This features the song 'Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)' - a long-running Black Mirror Easter egg. The track was originally heard in Fifteen Million Merits (2011) when Abi Khan sings it in the bathroom, but has gone on to feature across every Black Mirror season,--Season 2's White Christmas (2014), Season 3's Men Against Fire (2016), Season 4's Crocodile (2017), and Season 5'sRachel, Jack and Ashley Too (2019)--and can be heard in this episode when Joan walks into a bar to meet Mac.
When Mac is scrolling on his phone while he's sitting on the toilet, he scrolls past a tweet from Lacie Pound. Lacie Pound is the main character of Nosedive (2016).
On the streaming service, Streamberry, featured heavily in the episode, there are numerous references to other Black Mirror episodes such as 'The Callow Years' - referencing Black Mirror (2011), 'Finding Ritman' - a reference to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018), 'Hot Shots' - a show featured within the show on Fifteen Million Merits (2011), 'Junipero Rising' - a reference to San Junipero (2016) , 'Loch Henry' refers to Loch Henry (2023), 'Space Fleet' refers to USS Callister (2017). and Miley Cyrus' face is featured on an unnamed show, possibly a reference to Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too (2019). Furthermore, 'Smithereens' is the name of one of Sandy's app when she is in the bar, referring to Smithereens (2019).
In a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ally Pankiw spoke about how she came to direct the episode and what ideas she brought to it: 'When I got the call that they were going to send me a Black Mirror script, I was like, "I can't do spooky things, so I don't know why they would." And they were like, "No, it's a comedy - a female-driven comedy episode. So they're looking for a female comedy director."
'Charlie Brooker was super collaborative. We got on the phone, and I was like, "It's about consent and how we consume women and pop culture." And he was like, "Oh yeah, I also thought it was weird how you don't know what you're signing." (Laughs.) So it was fun to build in all these layers with him and get to build out the world of these female relationships. I wanted to bring a lot of that to it, sort of how we consume women as other women. He was very open and collaborative to that feminist lens that I thought was an undercurrent in it.'