Black Mirror Season 7 Ending Explained: Every Episode Breakdown

Black Mirror Season 7 Ending Explained: In the newest season of Netflix’s dystopian thriller series Black Mirror, we get six new episodes showcasing the good and bad of technological advancements in the near future and what it will mean for human beings. These stories work as a cautionary tale, in a way, while also sometimes reminding us of the good things that technology has brought into our lives.

The series has 6 episodes, each with a runtime of around 50 minutes.

Black Mirror Season 7 Ending Explained

Black Mirror Common People Ending Explained

The episode showcases the subscription trend that has taken over our everyday lives in the most damning of ways. Almost everything that we use has been transformed into a per-month payment basis, and more and more tiers are added every day to do the most basic of functions. And everyone who is either not subscribed or on the lowest tiers is subjected to incessant ads that make the entire service unusable.

The story takes that notion further with a technology in the distant past that helps Amanda to come out of a coma caused by a brain tumor. It’s a subscription-based model that helps her live her life normally and transfers her consciousness to a cloud, which then streams it to her brain. However, although the service starts off with big promises, it ends up getting more and more difficult to pay for it after they add more and more tiers to do even the basics of everyday life. Also, the unwanted and intrusive ads that Amanda starts to say out loud at unwanted times that she has no control over get her in hot water at her job.

To combat this, Mike starts to push himself over the edge by taking on more hours to get the higher membership program, just so that Amanda can live a normal life. As the company resorts to more and more immoral choices to get more money out of users, things get more difficult for the couple. Mike signs up for a snuff website and partakes in horrible acts just to make money. This results in his identity getting leaked to his colleagues, and an ensuing fight gets him fired.

In the end, after going through some rough times, Amanda asks him to end her life and the misery that they are living in. In the last scene, Mike kills Amanda and then goes into a room with a box cutter. It’s unclear what his exact next move is, but he might be using it to end his life or perform more violent acts to get money. The entire ordeal left their happy family in shambles and turned Mike into the husk of the loving man that he once was.

Black Mirror Bête Noire Ending Explained

In this story, bakery whiz Maria is left frazzled when her high school classmate Verity suddenly joins her workplace. Outwardly, Verity is charming and beguiling and leaves an impression on everyone she comes across. However, Maria is unsure about herself and is constantly uncomfortable and unsure about herself. At first, the viewers assume that Maria is overthinking things, but soon after, things start to go just a little wrong.

Things that Maria knows that she saw or are the truth get changed, so much so that everyone around her believes everything that Verity says. Maria starts to feel gaslighted, but is unable to understand what exactly is going on. Soon, however, we learn that Maria was part of a clique in high school that used to bully Verity and started a rumour that she was having an affair with a teacher. It destroyed Verity’s life during that time and left a deep impact on her. Maria reaches out to her high school friend to talk to her about Verity, but learns that she has recently died.

With things going wrong at home and at the office, Maria takes it upon herself to understand more about Verity. Throughout one incident in the office, she realises that the necklace that Verity is wearing has something to do with this reality-altering situation. She breaks into her home and finds the pendant, realising that there’s a button. The two get into a confrontation, and Verity explains that the pendant is a remote that she can use to work the supercomputers in her basement to take them to another dimension where everything that she says is true.

The two get into a fight after Verity calls the cops through the remote however, Maria gets the upper hand and shoots Verity and eventually gains control of the remote, turning herself into an empress in the end.

Black Mirror Hotel Reverie Ending Explained

In this romantic-thriller story, Hollywood A-list star Brandy Friday finds herself unsatisfied with the roles that she gets offered, but is left interested when her agent comes up with a new job — to star in an old Hollywood remake of a fan-favourite film. She forgets to go through the information packet completely, thinking that this is just another acting gig, but on the day of is surprised and concerned to learn that this job has more to it than just that.

It’s a technologically advanced production where she will be taken to another dimension where the film will play in real time, and she will take over the part of one of the protagonists and act as if she is really in the film. Unfortunately, technical issues force her to be stuck in the film and be in it until the end credits roll to make it out alive.

The story showcases Brandy as a woman who finds herself relating to the actress in the film and her tragic life story. When she goes into the film, she accidentally calls her by her real name, which sets off a chain reaction in which the character draws parallels with her real life. Thus, when the system shuts down, leaving only Brandy and Dorothy able to interact, it’s because they are the only two people with agency and not sticking to a script. Through this, they develop genuine feelings for one another in the dimension of the film. Thus, in the end, Dorothy gives up her life to save Brandy, even though it goes against the script, because she genuinely fell for her. In the realm of the film, both of these women could be their true selves without needing to hide or lie.

When the title card rolls, Brandy, thus, is left heartbroken at having lost Dorothy, but Kimmy delivers a gift to her, having realised the nature of their relationship. She gives her a phone that connects her to Dorothy in the film, and they can have a conversation with one another whenever they want to.

Black Mirror Plaything Ending Explained

In near-future London, an apparently homeless man breaks into a liquor store, who then call the cops to arrest him. Soon, the cops learn that he is wanted for murder charges and immediately arrest him. As they start to question his motives and the identity of the victim who was found stuffed inside a suitcase in pieces, Cameron starts to tell them a curious story that slowly unravels into full-blown insanity.

In the 1990s, Cameron was a shy, awkward and introverted game reviewer working for a newspaper. One day, he was given a game called Thronglets, which has no endgame and no conflict. He only has to take care of virtual pets that will multiply over and over again. Curious, Cameron takes the game home and starts to play, finding taking care of these cute little pets rewarding in a very wholesome way.

Unfortunately, lonely and without any friends, he one day does some LSD with a “friend” called Lump and then realises that he can understand what the Throngs are telling him. Overjoyed, he decides to stay on the drugs in order to interact with them and decides to make his gaming setup more elaborate in order to handle his growing colony. One day, however, he is forced to go to work to deliver a commitment, and when he comes back, he finds that Lump has destroyed his colony and killed almost all the Throngs.

In a fit of rage, he kills Lump and then stuffs his body in the suitcase and as a way to make up for his oversight, dedicates his life to the Throng. In the present, the police grow impatient of his wild story and ask him for Lump’s real name. He, in turn, insists on getting a pen and paper, and showing them the socket that he has put in the back of his head to let the Throngs plug in to his brain and understand human beings further. The police agree to his request, hoping for his cooperation in return, but he draws a code created by the Throng and shows it to the surveillance camera, which immediately uploads it to the internet.

In the last scene, we see an emergency announcement going off in all the speakers around them and the phones restarting. Soon, a high-pitched sound emanates from all the speakers around them that knocks everyone to the ground as if they are having a seizure, and the only person not affected by it is Cameron. The last scene showcases him holding his hand out to one of the police officers as he rejoices for reaching his goal.

Black Mirror Eulogy Ending Explained

The fifth episode of Black Mirror Season 7 showcases an aging and grumpy man getting the news of an old acquaintance passing away, and hoping that they will have some memories to share at the funeral. However, there’s a catch — it’s a new-age technology that can catch the person’s memories in real time and bring them to life. Basically, users can step into an old photograph and literally relive those old memories once again.

When Phillip receives the kit, he starts to go through his old photographs to jog Carol’s memories to life. Throughout the episode, Phillip and the Guide go through various moments in his romantic relationship with Carol, which had its ups and downs. As they get deeper and deeper into the fights and toxic moments, it becomes increasingly apparent that the Guide is invested in the story more than usual, and she eventually tells him that she is Carol’s daughter. Phillip is left emotional, having realised that his alcohol-induced rage left him unable to see Carol’s feelings and turned him bitter because he was too angry to find the note that she had left for him.

In the last scene, Phillip physically attends Carol’s funeral and finds the real-life “Guide” there playing the cello, just like her mother. The two acknowledge each other with a smile.

Black Mirror USS Callister: Into Infinity Ending Explained

In the sequel to season 4’s USS Callister, Nanette, inside the game, and her crew are fighting for their lives against 30 million players after Robert Daly’s death left them stranded in the game. In the real world, Walton has taken over the company and is coming to terms with the fact that Daly might have clones inside the game, which might put him and the company in jeopardy. As the news of the “bandits” starts to make a wave, Nanette helps Walton find the clones and helps them get out of the game.

Unfortunately, Walton decides to take a more unethical route and tries to kill the clones in the game and is swiftly kicked off. The game, Nanette and team decide to go to the heart of the game to find a way out and find out that Walton had cloned Daly at the start of their company and kept him enclosed in the heart of the game to keep making infinite universes as a slave. Hopeful that Daly will get them out, Nanette goes to meet game Daly while Walton wages war against the clones from the outside.

Unfortunately, things take an even darker turn when Daly agrees to help Nanette but refuses to let her go, telling her that she has to stay with him for her crew’s freedom. Nanette and Daly get into a fight, which results in her killing him, triggering the game to be deleted. But just before that, she puts the floppy disk into the computer that ensues their freedom, and Nanette is then transported into her real body, fusing their consciousness, with the other crew members trapped in her mind. Walton faces the consequences of his actions as well after the truth comes to light and he is arrested. In the last scene, Nanette and the others have a conversation while watching their favourite reality TV show as she tries to figure out a way to get them out into the real world.

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