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Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie
"Hotel Reverie" is the third episode in the seventh series of the British science fiction anthology television series Black Mirror. Written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and directed by Haolu … Wikipedia
Ratings
6.7 / 10.0
IMDb
31.8K votes
Factsheet
" Hotel Reverie " Black Mirror episode
Episode no. Series 7
Episode 3
Directed by Haolu Wang
Factsheet
" Hotel Reverie " Black Mirror episode
Episode no. Series 7
Episode 3
Directed by Haolu Wang
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Wikipedia
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Hotel Reverie - Wikipedia
November 3, 2025 - In the present, A-list actor Brandy Friday is invited by entertainment technology company ReDream to star in a high-tech remake of a Keyworth Pictures classic, the 1940s romance film Hotel Reverie. She only takes the role on the condition that she will play a gender-swapped version of Dr.
Discussions

Black Mirror [Episode Discussion] - S07E03 - Hotel Reverie
Everything inside the VR system I really liked, such a moving story. Being stuck for weeks if not months in a frozen hotel would have been insane but they had each other. Then being ripped back and expected to carry on like nothing happened. Brutal! Everything outside the system I hated. All the staff sucked, there is no way they would only get one take, a studio even one in so much debt would be able to get a room for the whole day, not just two random hours to time crunch them. They really expected an actress to memorize every single line for a main roll and nail it on the first go in like one day or a handful of days. It is like the script was written by someone who knows nothing about theatre or film making. More on reddit.com
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Black Mirror - 7x03 - “Hotel Reverie” - Episode Discussion
The plot was nonsense, but the feelings it illicited were great. We have the technology now to put people in scenes they were never really in. Secondly, why would anyone want to remake the exact same movie, with only one character being changed. It is just such a weird concept to begin with. Albiet, because of the events that took place, it did end up being it's own thing, but that wasn't the intended goal. Still, even with a very weak plot device (imo), the tragic love story it was able to deliver was quite good. More on reddit.com
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Hotel reverie
I thought it was a good episode but Issa Rae's acting was mostly terrible. The end scene in the sim was pretty good. Otherwise it was bad. More on reddit.com
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who else cried like a baby watching hotel reverie?
Just watched it. Oh my heart! More on reddit.com
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IMDb
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"Black Mirror" Hotel Reverie (TV Episode 2025) ⭐ 6.7 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
April 10, 2025 - A high-tech, unusually immersive remake of a vintage British film sends Hollywood A-list star Brandy Friday into another dimension, where she must stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home.
Rating: 6.7/10 ​ - ​ 31.8K votes
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Netflix Tudum
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Black Mirror 'Hotel Reverie' Ending Explained: Issa Rae and Emma Corrin - Netflix Tudum
April 14, 2025 - Brandy jumps at the chance to lead a new version of her favorite film, Hotel Reverie, which finds her playing the gender-swapped hero Alex Palmer. The movie also stars her favorite actress, Dorothy Chambers (Emma Corrin), as her love interest, Clara.
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Letterboxd
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Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie (2025)
Hollywood A-list actor Brandy Friday is thrown into an unusually immersive high-tech remake of a vintage romantic movie. She’s got to stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home.
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Fandom
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Hotel Reverie (film) | Black Mirror Wiki | Fandom
October 29, 2024 - Hotel Reverie is a 1949 British-American film produced by Keyworth Productions. It is the main focus of the synonymous episode Hotel Reverie. Set during the 1940s in British Egypt, the film focuses on the burgeoning romance between Dr.
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Autostraddle
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Black Mirror's Hotel Reverie Isn't Worth Its Queer Romance | Autostraddle
April 15, 2025 - We then meet our protagonist Brandy Friday (Issa Rae), an A-list actress in the near-future who is tired of playing the love interest for “one of the Ryans.” She wants to be in real movies like the classics she adores — movies like Casablanca, Brief Encounter, and, yes, Hotel Reverie.
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TV Obsessive
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Black Mirror S7E3 Recap: “Hotel Reverie” --- Not a Dry Eye in the House | TV Obsessive
April 14, 2025 - The people on the outside are back in Brandy’s ear and they want to restore the movie to the last save state. Brandy tries to explain that Clara knows who she is, and they’ve been living out a life together. Kimmy, thinking she is reassuring her star, says not to worry, Clara won’t remember anything that happened. Too stunned to stop it, Brandy is yanked back to when Clara and Alex Palmer first kiss back in Clara’s hotel suite.
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Hollywood Reporter
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Black Mirror's Hotel Reverie Ending: Issa Rae, Awkwafina and Director
April 15, 2025 - It feels like the whole world has stopped moving, and it’s just two of you together. Awkwafina runs the control room as Kimmy, the head of AI company Redream. Courtesy of Netflix · While “Joan is Awful” explores what Wang calls the “nightmare dimensions” of AI, “Hotel Reverie” offers a look at what happens when people with good intent consent to its use, even if it poses very real dangers.
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Medium
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Black Mirror Season 7 | Hotel Reverie Review | by The Review Room | Medium
May 8, 2025 - There is a scene after Brandy exposes they’re in a movie where Dorothy tries to find a way out of the film and ends up in this kind of black void. As she touches her face and looks around she begins to see glimpses of the real Dorothy Chambers’ life while making the original Hotel Reverie.
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TheWrap
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'Black Mirror' Creator, Stars Break Down 'Hotel Reverie' Love Story and AI Ethics
April 12, 2025 - In “Black Mirror’s” “Hotel Reverie,” Hollywood A-list actress Brandy Friday (Issa Rae) is thrust into a classic romance movie, kickstarting a love story between her and one of the film’s AI-generated characters, played by a star ...
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The Tab
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Black Mirror’s Hotel Reverie has been a hit but this annoying plot hole is driving me mad
April 14, 2025 - In Hotel Reverie, that’s Redream, a device that enables the user to jump into a specially designed dimension. “Redream is a system we’re using. It ingests a movie and all of the surrounding material: Screenplay, casting materials, daily, audition reals, all of it,” Kimmy explained to Brandy.
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Letterboxd
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A ★★½ review of Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie (2025)
April 10, 2025 - It's the kind of detail older Black Mirror used to get right. And on the topic of that YouTube part, the Hotel Reverie movie is said to have come out in 1941, but the actress had a screen test that was done in 1949?)
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Medium
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Black Mirror, 7x3: ‘Hotel Reverie’ — cinematic A.I. love story is a well-acted but sloppy entry | by Robert English | Frame Rated | Medium
April 18, 2025 - That’s what brings ambitious star Brandy Friday (Issa Rae) to Redream’s remake of Hotel Reverie, a 1940s classic love story in the vein of Casablanca (1942) and Brief Encounter (1945).
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South China Morning Post
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How was Black Mirror’s Hotel Reverie made? Director Haolu Wang on AI, love of old films | South China Morning Post
April 27, 2025 - In the episode, Issa Rae plays Brandy Friday, a modern-day actress invited by director Kimmy (Awkwafina) and cash-strapped studio head Judith Keyworth (Harriet Walter) to appear in a remake of Hotel Reverie, a black-and-white movie from the 1940s, ...
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Moviedelic
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Black Mirror: Is Hotel Reverie a Real Movie? Is Keyworth Pictures a Real Studio? Is Dorothy Chambers Based on a Real Actress?
April 15, 2025 - One of the more unexpected of these ... called ‘Hotel Reverie’ made by Keyworth Pictures, stars an actress called Dorothy Chambers, who met a tragic end in real life....
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People
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'Black Mirror' Season 7, Episode 3 Ending Explained: Do Brandy and Dorothy End Up Together in 'Hotel Reverie'?
April 17, 2025 - Issa Rae plays modern-day actress Brandy Friday, who, thanks to a new technology called Redream, is transported into the 1949 black-and-white film Hotel Reverie, playing a gender-swapped version of the lead character, Dr. Alex Palmer. Emma Corrin stars opposite Rae as 1940s actress Dorothy Chambers, who portrays Clara in the movie.
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Radio Times
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Black Mirror's Hotel Reverie started as a horror story – Charlie Brooker reveals what changed his mind
The new Hotel Reverie episode boasts the likes of Issa Rae and Emma Corrin in the lead roles, following Hollywood actor Brandy Friday (Rae), who is given the acting opportunity of a lifetime to star in a remake of a vintage romantic movie.
Published   April 9, 2025
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Mashable
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'Black Mirror' Season 7: 'Hotel Reverie,' explained | Mashable
April 10, 2025 - Issa Rae stars as A-list actor Brandy Friday, who's signed on to star in a remake of the vintage British film Hotel Reverie. There's just one catch: This isn't a normal movie shoot.
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MUBI
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Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie (2025) | MUBI
A high-tech, unusually immersive remake of a vintage British film sends Hollywood A-list star Brandy Friday into another dimension, where she must stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home.