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Black Mirror's Bandersnatch: Charlie Brooker's meta masterpiece

The interactive episode has breathed new life into the anthology show, with a choose-your-own-adventure element that puts viewers in the driving seat

  • Spoiler alert: this blog contains mild spoilers for Bandersnatch

Charlie Brooker has ruined television. The TV landscape is already so absurdly cluttered that people rarely watch the same shows as each other any more. But now there’s an interactive Black Mirror, Bandersnatch, that unfolds according to the viewer’s wishes. You know what this means? It means that we aren’t even watching the same episode as each other, even when we’re literally watching the same episode as each other. Thanks a lot.

Interactive narratives aren’t exactly new. John Hurt made an interactive erotic thriller called Tender Loving Care almost 20 years ago, and more recently Netflix experimented with an interactive Puss In Boots episode, but there’s something fitting about Black Mirror being the show that shoves the form into the mainstream.

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