Trivia / Black Mirror: Joan is Awful

• Reality Subtext: The episode premiered in the middle of a long-standing strike by the Writer’s Guild of America, which protests unfair wages given to writers in the era of AI-generated content, and barely a month before a strike was declared by the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, who are particularly concerned about being pressured into signing over rights to their physical likenesses and voices in perpetuity. Talk about timing.