Who are you?! Who am I?!
- The idea in Be Right Back, that one could reconstruct the dead from their social media, is pretty sinister even before it Goes Horribly Wrong. Even though the synthetic Ash tries to please and be a nice guy, it's still creepy as all hell.
- White Bear. Oh god, White Bear.
- Imagine waking up with complete amnesia in a strange house. You don't even know who you really are. You see things though — photos of you, a symbol on the TV, a calendar with every day crossed off — things that aren't right. And then you leave the house, only to find people who don't respond, who only watch. And then, the masked people show up...
- The ending. Basically, the events of the episode have been repeated for a long, long time; weeks, maybe even months. Victoria has been having her memories erased over and over again, going through the same tortures.
- As Victoria shrieks in utter agony while having her mind wiped, the park employees casually go about restoring the 'stage' of the house she wakes up in each morning, before leaving her upstairs and still screaming. And remember; the viewer only has to watch for about a minute. The process takes roughly half an hour.
- The end credits are also rather unnerving in the way that it shows how everyone treats their punishment of Victoria as though it was the most normal thing in the world and talk about her like she's barely human, treating a day to see her like she was an animal in the zoo or her unimaginable torment was just an amusement park ride. Basil comes across like a summer camp counsellor in the way that he encourages people to enjoy it as much as they can and Jem treats it like any other work. It shows how easy to is for normal people to get sucked into mob mentality.
- Not to mention the fact that you find out that everything you've been put through the entire day was all a lie and that in reality, you assisted in the kidnap, torture, and murder of the child you've spent the day thinking was yours. Essentially, you're being punished for a crime you don't even remember committing and are forced to listen to people literally calling for your blood... before waking up the next morning having no clue who or where you are. And the whole thing begins again.
- The Waldo Moment: The ending of the episode suggests that Waldo has become the figurehead for a badly-run, barking mad tyranny of the majority that is spreading across the globe and subverting traditional democratic systems. Jamie himself is reduced to a bitter alcoholic, and gets savagely beaten by the police for throwing a bottle at a Waldo display.
- Perhaps the most unnerving thing about this episode is that despite the absurdity of the premise, the western world is currently engulfed in a crisis of political cynicism that has seen several electoral upsets. According to Word of God, Waldo is based on Boris Johnson, a British politician often accused of putting on a character for his electoral advantage... and he was actually elected Prime Minister in 2019!
