So what’s it going to be, folks: Sugar Puffs or Frosted Flakes?
That’s the first choice you have to make in Bandersnatch, the Black Mirror stand-alone “event” — basically a movie, possibly the show’s fifth season en toto — that dropped 11th-hour–ishly into Netflix queues at the beginning of the weekend. It’s an innocuous decision, really: A British video-game nut named Stefan (Fionn Whitehead) wakes up one July morning in 1984, pads down the stairs and joins his dad (Craig Parkinson) at the breakfast table. The young man is going to pitch Tuckersoft,...
That’s the first choice you have to make in Bandersnatch, the Black Mirror stand-alone “event” — basically a movie, possibly the show’s fifth season en toto — that dropped 11th-hour–ishly into Netflix queues at the beginning of the weekend. It’s an innocuous decision, really: A British video-game nut named Stefan (Fionn Whitehead) wakes up one July morning in 1984, pads down the stairs and joins his dad (Craig Parkinson) at the breakfast table. The young man is going to pitch Tuckersoft,...
- 12/30/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Netflix's first adult-oriented interactive film is a mind-bending choose-your-own-adventure story.
Are you ready to press play on Netflix’s worst kept secret? For months, we’ve heard that Netflix and the minds behind Black Mirror were hard at work on a choose-your-own-adventure story as part of the upcoming fifth season. Rumors swirled that the entry would be a standalone film. Intentional or not, the December 28th release date leaked through Netflix press materials. Still nothing was officially confirmed until December 27th, when Netflix told everyone to “relax” and dropped the official trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Neither a Christmas special nor Black Mirror season 5 premiere, Bandersnatch introduces itself as a Netflix Interactive Film. For an optimal viewing experience, a pre-title sequence video instructs viewers to keep the remote control in hand. At key moments and seemingly mundane ones, two options will appear on screen and...
Are you ready to press play on Netflix’s worst kept secret? For months, we’ve heard that Netflix and the minds behind Black Mirror were hard at work on a choose-your-own-adventure story as part of the upcoming fifth season. Rumors swirled that the entry would be a standalone film. Intentional or not, the December 28th release date leaked through Netflix press materials. Still nothing was officially confirmed until December 27th, when Netflix told everyone to “relax” and dropped the official trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Neither a Christmas special nor Black Mirror season 5 premiere, Bandersnatch introduces itself as a Netflix Interactive Film. For an optimal viewing experience, a pre-title sequence video instructs viewers to keep the remote control in hand. At key moments and seemingly mundane ones, two options will appear on screen and...
- 12/28/2018
- Den of Geek
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