Episode 3: Hotel Reverie
– The pretend movie posters in Judith Keyworth’s studio workplace are full of Easter eggs. One is for a film named “Haven Green”, which refers back to the codename used throughout manufacturing on Black Mirror season seven, as featured on its set chairs and extra. It stars Tony Kearns and Giselle Turner, who’re, respectively: the editor on “Plaything” and “USS Callister: Into Infinity” and a digicam trainee on “Bête Noire”. Another poster, as seen behind Awkwafina’s character Kimmy, is for a film named White Bear, with the tagline “Justice will be swift”, which can also be the title and theme of a season two Black Mirror episode.
– When Brandy is speaking to her agent on the phone about getting the Hotel Reverie half, his PA declares that his subsequent assembly is with “Pepe from Streamberry”, that being the identify of the Netflix-avatar streaming service launched in season six episode “Joan Is Awful”, and in addition referenced in “Loch Henry”. Later on, we be taught that this new tackle the basic movie was offered to Streamberry and has grow to be an sudden hit.
– When Brandy is watching Dorothy Chambers’ screentest for Hotel Reverie on YouTube, the sidebar has a couple of nods to previous episodes. There’s a video titled “What Fans Get WRONG About Classic Space Fleet,” referencing the fictional Star Trek-alike franchise from USS Callister and its sequel, and one titled “Demon 79: The Real Scary Story of a Cult Classic,” referencing season six’s Red Mirror instalment. Additionally, the account identify of the YouTube poster behind the Keyworth Capers Best Comedy Scenes montage is “Waldomoments” in reference to season two episode “The Waldo Moment”.
– On the redream mission control-like sound stage, technician Jack is carrying a Space Fleet t-shirt, in reference to “USS Callister” and its sequel episode this season. On his desk can also be an enormous paperback ebook entitled “Bandersnatch”, maybe a novelisation of the favored online game?
– Later on, round 37 minutes in to the episode, we see a TCKR sticker on Jack’s pc, referencing Tuckersoft, the online game firm from 2018’s interactive episode “Bandersnatch”, which additionally returns in season seven’s “Plaything”.
– At 1:10, when the credit lastly roll on the brand new model of Hotel Reverie, the forged names we see are taken from the actual Black Mirror visible results group: Aileen McIntosh, David O’Brien, Asher Thornton, Kuba Tanel and extra.
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