This article is why some TV showrunners reject Easter eggs.

Thankfully, Black Mirror creator

Charlie Brooker hasn’t fully learned to guard himself from internet exaggerators and fabulists
like myself yet. Brooker created an anthology series in which each episode features different
casts, settings, and presumably universes. Then because he’s a creative and thoughtful artist,
Brooker also sprinkled in some Easter Eggs into early Black Mirror episodes. Nothing major - a
reference to Prime Minster David Carrow here, a Waldo bumper sticker there - it was just all in
good fun.

But that doesn’t mean that all these episodes occur in the same universe, right? That would be
insane. Right? Well prior to season two’s Christmas special “White Christmas,” Brooker
apparently agreed. While describing why a particular song (Irma Thomas’s “Anyone Who
Knows What Love Is”) appears in multiple supposedly unrelated episodes, Brooker said:

“We had the Irma Thomas song come back in because it does sort of nest the whole thing
together in some kind of artistic universe, to sound wanky for a moment. So it is deliberate, but
it’s not part of some grand unveiling that this is all set in the year 2030 or something.”

Entirely reasonable. But then season four happened. Black Mirror’s recently released season
four drops more Easter eggs than the Easter bunny on acid. Its finale, “Black Museum,”
seemingly exists in part just to tie together any loose threads from previous episodes, ensuring
once and for all that this all takes place in one incredibly fucked up universe.

further reading: Black Mirror - Ranking Every Episode

“It does actually now seem to imply that it is all a shared universe,” Brooker told DigitalSpy,
before adding that that wasn’t always the plan.

Clearly it was not. Because the Black Mirror timeline, in the now canonized Extended Black
Mirror Televised Universe (TM) is bonkers. Like really bonkers. I know we all like to say how
our own reality has gotten pretty weird as of late but it has a ways to go to catch up with the
craziness happening in the Black Mirror version.

What follows is the ultimate test of TV viewing art meets TV viewing science. We will combine
everything we know about the Black Mirror timeline as revealed by Easter Eggs within episodes
and then add in some theorizing and improvisation to establish the Official People’s History of
Black Mirror Universe.

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/black-mirror/269963/black-mirror-shared-universe-timeline

Keanu Reeves - the much-beloved star of The Matrix, John Wick, and Bill & Ted - has signed
up to appear in a game called Cyberpunk 2077. He'll play a character named Johnny Silverhand.
If you're a fan of Reeves but don't know much about the game, you've come to the right place for
some attempted answers.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an upcoming game for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It was developed by CD
Projekt Red, the makers of The Witcher video game series. It's the sequel to a table-top RPG
called Cyberpunk 2020, which was published by R Talsorian Games in 1988. As you might have
guessed from the titles, Cyberpunk 2077 is set 57 years after Cyberpunk 2020.

The character that Reeves is playing, Johnny Silverhand, appears in both the table-top game and
the upcoming video game. So let's have a look at what happened in the classic game, how
Reeves' role in the new game was revealed, and what this could mean...

Johnny Silverhand's Backstory

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/cyberpunk-2077/281630/keanu-reeves-in-cyberpunk-2077-
who-is-johnny-silverhand