1)

Numerous fictional TV shows exist within the world of Black Mirror. One of those shows is Sea of Tranquility, a sci-fi series that’s mentioned in multiple episodes. In the episode “Joan Is Awful”, the main characters are browsing a fictional streaming platform called Streamberry. At one point, we see that Sea of Tranquility is one of the options on the screen. If only the characters clicked it to give us a taste of what this series is about. A little bit later, we also see Space Fleet listed as a streaming option on the same platform, another sci-fi series that’s closely connected to the episode “USS Callister.”

But if you look to the right of that, you’ll see a film or movie called Average People. Could this be an Easter egg reference to the future season 7 episode, “Common People”?

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Status Update from England’s Former Prime Minister

“Nosedive” (Season 3, Episode 1)

Black Mirror began with one of the most jarring episodes the show has ever created: “The National Anthem”. Here, an unknown terrorist kidnaps a beloved member of the Royal Family. And he will only release her if England’s Prime Minister, Michael Callow (Rory Kinnear), live streams his intercourse with a pig. And to everyone’s immense horror, that’s exactly what the Prime Minister does.

Since the show’s very first episode, we’ve gotten several updates, in the form of blink-or-you-miss-it Easter eggs, as to how life has been for Michael Callow since this heinous act. We’ve seen that he’s gotten divorced and has won a season of Celebrity Bake Off. But the best Easter egg, by far, appears in the season 3 episode, “Nosedive.” Eagle-eyed viewers caught a status update from Michael Callow on a character’s newsfeed, which says, “Just got thrown out of the zoo again 🙁 ” — a comical reference to what he endured in episode 1.

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An Exhibition Dedicated to the Artist from “National Anthem”

“Black Museum” (Season 4, Episode 6)

The terrorist in “National Anthem” is revealed to be Carlton Bloom, a Turner Prize-winning artist who wanted to make a political statement. Bloom commits suicide at the end of the episode by hanging himself.

Fast-forward to season 4, one of the characters is walking around the Black Museum. And behind her, you can see a grim exhibition dedicated to Carlton Bloom.