Black Mirror's Most Beautiful Easter Egg Resurfaces in Season 6

Black Mirror season 6 is finally available on Netflix. After a four-year hiatus that the show took since season 5 was released, the creator of the series made the fans happy with 6 more episodes of the dystopian show. 5 episodes are already released and another one will air on July 1.

The show is supposed to be an anthology where each episode stands on its own. Moreover, it has been claimed that it doesn't matter which episode or even which season you watch first, and that the order is the last thing that fans should pay attention to.

Although the most observant fans have found a lot of clues that absolutely confirm that all episodes share one universe. And even if some of them are quite disturbing, like the white bear toys, there is still a very beautiful easter egg in the show.

It is the song by Irma Thomas called Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand). And this is exactly the sign that connects all the episodes from different seasons and actually gives the show some harmony in a most unnoticeable but strong way.

The first appearance of the song was at the very beginning of the show, in season 1 episode 2, titled Fifteen Million Merits. The story in that episode is about a society that is obsessed with virtual reality, but some of them are trapped in a place where they pedal on stationary bikes to earn merit points.

These points give them the ability to buy things, but the main thing that everyone is eager to get is the 15 million merits that will give you a chance to show off your talent in a show with judges. And the character named Abi takes part in it as a singer. So that’s when we hear the song for the first time.

Of course, the choice of the song has deep meaning and wasn’t just a random choice.

As the creator of the show Charlie Brooker stated, they wanted a song that would sound like a true timeless classic hit, but yet to be unknown to the audience. And as he also mentioned, “the idea was to have the character of Abi sing a song of earnest beauty.”

But after that first appearance, the song actually became an essential part of the show. Whether performed by a character, heard on the radio, or simply used as background music, the song has become the show's main soundtrack, appearing once each season.

In season 2, we hear the song in episode 4, White Christmas. The character of the show, Beth, sings this song in karaoke and dedicates it to her boyfriend. But this is a story that does not end well. Because that moment became his only great memory after their relationship fell apart.

Season 3 presented the song in a very different way in the episode Men Against Fire. An army soldier sings the song to a criminal being held hostage while the rest of the crew investigates his house. She actually uses it to intimidate the man.

Season 4 features the song in episode Crocodile, as the thing that will haunt and remind characters for accidentally killing a man on the road, while that song was played on the radio. In season 5 the song is surgically extracted from a popular pop star’s brain to be mass-produced and profited off of.

The best thing that actually happened with the show is the reintroduction of this song in the very first episode of the show. Used as a background song in the episode Joan is Awful, when the main character Joan enters a cafe to meet her ex-boyfriend, the song immediately helps us believe that we are still in the same Black Mirror universe.

It puts fans in a kind of safe place, knowing that everything will be the same for them. Same horror, same embarrassment, same fun, same shock, etc. The way the show's creators have handled this unifying theme is so simple, yet actually very beautiful. And frankly, beauty is not something we see a lot in the show.

Source: The Wrap