118 Fun Facts About Black Mirror

In 'White Bear', what is the hunted woman told has turned most people into passive onlookers?

A signal on their screens is only the cover story: the onlookers are really visitors to a justice park, where her memory is wiped each night and the ordeal is staged again.

In 'Men Against Fire', what is MASS?

A soldier's neural implant, MASS feeds each trooper data; when Stripe's malfunctions, he sees that the snarling enemies he has been hunting are ordinary human beings.

In 'Loch Henry', what do Davis and Pia pivot to making about his Scottish hometown?

Pia persuades Davis to drop their nature film and make a true crime documentary about the Iain Adair murders, a genre the episode skewers for how it treats victims.

Which actor played the lead role of Robert Daly in the episode 'USS Callister'?

Jesse Plemons was always the makers' pick for Daly, so the shoot dates were rearranged to suit him and the rest of the cast was chosen around him.

'Nosedive' opened which series of 'Black Mirror'?

The third series opened with 'Nosedive', the first made for Netflix, whose bigger budget doubled the run to six episodes, all released on the same day.

Which Oscar-winning actress directed the fourth-series episode 'Arkangel'?

Jodie Foster, herself raised by a single mother, said the script's mother-daughter bond drew her in, and she did her own casting as the show's first woman director.

In 'Joan Is Awful', which fictional parody of Netflix turns Joan's life into a show starring Salma Hayek?

Streamberry spilled into real life: Netflix launched a mock Streamberry website to promote the series, and its UK Twitter account took the fake name.

In 'San Junipero', which 1980s song plays briefly as a dark in-joke?

Girlfriend in a Coma is a clue in plain sight: the Yorkie seen dancing in 1987 is really an older woman who has lain in a hospital bed since a car crash at 21.

In 'Hated in the Nation', the government's Autonomous Drone Insects replace which vanished creature?

The Autonomous Drone Insects are robotic bees built to pollinate crops after real bees died out; a hacker turns the swarm into a weapon that kills people targeted by a hashtag game.

What is the primary goal of the relationship-expiry dating system in 'Hang the DJ'?

The System's stated purpose is to find each user's lifelong partner, with Coach claiming a 99.8% success rate; the real-world dating app then pairs Frank and Amy as a 99.8% match.

In 'Striking Vipers', what unexpectedly develops between two estranged friends inside a VR fighting game?

A romantic and sexual relationship begins between old friends Danny and Karl through their game avatars, and it strains Danny's marriage until his wife Theo asks if he is having an affair.

Why does rideshare driver Chris take a hostage in 'Smithereens'?

To speak directly with the firm's chief executive, Billy Bauer: Chris blames himself for the crash that killed his fiancée, because he was checking a Smithereen notification at the wheel.

In 'Common People', which tech startup keeps Amanda alive on a monthly subscription?

Rivermind's surgery is free, but the subscription keeps rising in price as the service degrades, and Amanda's husband Mike goes to humiliating lengths online to pay for it.

On which British network did Black Mirror air its first two series and the 2014 'White Christmas' special before moving to Netflix?

Channel 4 lost the show in 2016 when Netflix outbid it for the new episodes; the broadcaster complained that a risk it had backed was being sold to the highest bidder.

What does Charlie Brooker say the title 'Black Mirror' refers to?

A switched-off device's screen: Brooker wrote that the black mirror is the one 'on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand', the cold, shiny glass of a TV, monitor or smartphone.

Ashley O's songs in 'Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too' are reworkings of tracks by which band?

Nine Inch Nails' furious 'Head Like a Hole' was rewritten as Ashley O's bubbly hit 'On a Roll', its angry chorus turned into a chirpy ode to ambition.

In 'Eulogy', which instrument did Carol, the lost love Phillip struggles to picture, play?

The cello: listening to an old cassette of Carol playing it is what finally brings her face back to Phillip, after every other attempt to picture her has failed.

Which computer runs Bandersnatch's tie-in game?

ZX Spectrum: the game is Nohzdyve, a nod to the episode 'Nosedive', put on a mock Tuckersoft website for anyone with the old machine or an emulator to load.

In 'The National Anthem', what grisly parcel reaches a TV newsroom during the hostage crisis?

A severed finger arrives after the government tries to fake the broadcast, but it later proves to be the kidnapper's own, cut off to keep the pressure on.

The robotic 'dogs' hunting Bella in Black Mirror's 'Metalhead' were modelled on machines from which company?

Boston Dynamics' videos of its four-legged robots gave Brooker the idea, and the director called the real machines terrifying enough on their own; the episode was shot in black and white.

In 'White Bear', what is the name of the main character who wakes up with amnesia?

Victoria Skillane learns her own name only at the end, when she is strapped to a chair and told she filmed her fiancé's murder of a young girl.

In 'Shut Up and Dance', what crime do the hackers order Kenny and Hector to commit together?

Rob a bank, with a gun hidden inside a cake they were made to deliver: Hector insists on driving, so the terrified teenager has to walk in and do the hold-up himself.

Black Mirror's 'Demon 79', set in 1979, shows shop worker Nida menaced by which British far-right group of the era?

The National Front's street racism surrounds Nida during the 1979 election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, and the episode leaves open whether her demon is real.

In 'The National Anthem', what animal must the Prime Minister have sex with on live TV?

The 2011 episode was later compared to 'Piggate', the 2015 anecdote alleging a university initiation rite involving David Cameron and a dead pig's head.

In 'Shut Up and Dance', teenager Kenny is blackmailed with a video that hackers captured through what?

The hackers recorded Kenny through his laptop webcam after he installed a bogus anti-malware tool on the machine his sister had infected, then used the footage to control him.

What is Robert Daly's job title at Callister Inc. in 'USS Callister'?

Chief Technical Officer: Daly co-founded Callister Inc. and built its hit game, but feels overlooked beside chief executive James Walton, a grudge he takes out on digital copies of his staff.

'Beyond the Sea' borrows its title from a hit for which singer?

Bobby Darin's hit, a song of lovers parted by the sea, is the English version of Charles Trenet's 'La Mer', which plays as David dances with his wife shortly before tragedy strikes.

In 'Hotel Reverie', which part does Brandy Friday play in the AI remake of a 1940s romance?

The male lead: the role of Dr Alex Palmer is gender-swapped for Brandy, who acts inside a digital copy of the old film and keeps straying from its script.

In 'Demon 79', what does the demon Gaap tell Nida she must do to prevent the world's end?

Commit three murders in three days, or the world ends: Nida misses the deadline, and as the nuclear bombs fall she agrees to join her failed demon in an eternal void.

In 'Bandersnatch', what kind of book is young programmer Stefan Butler adapting for the computer?

A fantasy gamebook called Bandersnatch: its choose-your-own-adventure format is mirrored by the film itself, which has viewers pick Stefan's path for him.

In 'USS Callister', Daly's swaggering starship captain is modelled on which screen hero?

James T. Kirk: the lead actor studied William Shatner in old Star Trek episodes, and the crew's kiss-the-captain victory ritual sends up the 1960s show's swagger.

In 'Black Museum', which actress plays Nish, the visitor who listens to Rolo Haynes's stories?

Letitia Wright plays Nish, who turns out to be the daughter of the death-row convict the museum revived as a hologram for visitors to torture, and has come for revenge.

Under what label did Charlie Brooker release the supernatural episode 'Demon 79'?

Red Mirror was Brooker's label for his experiment with supernatural horror and a period setting, flagged on screen at the start so viewers knew it was not the usual tech tale.

In 'Beyond the Sea', what tragic event befalls David's family on Earth?

David's family is murdered by an anti-replica cult, who also destroy his Earth replica, leaving him without a connection to Earth.

In 'Plaything', what is the life-sim game whose creatures Colin Ritman claims are sentient?

Thronglets also exists for real: Netflix released a playable version of the creature-raising game for phones alongside the episode.

In 'Striking Vipers', which two fighters do old friends Danny and Karl always choose to play as?

Lance and Roxette are the fighters the friends always favoured, Danny as Lance and Karl as Roxette, first on a console and then, eleven years on, in immersive virtual reality.

In 'Playtest', Cooper tests an augmented-reality game in London built to target what?

His deepest fears are pulled from his own mind: a spider, his childhood bully and, worst of all, forgetting who he is, as his father did before dying of Alzheimer's.

In Black Mirror's 'USS Callister', what does Robert Daly use to clone his co-workers' consciousness into his game?

DNA samples: Daly steals his colleagues' DNA at the office and grows copies of them inside his private version of the game, each one fully conscious and unable to leave.

In which episode are 'cookies', digital copies of consciousness, used as punishment or servitude?

'White Christmas' has Jon Hamm's Matt break a digital copy of a client into servitude with stretches of solitary confinement that pass in seconds of real time.

'Bandersnatch', released in December 2018, grew so long in production that it was split from and delayed which Black Mirror series?

The fifth series slipped to June 2019 because the interactive film, first planned as one of its episodes, proved to be, in Brooker's words, like making four episodes at once.

In 'Nosedive', what determines a person's status and access to services?

A social rating system: every encounter is scored out of five stars by phone, much like Peeple, a real app announced in 2015 as a 'Yelp for people' and shouted down.

The fourth-series episode 'Crocodile' was filmed in which country?

Iceland's snow and bare rock give 'Crocodile' the Nordic-noir chill its writers wanted; an early draft of the story had been set in Scotland.

What technology in 'The Entire History of You' lets people record and re-watch their memories?

Grain implant: it stores everything its wearer sees and hears for replay as 're-dos', and a jealous husband uses his to prove his wife's affair before cutting it out of himself.

In 'Fifteen Million Merits', what is the talent show offering an escape from servitude called?

Hot Shot sends up The X Factor, and the episode first aired on the night of that show's 2011 final, so viewers could switch straight from the real winner to the satire.

In 'USS Callister', how do the cloned crew finally escape the private universe Daly has trapped them in?

By flying into a wormhole, really the uplink for the game's next update: they expect to be deleted, but come out free in the public game while Daly is left trapped in his own.

In 'Be Right Back', how does Martha's boyfriend Ash die?

A car accident kills Ash, and the grieving Martha reluctantly tries a service that rebuilds his voice and humour from everything he ever posted online.

Which classic anthology series is Black Mirror's chief inspiration?

The Twilight Zone was Brooker's model: he admired how Rod Serling, tired of sponsors censoring his plays about real issues, smuggled the same ideas into fantasy instead.

In 'Fifteen Million Merits', how do most people earn the merits they live on?

Pedalling exercise bikes all day earns the merits, which then pay for everything from toothpaste to the right to skip the adverts forced on them.

In 'Black Museum', what ends up holding the consciousness of a comatose mother?

A toy monkey that can say only 'Monkey loves you' and 'Monkey needs a hug': her husband has her moved there once sharing his own head with her becomes unbearable.

Which three instalments won consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Television Movie?

San Junipero, USS Callister and Bandersnatch won in 2017, 2018 and 2019; after the first two, the Emmys set a 75-minute minimum for TV movies that San Junipero would have failed.

In 'Nosedive', what should Lacie's wedding speech help her afford?

A luxury apartment at Pelican Cove: Lacie cannot afford the rent without a discount, so she writes a maid-of-honour speech to impress the wedding's well-connected guests.

Which 2008 Brooker serial, staged inside the Big Brother house, came before Black Mirror?

Dead Set unleashed zombies on the Big Brother house, with the reality show's real host Davina McCall playing herself and ending up one of the undead.

Brooker said Black Mirror is about 'the way we might be living in' how long from now?

Brooker wrote in 2011 that the episodes are about 'the way we might be living in 10 minutes' time if we're clumsy', near-future technology rather than far-future.

Which guest writer scripted series one's 'The Entire History of You'?

Jesse Armstrong, who went on to create Succession, wrote the episode alone, and when Hollywood bought the film rights he was hired to write that script too.

Which two US comedy writers wrote the script of 'Nosedive'?

Michael Schur and Rashida Jones, both of Parks and Recreation, wrote the teleplay from a story by Brooker, and reviewers praised how funny their script is for so bleak a show.

Brooker's wife inspired 'Fifteen Million Merits' by joking that his future home would have what?

Screens for walls: Konnie Huq, who co-wrote the episode, watched him juggle an iPad, a phone and the television at once, and Bing's cell became exactly that room.

Which device does insurance investigator Shazia use on witnesses in 'Crocodile'?

The Recaller shows a witness's hazy memories on a screen, and Shazia's routine inquiry into a driverless pizza van's accident leads her from one witness to the next and on to a killer.

Which fictional news channel recurs across many Black Mirror episodes?

UKN first reports the kidnapping in 'The National Anthem' and then keeps turning up on screens in later episodes, one of the threads that ties the separate stories into one world.

Which actor cameoed in 'USS Callister' on condition he could star in a later episode?

Aaron Paul voiced the gamer heard in the final scene, a cameo kept so secret that even the cast only learned whose voice it was at the first screening.

Which actress played an airline worker in 'Nosedive' and Shania in 'USS Callister'?

Michaela Coel's airline clerk refuses Lacie a seat, the start of her unravelling, and Coel returned a year later as Shania, the colleague who warns the new recruit about Daly.

In 'Arkangel', what does the implant let Marie do with her daughter Sara?

The Arkangel implant streams Sara's sight to a parental tablet so Marie can see through her eyes, track her location and pixelate anything that raises her stress.

In 'Crocodile', whose memories finally expose Mia after she has silenced every human witness?

A pet guinea pig watched the last killing: police read its memories once they learn that the baby Mia silenced as a witness had been born blind.

Which Marvel star's company won a 2013 bidding war to adapt 'The Entire History of You' for cinema?

Robert Downey Jr.'s Team Downey beat George Clooney to the option, but the planned film stalled in development and the option was allowed to lapse.

In 'Eulogy', what does the memorial company's kit let Phillip step inside?

Old photographs become places he can walk around, but Phillip had scratched Carol out of every one after their breakup, leaving him to search the scenes for other traces of her.

Which Radiohead song plays over the bleak ending of 'Shut Up and Dance'?

'Exit Music (For a Film)' swells as the hackers publish every victim's secret anyway, after each of them has done exactly as ordered.

Who played the Prime Minister in 'The National Anthem'?

Rory Kinnear, Bill Tanner in the Daniel Craig Bond films, plays the Prime Minister, who obeys the kidnapper only for the princess to turn up freed before the broadcast even began.

Which future Oscar nominee played Bing in 'Fifteen Million Merits'?

Daniel Kaluuya's Bing spends his merits on Abi's audition, then earns them all again to walk on stage himself and hold a shard of glass to his own neck while he rages at the judges.

Which actress played Ffion in 'The Entire History of You'?

Jodie Whittaker, later the Thirteenth Doctor, plays Ffion, whose jealous husband Liam ends up demanding that she replay her own memory of a night with another man.

Which two actors played grieving Martha and her late partner Ash in 'Be Right Back'?

Hayley Atwell plays Martha and Domhnall Gleeson plays Ash, who returns first as a chatbot and then as a synthetic body Martha ends up keeping in the attic.

Which actress played the amnesiac protagonist of 'White Bear'?

Lenora Crichlow, known from Being Human, plays the woman chased while bystanders only film her, an ordeal revealed as her sentence, wiped from her memory and restaged for a crowd each day.

In 'The Waldo Moment', a man contests a by-election as what?

An animated bear named Waldo is voiced by a failed comedian who quits in disgust mid-campaign; the character is simply handed to someone else, finishes second and ends up on screens worldwide.

Which actor played Joe opposite Jon Hamm in 'White Christmas'?

Rafe Spall plays Joe Potter, who gradually confesses to Jon Hamm's Matt in a snowbound outpost that turns out to be a simulation built to draw that confession out of him.

Which 1960s song, first sung by Abi in 'Fifteen Million Merits', recurs across Black Mirror?

'Anyone Who Knows What Love Is', an Irma Thomas single that missed the US top 50, was picked, Brooker has said, because it sounds like a timeless classic most viewers wouldn't know; it then returned in episode after episode.

Brooker called 'San Junipero' a deliberate 'raspberry-blow' at fans worried about what?

The show's Americanisation was the fear once Netflix took over, so Brooker set his first script for the new series in California and, for once, gave it a hopeful ending.

Which actress plays social-media striver Lacie in 'Nosedive'?

Bryce Dallas Howard gained 30 pounds to play Lacie, because she saw body shaming as a large part of the story's subtext.

Which actor plays playtester Cooper in 'Playtest'?

Wyatt Russell, son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, plays Cooper, who takes the test for quick cash after his bank account is emptied and is undone by a phone call from his mother.

Which Game of Thrones actor plays Hector in 'Shut Up and Dance'?

Jerome Flynn, Bronn in Game of Thrones, plays Hector, a married man blackmailed over a planned hotel tryst; Alex Lawther plays teenager Kenny.

Which two actresses play Kelly and Yorkie in 'San Junipero'?

Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Kelly and Mackenzie Davis plays Yorkie, the two women who meet in the simulated beach town and choose to spend eternity there.

Which actresses lead the police procedural 'Hated in the Nation'?

Kelly Macdonald and Faye Marsay play the two detectives, a veteran and a tech specialist, who trace a string of deaths to hacked autonomous drones.

In 'Metalhead', what turns out to be inside the box Bella's group raided the warehouse for?

Teddy bears spill across the floor in the final shot: the raid that cost Bella's companions their lives was only meant to comfort someone who was dying.

In 'Loch Henry', which award does the finished project win in the bittersweet final scenes?

A BAFTA goes to the finished project, but Davis ends the night alone in his hotel room with his mother's last note: 'For your film. Mum.'

Which actress plays new programmer Nanette Cole in 'USS Callister'?

Cristin Milioti plays Nanette Cole, the new coder whose digital clone leads the crew's escape from Daly's private game.

Which actress plays Mia, who kills to keep an old hit-and-run buried in 'Crocodile'?

Andrea Riseborough first read for another part, then asked whether the lead, written as a man, could be a woman, and the script was changed for her.

Which two actors play Amy and Frank in 'Hang the DJ'?

Georgina Campbell plays Amy and Joe Cole plays Frank, who rebel against the System and climb its wall together, only to learn they are just one of many simulated test runs.

Which actress plays Bella, fleeing a robot 'dog' in the black-and-white 'Metalhead'?

Maxine Peake plays Bella, hunted across a bleak landscape after a warehouse raid goes wrong; she outlasts the machine overnight up a tree by waking it again and again until its power runs down.

Which magician wrote the short story behind the first of the three tales in 'Black Museum'?

Penn Jillette wrote 'The Pain Addict' early in his career; on screen it becomes the tale of a doctor whose implant lets him feel his patients' pain, until he comes to crave it.

Which pop hit plays over the final scenes of 'San Junipero'?

'Heaven Is a Place on Earth' turns out to be literal: the last shot shows a vast hall of servers where the town's residents now live.

Netflix said Bandersnatch can play out in roughly how many unique ways?

A trillion permutations was Netflix's own figure, though many of them differ only in small details, such as which cereal Stefan eats for breakfast.

Which actor plays Stefan in Bandersnatch?

Fionn Whitehead, a year on from his lead role in Dunkirk, plays Stefan, a young programmer who comes to feel that some outside force is steering everything he does.

Which two actors play Danny and Karl in 'Striking Vipers'?

Anthony Mackie plays Danny and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Karl; Brooker took the idea from his own round-the-clock Tekken sessions with a flatmate in the 1990s.

Which actor plays rideshare driver Chris, the kidnapper in 'Smithereens'?

Andrew Scott plays Chris, a grieving rideshare driver whose kidnap of a Smithereen intern leads to a standoff in a field with police watching.

Which pop star plays Ashley O in 'Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too'?

Miley Cyrus plays Ashley O, whose aunt and manager drugs her into a coma to keep pulling songs from her mind, while a doll carrying a copy of her personality befriends a lonely fan.

Which production company did Brooker co-found in 2020 after quitting his Endemol-backed label?

Broke and Bones was set up within days of Brooker and his producing partner leaving House of Tomorrow, each taking half, while the rights to Black Mirror itself stayed behind with Endemol Shine.

In 'Joan Is Awful', how did Joan unknowingly sign away the rights to her own life?

Accepting terms and conditions she never read, when she signed up to the streamer on her phone, gave it the right to turn her whole life into a show, as her lawyer has to tell her.

Which Schitt's Creek star plays Joan in 'Joan Is Awful'?

Annie Murphy, Alexis in Schitt's Creek, plays Joan, who ends up joining forces with Salma Hayek, the star playing her on screen, to smash the computer that generates the show.

Which two actors play astronauts Cliff and David in 'Beyond the Sea'?

Aaron Paul plays Cliff and Josh Hartnett plays David, astronauts on a long mission who can still spend their off-duty hours at home with their families through a remote link.

In 'Mazey Day', what does the starlet hiding from the paparazzi turn out to be?

A werewolf: she was bitten by a man she hit with her car, and when the photographers undo her chains just as the moon comes out, she turns on them.

Which two actors play Nida and the demon Gaap in 'Demon 79'?

Anjana Vasan plays shop assistant Nida and Paapa Essiedu plays Gaap, a demon who shows up looking like the Boney M. star she had just been watching on television.

Which director made 'USS Callister' and was soon calling for it to become a spin-off series?

Toby Haynes said days after release that he would love to make it a series; one was about to start when the 2023 actors' strike derailed it, and the ideas were folded into a single feature-length episode.

Which former star of The Crown plays leading lady Clara in 'Hotel Reverie'?

Emma Corrin plays Clara, an AI copy of a role first played by a long-dead film star; when Brandy slips and uses the actress's real name, Clara starts recalling that woman's life.

In 'Bête Noire', what is the name of the former schoolmate who joins Maria's workplace?

Verity, once the butt of a cruel school rumour, arrives wearing a pendant that controls a quantum computer she built at home, letting her shift reality around Maria.

Which phrase from a parody article has come to sum up a typical Black Mirror plot?

'What if phones, but too much' caught the formula so neatly that The Verge borrowed it to argue the show's plots were becoming predictable.

Which two actors play Mike and Amanda in 'Common People'?

Chris O'Dowd plays welder Mike and Rashida Jones plays teacher Amanda; to keep up with her rising fees, he takes to humiliating himself online for paying viewers.

In 'Bête Noire', Maria develops recipes for what kind of company?

A chocolate maker employs Maria to invent new bars; her miso-jam filling is voted disgusting until one late arrival says it tastes better the second time, and the whole panel changes its mind.

Which entertainment tech company recruits Brandy Friday in 'Hotel Reverie'?

ReDream projects Brandy's consciousness into a digital recreation of the old film, where she has to play her scenes opposite AI versions of its characters.

Which magazine did 'Plaything' protagonist Cameron Walker review games for in the 1990s?

PC Zone is where Brooker himself made his name reviewing games in the 1990s, so Cameron's job is lifted straight from his writer's own past.

Which two Bandersnatch actors reprise their roles in 'Plaything'?

Will Poulter and Asim Chaudhry return as programmer Colin Ritman and his boss Mohan Thakur; Ritman shows a young reviewer his new game, then has a breakdown and wipes all of its code.

Which actor plays lonely Phillip in 'Eulogy'?

Paul Giamatti plays Phillip, coaxed into recalling his late ex Carol for her memorial by a digital guide who turns out to be modelled on Carol's own daughter.

In the 'USS Callister' sequel, how has Nanette's cloned crew been surviving inside their online universe?

By robbing players of their credits is how Nanette's stranded crew gets by; with no gamer tags of their own, they are taken for cheaters or glitches and grumbled about on the forums.

Which composer wrote the original score for 'San Junipero'?

Clint Mansell, once the singer of Pop Will Eat Itself, wrote a calm electronic score to fit around songs already chosen, taking his cue from John Hughes films.

Which city doubled for coastal California in 'San Junipero'?

Cape Town supplied the street outside the club and Kelly's beach house; director Owen Harris said its rich settings let him build a slightly heightened California.

Bandersnatch was named after a real, never-finished game planned by which British developer?

Imagine Software hyped Bandersnatch as a 'megagame', then went bust before finishing it, with a BBC documentary crew on hand to film the Liverpool company's collapse.

Which high-street retailer did Brooker work for before television, drawing its cartoon adverts?

CeX took him on from a Notting Hill exchange shop; his comic-strip adverts for it ran in a games magazine, which then invited him to write for it.

Which Guardian TV column did Brooker write from 2000 to 2010?

Screen Burn ended when Brooker called time on it himself, finding it ever harder to be rude about TV stars while working in television and rubbing shoulders with them.

The title of 'Hang the DJ' comes from the refrain of 'Panic', a hit for which band?

The Smiths' 'Panic' is playing in the bar as the real Amy and Frank lock eyes for the first time, moments after the app has matched them.

Which director made the black-and-white episode 'Metalhead'?

David Slade proposed the black and white himself, to match what he called the oppressive nature of the story; he went on to direct Bandersnatch.

In 'Men Against Fire', what do the soldiers call the humanoid 'mutants' they hunt?

Roaches is the soldiers' word for people they have been made to see as monsters; the title comes from S.L.A. Marshall's book, which claimed most soldiers in combat never fired their rifles.

In 'Hated in the Nation', which social-media hashtag marks the drone insects' victims?

The '#DeathTo' game invites users to nominate targets; the trap then turns on everyone who used the tag, 387,036 people, in the 89-minute episode.