

The soundtrack interweaves 1980s songs with an original score by Clint Mansell.

Filming took place in London and Cape Town across a few weeks. The first script was about a heterosexual couple and had an unhappy ending the final version was about a same-sex couple and had a happy ending. "San Junipero" was the first episode written for series three of Black Mirror initial drafts were based on nostalgia therapy and designed as a 1980s period piece. The town is part of a simulated reality the elderly can inhabit, even after death. The episode is set in a beach resort town named San Junipero, where the introverted Yorkie ( Mackenzie Davis) meets the more outgoing Kelly ( Gugu Mbatha-Raw).
